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101 Books to Read - Fiction
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Lost Boy
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4.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 703,792 ratings
score: 679,
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 833,654 ratings
score: 564,
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6 people voted
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,323,237 ratings
score: 548,
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The Taming of the Shrew
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3.74 avg rating — 178,833 ratings
score: 478,
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5 people voted
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,274,115 ratings
score: 474,
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5 people voted
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,400,323 ratings
score: 474,
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Oliver Twist
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3.88 avg rating — 421,448 ratings
score: 466,
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5 people voted
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 999,325 ratings
score: 465,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,280,281 ratings
score: 461,
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5 people voted
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,260,154 ratings
score: 363,
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4 people voted
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.99 avg rating — 313,042 ratings
score: 352,
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4 people voted
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 823,528 ratings
score: 337,
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4 people voted
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The Last Secret of The Soul: One boy. One Holocaust. One Survivor.
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Stephen P. Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 912,284 ratings
score: 285,
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3 people voted
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,486,081 ratings
score: 283,
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3 people voted
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,772,071 ratings
score: 278,
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3 people voted
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,745,249 ratings
score: 276,
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3 people voted
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,273,408 ratings
score: 275,
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3 people voted
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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3.92 avg rating — 240,235 ratings
score: 270,
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3 people voted
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 432,505 ratings
score: 267,
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3 people voted
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Cat’s Cradle
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4.15 avg rating — 430,446 ratings
score: 263,
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3 people voted
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 548,622 ratings
score: 257,
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3 people voted
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 605,927 ratings
score: 256,
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3 people voted
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,803,846 ratings
score: 253,
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3 people voted
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,444,934 ratings
score: 252,
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3 people voted
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 876,503 ratings
score: 246,
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3 people voted
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The Metamorphosis
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3.90 avg rating — 1,358,265 ratings
score: 242,
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3 people voted
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What Is the What
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4.15 avg rating — 86,707 ratings
score: 241,
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3 people voted
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,458,618 ratings
score: 237,
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3 people voted
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,078,546 ratings
score: 229,
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3 people voted
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The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 161,839 ratings
score: 228,
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3 people voted
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The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1)
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Matthew Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 42,529 ratings
score: 218,
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3 people voted
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Room
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 827,896 ratings
score: 217,
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3 people voted
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,423,102 ratings
score: 215,
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3 people voted
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 814,357 ratings
score: 206,
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3 people voted
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,734,055 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
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4.03 avg rating — 192,651 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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Fathers and Sons
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 98,648 ratings
score: 188,
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2 people voted
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 148,770 ratings
score: 178,
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2 people voted
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,769,779 ratings
score: 178,
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2 people voted
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Selected Tales
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4.16 avg rating — 7,452 ratings
score: 170,
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2 people voted
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Boot Camp
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Todd Strasser (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 6,007 ratings
score: 168,
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2 people voted
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 740,867 ratings
score: 166,
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2 people voted
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 719,811 ratings
score: 161,
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2 people voted
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The Collected Poems
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4.36 avg rating — 18,189 ratings
score: 153,
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2 people voted
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,980,361 ratings
score: 148,
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2 people voted
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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3.86 avg rating — 192,909 ratings
score: 140,
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2 people voted
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,575,890 ratings
score: 137,
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2 people voted
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The Plot Against America
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3.81 avg rating — 67,821 ratings
score: 137,
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2 people voted
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Unaccustomed Earth
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4.14 avg rating — 95,887 ratings
score: 137,
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2 people voted
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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3.97 avg rating — 42,175 ratings
score: 135,
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2 people voted
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If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
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Gayle Forman (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 958,494 ratings
score: 134,
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2 people voted
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Flight
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3.89 avg rating — 18,032 ratings
score: 132,
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2 people voted
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
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4.09 avg rating — 26,720 ratings
score: 110,
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2 people voted
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My Vietnam War
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E.E. Doc Murdock (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 632,246 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Rum Diary
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3.85 avg rating — 65,013 ratings
score: 66,
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1 person voted
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Nineteen Minutes
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 412,314 ratings
score: 64,
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1 person voted
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Half Brother
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Kenneth Oppel (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 6,630 ratings
score: 63,
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1 person voted
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 225,252 ratings
score: 62,
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1 person voted
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The Poisonwood Bible
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4.11 avg rating — 783,314 ratings
score: 60,
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1 person voted
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,455,532 ratings
score: 54,
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1 person voted
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American Born Chinese
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Gene Luen Yang (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 100,424 ratings
score: 52,
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1 person voted
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 226,173 ratings
score: 51,
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 367,799 ratings
score: 50,
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 245,726 ratings
score: 49,
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Feed
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3.55 avg rating — 67,246 ratings
score: 48,
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The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 95,774 ratings
score: 46,
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Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 62,250 ratings
score: 45,
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Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
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3.81 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
score: 43,
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Beastly (Beastly, #1)
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Alex Flinn (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 178,277 ratings
score: 41,
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Garth Stein (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 547,768 ratings
score: 40,
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Twisted
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 37,378 ratings
score: 39,
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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
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3.28 avg rating — 701 ratings
score: 38,
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Just Listen
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 250,006 ratings
score: 37,
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Gym Candy
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Carl Deuker (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 7,449 ratings
score: 36,
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Tyrell (Tyrell, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,055 ratings
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The First Part Last (Heaven, #2)
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3.97 avg rating — 15,816 ratings
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November Blues (Jericho, #2)
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Sharon M. Draper (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 4,092 ratings
score: 32,
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A lot of books on this list that don't belong. I removed some but more remain.
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