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The best novels you had the pleasure of discovering in 2009.
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,416,569 ratings
score: 689,
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 803,344 ratings
score: 596,
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6 people voted
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 979,921 ratings
score: 456,
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5 people voted
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Change of Heart
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 125,091 ratings
score: 399,
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4 people voted
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Wintergirls
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 125,452 ratings
score: 297,
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3 people voted
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Shutter Island
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 222,157 ratings
score: 297,
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3 people voted
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,045,169 ratings
score: 297,
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3 people voted
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Elsewhere
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Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 70,556 ratings
score: 293,
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3 people voted
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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 180,686 ratings
score: 267,
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3 people voted
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Kafka on the Shore
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4.12 avg rating — 540,506 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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A Fine Balance
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4.38 avg rating — 158,745 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,451,659 ratings
score: 197,
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The Last Question
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4.53 avg rating — 29,599 ratings
score: 197,
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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3.80 avg rating — 198,328 ratings
score: 197,
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The Rain Before It Falls
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Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 7,511 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Bloom
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Elizabeth Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 13,538 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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The Shining
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,680,042 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Death with Interruptions
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 72,867 ratings
score: 193,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,795,736 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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Darkness at Noon
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4.12 avg rating — 33,422 ratings
score: 190,
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.23 avg rating — 780,908 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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The Wasp Factory
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3.75 avg rating — 107,350 ratings
score: 185,
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Arcadia
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4.13 avg rating — 23,918 ratings
score: 179,
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The Fur Person
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4.19 avg rating — 3,009 ratings
score: 100,
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South of Broad
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3.87 avg rating — 50,533 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Engleby
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3.75 avg rating — 10,867 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Mound Hill Cemetery, the World Within
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William Swafford (Goodreads Author)
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Burn & Learn: Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era
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Eric Paul Shaffer (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Darkest Room (The Öland Quartet, #2)
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3.84 avg rating — 6,289 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Understand
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4.13 avg rating — 2,239 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Body Artist
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3.29 avg rating — 12,210 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Perfect You
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Elizabeth Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 21,969 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
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Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 122,245 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Notwithstanding
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3.81 avg rating — 2,809 ratings
score: 97,
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Along for the Ride
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 211,850 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)
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Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 51,342 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
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4.07 avg rating — 22,024 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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In the Woods
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Tana French (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 435,558 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Blaze
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)
3.77 avg rating — 55,291 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3)
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Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 42,086 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
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4.22 avg rating — 21,984 ratings
score: 94,
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Kiss Me Kill Me (Scarlett Wakefield, #1)
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3.53 avg rating — 4,202 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 418,620 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 9,173 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Lake of Darkness
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3.78 avg rating — 1,499 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 78,570 ratings
score: 93,
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The Nose
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Catherine Cowan (Retold by)
3.95 avg rating — 14,035 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Glass-Blowers
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3.71 avg rating — 3,110 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Caterpillars
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3.42 avg rating — 293 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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I, Elizabeth
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4.02 avg rating — 13,558 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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The Faerie Queene
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3.58 avg rating — 17,250 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Victory of Eagles (Temeraire, #5)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 28,432 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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The Mystery Of Charles Dickens
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4.12 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 90,
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Depths
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3.40 avg rating — 3,093 ratings
score: 89,
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The Alone to the Alone
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4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 88,
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The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
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3.93 avg rating — 8,488 ratings
score: 87,
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Love Lies Bleeding (Gervase Fen, #5)
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3.91 avg rating — 2,100 ratings
score: 86,
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The Way of a Serpent
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4.04 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
score: 85,
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Light
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3.96 avg rating — 386 ratings
score: 84,
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Walpurgisnacht
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3.71 avg rating — 774 ratings
score: 83,
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Dandelion Wine
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4.09 avg rating — 77,748 ratings
score: 82,
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The Third Policeman
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3.97 avg rating — 22,652 ratings
score: 81,
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The Illustrated Man
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4.13 avg rating — 106,871 ratings
score: 80,
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Annotated Edition)
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3.83 avg rating — 45,642 ratings
score: 78,
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