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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,481,214 ratings
score: 392,
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4 people voted
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,388,508 ratings
score: 295,
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3 people voted
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Breakfast of Champions
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4.06 avg rating — 278,452 ratings
score: 199,
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Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 134,890 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 88,587 ratings
score: 196,
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White Horse
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Alex Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Rebecca: The Making of a Hollywood Classic
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3.78 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Second Revolution
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Gary Hansen (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 138 ratings
score: 100,
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Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic
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Alex Morritt (Goodreads Author)
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 100,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,794,579 ratings
score: 100,
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I Remember Mama: Play in Two Acts
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3.90 avg rating — 291 ratings
score: 99,
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 8,093 ratings
score: 99,
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Hell Ship
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4.14 avg rating — 702 ratings
score: 98,
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America Again
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3.85 avg rating — 13,116 ratings
score: 97,
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 97,
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,978 ratings
score: 95,
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Purple and Black
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4.21 avg rating — 678 ratings
score: 94,
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Feed
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3.55 avg rating — 67,813 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Discord's Apple
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Carrie Vaughn (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 2,863 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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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 — 142,031 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 77,968 ratings
score: 89,
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