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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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3.96 avg rating — 111,945 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 3,659,906 ratings
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,710,932 ratings
score: 187,
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,448,736 ratings
score: 185,
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Room
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 830,576 ratings
score: 182,
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 361,534 ratings
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Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)
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C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 10,866 ratings
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Put Them Through the Maze: The Secrets of How to Write the Ultimate Novel
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T.D. McMichael (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Demon of Brownsville Road: A Pittsburgh Family's Battle with Evil in Their Home
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3.21 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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The Shack
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3.84 avg rating — 687,674 ratings
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
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Siddhartha
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The Call of the Wild and White Fang
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4.03 avg rating — 205,199 ratings
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Less Than Zero
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3.60 avg rating — 97,503 ratings
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The Telling Pool
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David Clement-Davies (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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Paradise Lost
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3.85 avg rating — 180,199 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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3.79 avg rating — 44,083 ratings
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Anthem
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3.61 avg rating — 165,745 ratings
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
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3.77 avg rating — 36,412 ratings
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The Secret (The Secret, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 527,142 ratings
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The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 281,431 ratings
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American Psycho
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 211,608 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 184,979 ratings
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The Fountainhead
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3.89 avg rating — 335,799 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,999,220 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 379,019 ratings
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The Road
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30 books ·
8 voters ·
list created September 25th, 2012
by Franco Romualdez (votes) .
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Sep 25, 2012 03:41AM
There are such amazing books on this list, how can these books appear in "books to avoid" list. Some of the books here are my all time favorites. Please remove them from this list.
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