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Room
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 828,694 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Road
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Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 3,387,843 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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4.16 avg rating — 49,009 ratings
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The Swimmer
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4.04 avg rating — 5,450 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,791,088 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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Saturday
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 72,918 ratings
score: 237,
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NW
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3.48 avg rating — 44,824 ratings
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Cloud Atlas
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4.01 avg rating — 264,533 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,691,834 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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3.98 avg rating — 115,571 ratings
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The Good Mother
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3.82 avg rating — 11,890 ratings
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Caleb's Crossing
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 71,376 ratings
score: 183,
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 90,967 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 168,967 ratings
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The Original of Laura
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3.32 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,828,072 ratings
score: 150,
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Independence Day (Frank Bascombe, #2)
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3.86 avg rating — 16,690 ratings
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The Emperor's Children
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2.98 avg rating — 21,428 ratings
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Everyman
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3.62 avg rating — 21,238 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Arcadia
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Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 26,086 ratings
score: 100,
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How Should a Person Be?
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Sheila Heti (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 16,822 ratings
score: 95,
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Tenth of December
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3.98 avg rating — 80,709 ratings
score: 94,
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Capital
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3.71 avg rating — 14,615 ratings
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Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
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E.L. James (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 2,825,100 ratings
score: 92,
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 35,225 ratings
score: 91,
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This Beautiful Life
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Helen Schulman (Goodreads Author)
3.03 avg rating — 6,291 ratings
score: 90,
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The Submission
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Amy Waldman (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 12,693 ratings
score: 88,
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 246,234 ratings
score: 87,
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 93,488 ratings
score: 83,
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Swamplandia!
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Karen Russell (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 59,722 ratings
score: 82,
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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Amy Chua (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 53,869 ratings
score: 80,
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Lord of Misrule (National Book Award)
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3.36 avg rating — 3,088 ratings
score: 79,
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Remainder
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3.67 avg rating — 8,407 ratings
score: 78,
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Super Sad True Love Story
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Gary Shteyngart (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 41,609 ratings
score: 77,
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The Imperfectionists
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Tom Rachman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 50,246 ratings
score: 76,
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Imperial Bedrooms
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3.20 avg rating — 20,615 ratings
score: 75,
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
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David Shields (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 2,695 ratings
score: 74,
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White Noise
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3.86 avg rating — 124,958 ratings
score: 71,
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Lit
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3.94 avg rating — 28,092 ratings
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A Small, Good Thing
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4.01 avg rating — 688 ratings
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The Anthologist (The Paul Chowder Chronicles #1)
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Nicholson Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
score: 67,
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Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
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3.95 avg rating — 1,820 ratings
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Atmospheric Disturbances
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3.19 avg rating — 4,284 ratings
score: 62,
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Infinite Jest
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4.25 avg rating — 99,660 ratings
score: 61,
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Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
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3.59 avg rating — 62,890 ratings
score: 60,
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The Night of the Gun
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3.82 avg rating — 7,430 ratings
score: 58,
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American Wife
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Curtis Sittenfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 64,740 ratings
score: 57,
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Netherland
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3.41 avg rating — 18,685 ratings
score: 55,
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 915,120 ratings
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Beautiful Children
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2.90 avg rating — 2,013 ratings
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All the King's Men
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4.09 avg rating — 66,110 ratings
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Tree of Smoke
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3.60 avg rating — 15,043 ratings
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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Barack Obama (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 168,968 ratings
score: 49,
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The House of Mirth
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3.97 avg rating — 104,430 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 209,422 ratings
score: 44,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 481,523 ratings
score: 43,
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A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century
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3.58 avg rating — 178 ratings
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