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Books that must be read over and over throughout one's life, that must be physically carried from one home to the next, that lift a reader out of their own existence and teach soul/heartfelt truths
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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Words are our Sorcery
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Magic America
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C.E. Medford (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 743,758 ratings
score: 861,
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You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You?
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 196 ratings
score: 793,
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Acclamation (Acclamation, #1)
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Vee Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 454 ratings
score: 696,
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Reclamation (Acclamation #2)
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Vee Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 255 ratings
score: 594,
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 822,820 ratings
score: 562,
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 211,987 ratings
score: 554,
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 501,962 ratings
score: 496,
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Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1)
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Ais (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 5,298 ratings
score: 495,
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,763,282 ratings
score: 492,
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Sublimation (Acclamation #3.5)
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Vee Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 160 ratings
score: 492,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,284,732 ratings
score: 487,
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 640,013 ratings
score: 485,
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 709,984 ratings
score: 482,
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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 — 2,363,526 ratings
score: 478,
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 229,382 ratings
score: 467,
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The Red Tent
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Anita Diamant (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 627,342 ratings
score: 464,
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The House of the Spirits
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 311,268 ratings
score: 462,
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Madeline
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4.26 avg rating — 217,919 ratings
score: 427,
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,084,530 ratings
score: 385,
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,801,888 ratings
score: 384,
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Shutter Island
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 220,555 ratings
score: 368,
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 706,043 ratings
score: 335,
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4 people voted
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The Raven
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4.29 avg rating — 165,798 ratings
score: 286,
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The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
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3.89 avg rating — 37,835 ratings
score: 282,
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3 people voted
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,436,061 ratings
score: 280,
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 274,815 ratings
score: 263,
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The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 747,610 ratings
score: 254,
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Contact
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4.15 avg rating — 151,066 ratings
score: 252,
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Katherine
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4.21 avg rating — 35,398 ratings
score: 249,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 864,074 ratings
score: 244,
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Madeline's Rescue
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4.24 avg rating — 29,683 ratings
score: 242,
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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 362,747 ratings
score: 241,
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The Story of Ferdinand
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4.37 avg rating — 94,066 ratings
score: 240,
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,120,395 ratings
score: 229,
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Make Way for Ducklings
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4.25 avg rating — 90,633 ratings
score: 226,
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,340,594 ratings
score: 225,
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Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
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3.75 avg rating — 1,849,051 ratings
score: 212,
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3 people voted
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The Beach
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3.99 avg rating — 95,936 ratings
score: 198,
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 7,196,360 ratings
score: 195,
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
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4.11 avg rating — 92,838 ratings
score: 194,
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Intimation (Acclamation #3)
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Vee Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 184 ratings
score: 194,
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Jassy
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4.01 avg rating — 356 ratings
score: 191,
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 850,136 ratings
score: 188,
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings
score: 187,
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Jitterbug Perfume
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4.23 avg rating — 80,186 ratings
score: 186,
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Undead and Unwed (Undead, #1)
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MaryJanice Davidson (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 57,744 ratings
score: 185,
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2 people voted
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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4.30 avg rating — 574,116 ratings
score: 184,
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The Poisonwood Bible
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4.11 avg rating — 785,951 ratings
score: 181,
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The Moonstone
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3.91 avg rating — 97,992 ratings
score: 178,
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The Cider House Rules
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 193,938 ratings
score: 178,
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Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)
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E.L. James (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 967,076 ratings
score: 178,
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 818,006 ratings
score: 176,
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Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
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E.L. James (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 906,625 ratings
score: 176,
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The House on the Strand
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3.83 avg rating — 14,457 ratings
score: 169,
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 390,904 ratings
score: 162,
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 343,467 ratings
score: 160,
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,276,600 ratings
score: 156,
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The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
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4.51 avg rating — 215,429 ratings
score: 148,
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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3.51 avg rating — 674,614 ratings
score: 147,
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,002,924 ratings
score: 147,
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The Wicked Day (Arthurian Saga, #4)
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4.10 avg rating — 11,957 ratings
score: 146,
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The Source
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4.30 avg rating — 45,237 ratings
score: 142,
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The Miracle Worker: A Play
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4.19 avg rating — 35,183 ratings
score: 130,
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Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 57,350 ratings
score: 127,
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Savage Run (Joe Pickett, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 35,833 ratings
score: 125,
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New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
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3.61 avg rating — 2,098,314 ratings
score: 108,
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Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
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3.74 avg rating — 1,966,575 ratings
score: 106,
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The Drifters
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4.06 avg rating — 8,593 ratings
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Parley After Life - DIY Guide to Death and other Taxes
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Robby Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Ann Marie's Asylum (Master and Apprentice, #1)
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Christopher Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen's Land
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Paul Christensen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Bone Clocks
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3.85 avg rating — 99,818 ratings
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Little Women
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4.17 avg rating — 2,417,850 ratings
score: 99,
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Island
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3.85 avg rating — 35,418 ratings
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Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
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3.66 avg rating — 4,907 ratings
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 334,283 ratings
score: 98,
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,043,862 ratings
score: 98,
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Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5)
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Darynda Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 38,203 ratings
score: 98,
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A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 2,576,071 ratings
score: 97,
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Proclamation (Acclamation, #4)
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Vee Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 153 ratings
score: 96,
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Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1)
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Jeaniene Frost (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 163,893 ratings
score: 96,
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The Face In The Frost
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3.80 avg rating — 2,453 ratings
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Tinsel Fish (Tyack & Frayne #2)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,939 ratings
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Receiver of Many (Hades & Persephone, #1)
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Rachel Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 4,035 ratings
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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Winter's Tale
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3.51 avg rating — 29,295 ratings
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Don't Let Go (Tyack & Frayne #3)
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4.14 avg rating — 1,657 ratings
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Runaway: Stories
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3.97 avg rating — 27,594 ratings
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Goddess of Spring (Goddess Summoning, #2)
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P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 11,112 ratings
score: 94,
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The Fires of Spring
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3.92 avg rating — 1,406 ratings
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Once Upon a Haunted Moor (Tyack & Frayne #1)
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Addicted to Twilight: Confessions of a Twilight Mom
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Skinny Legs and All
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Scrap Metal
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4.02 avg rating — 3,795 ratings
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La Sainte Bible: Qui Comprend L' Ancien Et Le Nouveau Testament
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family, #1)
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Melissa de la Cruz (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 21,890 ratings
score: 92,
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.21 avg rating — 10,713 ratings
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