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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Cosmos
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1984
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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A Brief History of Time
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 561,105 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,240,715 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 580,325 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 851,188 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,280,451 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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The Secret Garden
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,012,724 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 40,747 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 191,536 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 94,534 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,291 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 726,156 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 244,184 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 29,700 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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Lisa Kaltenegger (Goodreads Author)
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 7,203 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 170,639 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 121,030 ratings
score: 370,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,300,808 ratings
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
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4.15 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 334,419 ratings
score: 350,
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,608,456 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 17,024 ratings
score: 334,
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
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James Graham Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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Snapshot Systems (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
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Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,676 ratings
score: 293,
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 32,151 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Margalit Fox (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,692 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,609,300 ratings
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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
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4.23 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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Ideas and Opinions
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4.12 avg rating — 3,321 ratings
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Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 58,675 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,242 ratings
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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3.88 avg rating — 348,598 ratings
score: 278,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 868,225 ratings
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 222,995 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,148 ratings
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,456,978 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 302,858 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,466,081 ratings
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 457,728 ratings
score: 260,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,793,255 ratings
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Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
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4.02 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 611,733 ratings
score: 256,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 384,372 ratings
score: 255,
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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Richard P. Feynman (Contibutor)
4.27 avg rating — 216,365 ratings
score: 254,
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 867,390 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 379,430 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,785,616 ratings
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The Neverending Story
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4.18 avg rating — 219,364 ratings
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Darwinia
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3.38 avg rating — 4,191 ratings
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Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic
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3.89 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
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4.06 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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Connections
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4.25 avg rating — 2,488 ratings
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Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 94,109 ratings
score: 192,
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The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
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4.18 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
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Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 49,760 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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4.06 avg rating — 34,361 ratings
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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4.19 avg rating — 11,830 ratings
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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
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The Idiot
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4.21 avg rating — 214,202 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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Les Miserables (Classics Illustrated #9)
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Rolland H. Livingstone (Adapter)
4.28 avg rating — 5,050 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Cleopatra: A Life
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Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 122,730 ratings
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
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4.08 avg rating — 15,470 ratings
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
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The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 34,688 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 55,932 ratings
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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3.90 avg rating — 26,602 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
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3.87 avg rating — 30,712 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 74,532 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 43,902 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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Rainbows End
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Spin (Spin, #1)
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,965 ratings
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Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
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Glasshouse
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
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Anthem
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Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Jon Gertner (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 8,779 ratings
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
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The Chronicles of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-5)
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
