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Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults
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Jessica Pan (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,459 ratings
score: 300,
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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 — 2,351,472 ratings
score: 196,
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The Tempest
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3.78 avg rating — 223,691 ratings
score: 182,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,291,926 ratings
score: 177,
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I Capture the Castle
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3.99 avg rating — 113,830 ratings
score: 175,
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The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,468,868 ratings
score: 175,
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King Lear
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3.91 avg rating — 233,958 ratings
score: 165,
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
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Nina Sankovitch (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 7,320 ratings
score: 100,
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50 Things to Know Before Graduating from College- A Survival Guide To Life After College
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Lisa M. Rusczyk (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 100,
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I Thirst
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Second Treatise of Government
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3.78 avg rating — 23,764 ratings
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50 Yale Admission Success Stories: And the Essays That Made Them Happen
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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I Thirst (The Veritas Chronicles, #1)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Noah's Compass
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 14,444 ratings
score: 99,
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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4.10 avg rating — 701,790 ratings
score: 99,
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50 Successful Harvard Medical School Essays
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4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 99,
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The Rose and the Sword (The Veritas Chronicles, #2)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 99,
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The Death of Comedy
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3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 98,
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Tao Te Ching
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4.29 avg rating — 178,778 ratings
score: 98,
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Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 98,
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A Hunger Artist
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4.09 avg rating — 22,360 ratings
score: 97,
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 221,778 ratings
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In the Penal Colony
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3.93 avg rating — 31,591 ratings
score: 96,
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 58,091 ratings
score: 96,
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 381,474 ratings
score: 95,
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Meditations
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4.28 avg rating — 327,947 ratings
score: 95,
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,977,980 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Discourses and Selected Writings
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4.41 avg rating — 11,197 ratings
score: 94,
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,427,634 ratings
score: 93,
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,342,012 ratings
score: 93,
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 4,312,709 ratings
score: 92,
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 33,889 ratings
score: 92,
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Extreme God Chasers
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3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 91,
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I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
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4.50 avg rating — 1,698 ratings
score: 91,
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The God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul
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4.28 avg rating — 9,239 ratings
score: 90,
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
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Jocko Willink (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 97,043 ratings
score: 90,
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The Last Lecture
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4.26 avg rating — 360,550 ratings
score: 89,
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Bellocq's Ophelia
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4.28 avg rating — 837 ratings
score: 88,
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One Day
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3.87 avg rating — 403,014 ratings
score: 87,
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And Then There Were None
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4.28 avg rating — 1,563,279 ratings
score: 86,
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Wives and Daughters
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4.13 avg rating — 50,316 ratings
score: 85,
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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Jane Austen Addict, #1)
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Laurie Viera Rigler (Goodreads Author)
3.19 avg rating — 14,447 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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A Passage to India
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3.68 avg rating — 84,802 ratings
score: 82,
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Middlemarch
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4.03 avg rating — 176,275 ratings
score: 81,
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North and South
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4.15 avg rating — 180,684 ratings
score: 80,
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Prayer Takes Wings
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 79,
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I Am Legend and Other Stories
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score: 76,
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Aurora Leigh
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3.74 avg rating — 2,757 ratings
score: 74,
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The Woman in White
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4.01 avg rating — 163,590 ratings
score: 73,
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Love and Friendship
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3.48 avg rating — 778 ratings
score: 72,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 480,726 ratings
score: 71,
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Lady Susan
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3.66 avg rating — 51,352 ratings
score: 70,
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A Separate Peace
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3.60 avg rating — 230,268 ratings
score: 69,
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 606,621 ratings
score: 68,
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,039,979 ratings
score: 67,
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Ordering Your Private World
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4.20 avg rating — 5,363 ratings
score: 65,
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Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
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4.16 avg rating — 199,626 ratings
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How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator
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3.67 avg rating — 541 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,080,352 ratings
score: 62,
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Utopia
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3.55 avg rating — 81,272 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,517 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 913,624 ratings
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