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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Animal Farm
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Jane Eyre
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,796,995 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,103,072 ratings
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,153,578 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 4,443,965 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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4.58 avg rating — 3,627,035 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 726,547 ratings
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Anthem
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3.61 avg rating — 166,231 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,285,552 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,077,775 ratings
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,297,893 ratings
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 659,271 ratings
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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score: 259,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,040,773 ratings
score: 228,
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,804,026 ratings
score: 217,
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,862,519 ratings
score: 214,
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Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 25,194 ratings
score: 193,
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Dubliners
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3.83 avg rating — 174,327 ratings
score: 191,
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I Capture the Castle
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3.99 avg rating — 114,806 ratings
score: 186,
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Daddy-Long-Legs
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4.13 avg rating — 75,069 ratings
score: 180,
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,458,767 ratings
score: 176,
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,441,653 ratings
score: 176,
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.53 avg rating — 236,971 ratings
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 128,415 ratings
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,383,655 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 409,850 ratings
score: 172,
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The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
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4.38 avg rating — 90,700 ratings
score: 170,
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The Raven
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4.29 avg rating — 167,670 ratings
score: 166,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,806,177 ratings
score: 165,
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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
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3.89 avg rating — 14,857 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,200,797 ratings
score: 162,
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 3,117,636 ratings
score: 161,
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 48,204 ratings
score: 161,
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The Hiding Place
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4.48 avg rating — 353,929 ratings
score: 160,
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,745,762 ratings
score: 159,
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.99 avg rating — 316,279 ratings
score: 159,
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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4.50 avg rating — 1,112,539 ratings
score: 156,
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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 1,029,552 ratings
score: 154,
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Waiting for Godot
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3.84 avg rating — 220,836 ratings
score: 152,
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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 210,684 ratings
score: 151,
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The Elements of Style
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4.18 avg rating — 86,846 ratings
score: 148,
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 301,306 ratings
score: 143,
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The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
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4.07 avg rating — 117,413 ratings
score: 139,
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A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 490,889 ratings
score: 127,
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,435,240 ratings
score: 124,
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,007,381 ratings
score: 114,
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,849,930 ratings
score: 107,
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The Secret Language
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4.14 avg rating — 988 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 325,812 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,016,084 ratings
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Candide
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3.76 avg rating — 299,462 ratings
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A Room of One's Own
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4.22 avg rating — 256,373 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 515,907 ratings
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The Cask of Amontillado
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4.07 avg rating — 87,525 ratings
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A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1-5)
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4.61 avg rating — 64,937 ratings
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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4.28 avg rating — 7,574 ratings
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Generals Die in Bed
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3.82 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,473,466 ratings
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The Painted Veil
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3.97 avg rating — 51,384 ratings
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Dear Enemy (Daddy-Long-Legs, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 13,145 ratings
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The Things They Carried
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4.14 avg rating — 342,712 ratings
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Metamorphoses
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
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4.12 avg rating — 302,730 ratings
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East of Eden
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4.44 avg rating — 627,348 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 170,800 ratings
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Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 70,613 ratings
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The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 126,091 ratings
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 295,125 ratings
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Charlotte’s Web
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4.21 avg rating — 2,029,014 ratings
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A Modest Proposal
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Burmese Days
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3.87 avg rating — 32,085 ratings
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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3.76 avg rating — 77,398 ratings
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 30,424 ratings
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The Stand
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4.35 avg rating — 829,087 ratings
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New Oxford Dictionary of English
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4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Invisible Man
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3.63 avg rating — 215,598 ratings
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Lost Horizon
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3.95 avg rating — 24,735 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.24 avg rating — 785,006 ratings
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Beowulf
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3.50 avg rating — 344,147 ratings
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 561,472 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
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3.38 avg rating — 178,308 ratings
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Carmilla
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3.87 avg rating — 189,955 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 564,645 ratings
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Confessions of a Mask
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The Sound of the Mountain
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The Makioka Sisters
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No Longer Human
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3.94 avg rating — 245,875 ratings
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Tales of Moonlight and Rain
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3.79 avg rating — 2,925 ratings
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