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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Waiting for Godot
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3.84 avg rating — 219,524 ratings
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Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 176,872 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,674,170 ratings
score: 624,
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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Sexing the Cherry
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3.84 avg rating — 18,951 ratings
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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3.89 avg rating — 24,847 ratings
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The Giving Tree
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4.38 avg rating — 1,221,800 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 381,862 ratings
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Running with Scissors
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 402,108 ratings
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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 206,877 ratings
score: 465,
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Garth Stein (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 550,051 ratings
score: 450,
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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4.19 avg rating — 211,275 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 422,133 ratings
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Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 347,448 ratings
score: 379,
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Falling Angels
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 26,994 ratings
score: 373,
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 194,966 ratings
score: 371,
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Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions
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3.71 avg rating — 820 ratings
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Surfacing
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 28,363 ratings
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Leaving Las Vegas
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4.03 avg rating — 5,738 ratings
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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 — 93,611 ratings
score: 354,
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
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Jeff Lindsay (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 216,545 ratings
score: 344,
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Leaving a Doll's House
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3.26 avg rating — 213 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 440,866 ratings
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What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
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3.74 avg rating — 25,058 ratings
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Missing Joseph (Inspector Lynley, #6)
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Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 15,407 ratings
score: 319,
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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
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3.50 avg rating — 13,659 ratings
score: 292,
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About Looking
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4.09 avg rating — 9,194 ratings
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Digging to America
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 23,376 ratings
score: 284,
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Being There
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3.86 avg rating — 14,989 ratings
score: 282,
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 619,856 ratings
score: 281,
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Losing Battles
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3.62 avg rating — 634 ratings
score: 278,
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 52,180 ratings
score: 278,
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Playing for the Ashes (Inspector Lynley, #7)
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Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 18,204 ratings
score: 276,
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Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
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3.56 avg rating — 52,991 ratings
score: 271,
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Susan Cain (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 470,216 ratings
score: 270,
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,177,233 ratings
score: 268,
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Telling the Truth About History
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3.35 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Breathing Lessons
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 32,845 ratings
score: 256,
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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History
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3.38 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
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4.24 avg rating — 2,057 ratings
score: 250,
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Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 261,945 ratings
score: 246,
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Speaking with the Angel
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Nick Hornby (Editor)
3.51 avg rating — 5,974 ratings
score: 234,
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.21 avg rating — 10,711 ratings
score: 219,
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
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Vincent Lam (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 10,306 ratings
score: 219,
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Practicing History: Selected Essays
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3.96 avg rating — 833 ratings
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Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,197 ratings
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 - 1962
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4.03 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 8,340 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 44,773 ratings
score: 198,
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The Making of the President 1960
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4.15 avg rating — 7,932 ratings
score: 196,
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Remembering Laughter
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3.82 avg rating — 2,006 ratings
score: 195,
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The Waiting Years
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3.95 avg rating — 3,215 ratings
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 111,215 ratings
score: 194,
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Censoring an Iranian Love Story
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3.68 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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4.17 avg rating — 401,527 ratings
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
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Judy Blume (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 15,626 ratings
score: 192,
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Driving with Dead People
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3.86 avg rating — 5,933 ratings
score: 191,
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Loving Women
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3.83 avg rating — 215 ratings
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One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
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Karen M. McManus (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,036,686 ratings
score: 189,
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Going to Meet the Man
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4.37 avg rating — 8,330 ratings
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Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
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3.90 avg rating — 1,530 ratings
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Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
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3.67 avg rating — 2,897 ratings
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse
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Piu Marie Eatwell (Goodreads Author)
3.31 avg rating — 1,674 ratings
score: 183,
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Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 394,651 ratings
score: 183,
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Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War
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4.12 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Housekeeping
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3.81 avg rating — 57,979 ratings
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
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3.46 avg rating — 9,444 ratings
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Fear of Flying
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3.48 avg rating — 23,243 ratings
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Hunting Badger (Leaphorn & Chee, #14)
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4.08 avg rating — 9,667 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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4.30 avg rating — 45,927 ratings
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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4.50 avg rating — 21,431 ratings
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Falling Leaves
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3.91 avg rating — 29,044 ratings
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
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Jon Katz (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 1,922 ratings
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Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myths
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Susanne Alleyn (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 579 ratings
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
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3.97 avg rating — 3,994 ratings
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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3.55 avg rating — 16,968 ratings
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The Haunting of Toby Jugg (Black Magic, #3)
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3.69 avg rating — 643 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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Kate Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 181,133 ratings
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Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self
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3.70 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 575,957 ratings
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Keeping Faith
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 89,473 ratings
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Reconstructing Amelia
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Kimberly McCreight (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 135,753 ratings
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Running Scared (Rarities Unlimited, #2)
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Elizabeth Lowell (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
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4.03 avg rating — 640 ratings
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Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales
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Linda Lombardi (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Saving Fish from Drowning
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 32,965 ratings
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The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
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Jasmine Guillory (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 161,883 ratings
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The Hating Game
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Sally Thorne (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 817,498 ratings
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Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)
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Lisa Kleypas (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 46,142 ratings
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Stealing Light (The Shoal Sequence, #1)
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Gary Gibson (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 3,458 ratings
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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Dying in the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1)
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Frances Brody (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 5,979 ratings
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Trading Up
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Candace Bushnell (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 20,604 ratings
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 710,441 ratings
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Finding Moon
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3.87 avg rating — 4,167 ratings
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Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
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3.60 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Leaving Atlanta
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Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 6,801 ratings
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Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (The Ralstons, #1)
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Sarah MacLean (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 59,683 ratings
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Jan 31, 2010 05:50PM
Too bad we can't add The Closing of the American Mind.
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Or Wuthering Heights or The Flowering of New England.
We can have a gerunds list for Flowering...., but isn't Wuthering a participial adjective ? These Old School terms always seemed so slippery to me......that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Do what you think best, I'm sure it'll be CORRECTER THAN ME. (Sorry, couldn't resist funnin' with you).
No, I didn't even know what a present participle was until I read your description. I'm going with the law you laid down. Yes, I think Wuthering is an adjective.
One of the simplest and best tests is to put "the" in front of the element and see how it sounds. If it sounds good, too bad, you've got a gerund....We have a couple of onions in our petunia patch already--About Looking is one--but what-the-heck.
And "flying" in Fear of Flying looks a lot like the object of a preposition, hence a noun. I think Studs' Terkel's Working is also a substantive as he intends it to be understood. Let's just keep collecting and eventually open up a gerund list. ....What would you call "Stompin' at the Savoy" ?
I'll second that -- have pity on the non-native speakers on this site! (We're having enough trouble finding our way around gerunds and other uses of -ing words as it is anyway!) I'm the last person not to empathize with a certain, err, desire to keep lists within a given set of boundaries, and I do take heart looking at all the apparent onions that already seem to have been planted by others (not that I'd have spotted them myself) ... but I do confess I am contributing to this list with my hand stuck firmly in my mouth and perfectly ready to see every single one of my contributions ruled a violation of the rules for not being a present participle but a gerund or some other example of those confounded -ing form that are, no doubt, the bane of high school students all over the world!
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Those rowdy sixties hooligans through all that out along with diagramming sentences. I remember the arguments put forward at the time: English isn't Latin. It's irrelevant. Etc.
I know that a major creative writing school in Arkansas spends the first semester teaching the writing of clear sentences. Where have all the grammarians gone ? Sigh.
I had to diagram sentences (from SILAS MARNER) in school in the 1980s. Mind you, it was a very traditional sort of school - we were also required to take two years of Latin and another two years of a modern foreign language.I transferred schools in my senior year, and was the only student in my A.P. English class that had heard of the concept.
No idea if they teach it now. Probably not!
That is up there in shocking with something that happened to us at the grocery store last month.Our bag boy asked us if we still had the big box of books in the trunk (and was very disappointed when we said no, we had taken them to Literacy). And then we found out he wanted to be an English professor!
My mother (an English professor) almost died of shock.
Snort!What really surprised her was that he said he wanted to go to Iowa.
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