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Speak
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
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1984
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Animal Farm
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Crime and Punishment
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A Clockwork Orange
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Catch-22
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Consequences of Forever (Haven, #1)
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Kaitlyn Oruska (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 292 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 246,592 ratings
score: 296,
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,704,318 ratings
score: 291,
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The Samurai's Garden
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4.16 avg rating — 27,990 ratings
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Rogue Flag
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Robert Hrzic (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 122 ratings
score: 200,
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The Phantom Glare of Day: Three Novellas
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M. Laszlo (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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In the Country of Last Things
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3.91 avg rating — 15,711 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 316,542 ratings
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The Heart of a Girl
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Kaitlyn Oruska (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 160 ratings
score: 198,
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Go Ask Alice
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Beatrice Sparks (as "Anonymous")
3.74 avg rating — 290,172 ratings
score: 198,
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A Separate Peace
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3.60 avg rating — 230,582 ratings
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The Edge of Everything (Haven, #3)
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Kaitlyn Oruska (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 123 ratings
score: 196,
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,494,415 ratings
score: 196,
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,561,858 ratings
score: 196,
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We
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3.88 avg rating — 109,817 ratings
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Just Listen
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 250,169 ratings
score: 194,
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Not Collateral Damage
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Andrew James Pritchard (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 193,
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 634,407 ratings
score: 191,
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The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 201,145 ratings
score: 183,
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 830,543 ratings
score: 100,
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Forces From Within & Without
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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God Makes the Flowers Silent
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Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River
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Gary Hansen (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 975 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,148,793 ratings
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On the Beach
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3.98 avg rating — 48,828 ratings
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The Ark
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Annabel Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Those Who Believe
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Dead I Know
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3.81 avg rating — 1,484 ratings
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Tranquility
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Laurie Gardiner (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Birdbrain
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Virginia Arthur (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Before Life Happened (Before, #1)
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Isabel Curtis (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Picture Perfect
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 70,803 ratings
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The Burmese Girl and the Bangkok Madness (Burmese Revolutionary Days #1)
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Genghis Phone (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Progress (Progress, #1)
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Amalie Silver (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Solomon's Knife
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3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Filthy Radicals
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David Stokes (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,763,687 ratings
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Yellowface
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R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 959,676 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.66 avg rating — 139,375 ratings
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Don't Forget Steven
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Death Panels: A Novel of Life, Liberty and Faith
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Michelle Buckman (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 99,
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Secret Spiritual Behavior Mysteries: Unnerving Spiritual Behavior Discoveries
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 99,
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Ruby (Between the Cracks, #1)
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 124 ratings
score: 98,
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The Sacrifice of Tamar
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Naomi Ragen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 1,934 ratings
score: 98,
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The Bone Sparrow
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Zana Fraillon (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,613 ratings
score: 98,
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The Things They Carried
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4.14 avg rating — 340,350 ratings
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Fear and Loathing
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Deviation (Breaking the Pattern, #1)
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 97,
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One Prayer Away
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4.30 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Mahtab's Story
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3.57 avg rating — 426 ratings
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The Street King - A Silver City Tale
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3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Tattooed Teardrops (Tamara's Teardrops #1)
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Moon at Nine
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3.88 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
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Charnel House
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Andrew James Pritchard (Goodreads Author)
4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 95,
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,437,724 ratings
score: 95,
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Margaux with an X
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3.28 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Promising Azra
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Helen Thurloe (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 201 ratings
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To Revolt Is a People's Right
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Andrew James Pritchard (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 94,
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Quit It
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Marcia Byalick (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 162 ratings
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If You Could Be Mine
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3.70 avg rating — 10,321 ratings
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 433,259 ratings
score: 93,
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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3.75 avg rating — 24,147 ratings
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Festival of Lights
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Andrew James Pritchard (Goodreads Author)
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 92,
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Homeland (Little Brother, #2)
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 9,581 ratings
score: 92,
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Jasper Jones
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Craig Silvey (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 42,825 ratings
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Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 52,895 ratings
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Everything is Changed
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3.60 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1)
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Laurinda
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Alice Pung (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 4,652 ratings
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,831,128 ratings
score: 89,
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,343,883 ratings
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