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A list of the best parallel novels, or reimagined classics, that are written within, about, or derived from the character or basic structure of another author's work of fiction.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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The Penelopiad
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 84,764 ratings
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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The Hours
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Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 147,744 ratings
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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Telemachus and Homer
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4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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March
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 77,232 ratings
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 136,640 ratings
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Till We Have Faces
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4.20 avg rating — 78,690 ratings
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My Mr. Rochester (Jane Eyre Retold, #1)
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L.K. Rigel (Goodreads Author)
3.10 avg rating — 222 ratings
score: 400,
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The Song of Achilles
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,917,244 ratings
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Circe
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 1,309,999 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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Helen Fielding (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,017,428 ratings
score: 388,
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Phantom
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4.33 avg rating — 13,005 ratings
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Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)
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4.16 avg rating — 129,366 ratings
score: 385,
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On Top Of The World: Until The Bell Chimes
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David Lamb (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 300,
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 212,021 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 274,903 ratings
score: 297,
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My Mr. Rochester 2 (Jane Eyre Retold, #2)
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L.K. Rigel (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 296,
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My Mr. Rochester 3 (Jane Eyre Retold, #3)
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L.K. Rigel (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
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4.03 avg rating — 45,201 ratings
score: 294,
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Princess of Glass (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #2)
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Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 23,011 ratings
score: 291,
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Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)
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Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 36,838 ratings
score: 290,
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Mary Reilly
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Valerie Martin (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 2,898 ratings
score: 289,
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)
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Seth Grahame-Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 141,822 ratings
score: 286,
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Ophelia
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3.71 avg rating — 12,223 ratings
score: 285,
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
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3.54 avg rating — 62,116 ratings
score: 281,
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Grendel
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3.69 avg rating — 42,005 ratings
score: 274,
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Jack Maggs
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3.69 avg rating — 4,415 ratings
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The Lost Books of the Odyssey
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Zachary Mason (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 3,490 ratings
score: 242,
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Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 14,892 ratings
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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4.05 avg rating — 82,603 ratings
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Stone Field
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Christy Lenzi (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 323 ratings
score: 200,
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Company of Liars
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Karen Maitland (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 16,498 ratings
score: 198,
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Hag-Seed
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 39,860 ratings
score: 194,
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Dracula: the Audio Drama
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Lawrence Burgess (Director)
4.64 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 193,
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Medea
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3.92 avg rating — 4,853 ratings
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Five Children on the Western Front
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3.96 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
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Princess of the Silver Woods (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #3)
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Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 13,748 ratings
score: 189,
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Lavinia
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3.86 avg rating — 16,808 ratings
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Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1)
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Dave Barry (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 78,119 ratings
score: 184,
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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3.66 avg rating — 104,878 ratings
score: 174,
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On Beauty
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3.78 avg rating — 89,974 ratings
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The Double Bind
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3.64 avg rating — 30,446 ratings
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Looking for Peyton Place
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Barbara Delinsky (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 3,708 ratings
score: 168,
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The Last Ringbearer
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3.46 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
score: 159,
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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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Ben H. Winters (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 12,222 ratings
score: 150,
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Mirror Mirror
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3.29 avg rating — 31,960 ratings
score: 147,
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Dracula in Love
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Karen Essex (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 2,939 ratings
score: 142,
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The Third Witch
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3.72 avg rating — 688 ratings
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Queen of Hearts: The Crown (Queen of Hearts Saga, #1)
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Colleen Oakes (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 12,148 ratings
score: 120,
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All Hallows at Eyre Hall (Eyre Hall Trilogy, #1)
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Luccia Gray (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 122 ratings
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A Love for the Pages
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Joy Penny (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Halton Cray (Shadows of the World, #1)
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N.B. Roberts (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Heart's Blood
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 17,649 ratings
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Longbourn
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Jo Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 61,910 ratings
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Winter Tide (The Innsmouth Legacy, #1)
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Ruthanna Emrys (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 3,630 ratings
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Captive
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Gabrielle Estres (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Ransom
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Foul Is Fair
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Hannah Capin (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 4,987 ratings
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A Bed of Flowers, or, As You Like It
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Go Hunt Me
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Kelly deVos (Goodreads Author)
3.23 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
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The Death I Gave Him
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Em X. Liu (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 2,289 ratings
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Laertes: A Hamlet Retelling
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Carly Stevens (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
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Melinda Taub (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 4,311 ratings
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Demon Copperhead
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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
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Vinegar Girl
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 40,378 ratings
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The Wife Upstairs
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Rachel Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 310,381 ratings
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Lady Macbeth's Daughter
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Ophelia's Revenge
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Dracula: The Un-Dead
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Heartless
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
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Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story
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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
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Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 22,574 ratings
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Enter Three Witches
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Artful
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Jane
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April Lindner (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 9,111 ratings
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Romeo's Ex: Rosaline's Story
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Noah Barleywater Runs Away
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 4,045 ratings
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Splintered (Splintered, #1)
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A.G. Howard (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 67,152 ratings
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Mermaid
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Carolyn Turgeon (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 6,118 ratings
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The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow
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Alyssa Palombo (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 3,862 ratings
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The Surface Breaks
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Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!
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Death Comes to Pemberley
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The Fool's Girl
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Celia Rees (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 1,443 ratings
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Four Children and It
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Juliet
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Anne Fortier (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 28,346 ratings
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Scarlett
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Vlad: The Last Confession
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C.C. Humphreys (Goodreads Author)
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Finn
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Jon Clinch (Goodreads Author)
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Rhett Butler's People
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The Wind Done Gone
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Gertrude and Claudius
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A Thousand Acres
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Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)
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Jane Fairfax
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The Final Solution
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The Looking Glass Wars (The Looking Glass Wars, #1)
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Frank Beddor (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 46,788 ratings
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Dani
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394 friends
394 friends
Terry
617 books
92 friends
92 friends
Spoiledduchess
888 books
56 friends
56 friends
Holly
2612 books
40 friends
40 friends
Jordanne
4 books
21 friends
21 friends
Sarah
14814 books
227 friends
227 friends
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Very interesting list...Thanks
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