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Someday Book Club Picks
If I were to start a book club, these are the books I would want to read.
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Prodigal Summer
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4.05 avg rating — 124,917 ratings
score: 287,
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3 people voted
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The Snow Child
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Eowyn Ivey (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 167,645 ratings
score: 198,
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In the Shadow of the Banyan
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Vaddey Ratner (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 21,789 ratings
score: 194,
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,172,030 ratings
score: 184,
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2 people voted
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,695,292 ratings
score: 182,
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 208,277 ratings
score: 174,
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Middlesex
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4.04 avg rating — 658,720 ratings
score: 172,
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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Sam Kean (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 10,669 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Fig Orchard
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Layla Fiske (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 353 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
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3.89 avg rating — 9,568 ratings
score: 99,
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The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1)
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Lyndsay Faye (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 16,566 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 3,378,460 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
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Matthew Dicks (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 35,572 ratings
score: 94,
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 854,565 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Imagine: How Creativity Works
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Jonah Lehrer (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 52,333 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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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: 91,
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 138,671 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Sarah's Key
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Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 491,216 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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The Known World
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3.84 avg rating — 44,534 ratings
score: 88,
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 251,104 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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Blindness
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4.18 avg rating — 328,119 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,346,476 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,273,412 ratings
score: 81,
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 797,614 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
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3.43 avg rating — 599 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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The Flight of Gemma Hardy
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Margot Livesey (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 16,098 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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The Chaperone
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Laura Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 63,857 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 379,774 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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Once Upon a River
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3.72 avg rating — 9,203 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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29 books ·
6 voters ·
list created November 1st, 2012
by Sarah Muths-Lee (votes) .
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