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The Painted Bird
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Dead Souls
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We the Living
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Bhagavad Gita
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
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Under the Dome
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The Sea, the Sea
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Uncle Silas
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The Quiet American
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| 711 |
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Freckles (Limberlost, #1)
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Journey to the End of the Night
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The Songs and Sonets of John Donne
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Evermore (The Immortals, #1)
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Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 297,545 ratings
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| 718 |
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From Here to Eternity
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4.08 avg rating — 17,995 ratings
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QB VII
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Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 419,955 ratings
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| 718 |
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Go Ask Alice
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Beatrice Sparks (as "Anonymous")
3.74 avg rating — 289,608 ratings
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| 722 |
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,445,349 ratings
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| 723 |
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The Way We Live Now
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4.09 avg rating — 13,939 ratings
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| 724 |
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Nobody's Boy
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4.40 avg rating — 22,757 ratings
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| 724 |
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Fallen (Fallen, #1)
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Lauren Kate (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 613,402 ratings
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| 726 |
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
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3.67 avg rating — 28,355 ratings
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| 727 |
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Beau Geste
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4.03 avg rating — 3,677 ratings
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| 728 |
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The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 200,745 ratings
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| 728 |
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Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 559,534 ratings
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| 728 |
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)
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Ally Carter (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 192,793 ratings
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| 731 |
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The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
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4.18 avg rating — 20,556 ratings
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| 731 |
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High Couch of Silistra (Silistra #1)
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 469 ratings
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| 733 |
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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4.14 avg rating — 48,501 ratings
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| 734 |
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Looking for Alaska
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,724,161 ratings
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| 735 |
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The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 71,606 ratings
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| 735 |
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, #1)
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 943,740 ratings
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| 737 |
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Gunnar's Daughter
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4.18 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
score: 274,
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| 738 |
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Ragtime
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3.89 avg rating — 45,856 ratings
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Look Homeward, Angel
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3.92 avg rating — 15,588 ratings
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| 740 |
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The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 138,463 ratings
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Shutter Island
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 218,696 ratings
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| 742 |
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The Satanic Verses
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3.71 avg rating — 70,726 ratings
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| 743 |
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The Brothers Lionheart
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4.35 avg rating — 41,127 ratings
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| 744 |
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Scoop
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3.79 avg rating — 22,156 ratings
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| 744 |
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Matched (Matched, #1)
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Ally Condie (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 811,002 ratings
score: 269,
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| 746 |
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The Lottery
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4.04 avg rating — 105,369 ratings
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| 746 |
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Delirium (Delirium, #1)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 477,367 ratings
score: 268,
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| 748 |
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The Sot-Weed Factor
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4.12 avg rating — 7,660 ratings
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| 748 |
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Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels: ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Thirteen at Dinner
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4.54 avg rating — 4,577 ratings
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Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
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4.21 avg rating — 25,641 ratings
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| 751 |
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The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 44,953 ratings
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| 751 |
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So long, Yugoslavia
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4.61 avg rating — 77 ratings
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To Dream the Blackbane
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4.51 avg rating — 263 ratings
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| 754 |
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Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)
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4.01 avg rating — 55,511 ratings
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| 755 |
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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
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3.91 avg rating — 74,096 ratings
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| 756 |
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 141,875 ratings
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| 756 |
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The Little Match Girl
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4.10 avg rating — 28,369 ratings
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The House on the Strand
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3.82 avg rating — 14,359 ratings
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| 759 |
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The Harvester
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4.21 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
score: 261,
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| 759 |
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Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
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4.24 avg rating — 30,422 ratings
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| 761 |
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Manfred
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3.79 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
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| 762 |
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Piercing
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3.69 avg rating — 18,198 ratings
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| 763 |
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Rabbit Novels: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux
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3.99 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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| 763 |
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Emily Climbs (Emily, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 25,487 ratings
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| 765 |
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All My Sons
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3.91 avg rating — 29,919 ratings
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| 765 |
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The Marbled Swarm
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3.47 avg rating — 1,451 ratings
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| 765 |
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My Sister's Keeper
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,267,064 ratings
score: 257,
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| 768 |
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The End of the Affair
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3.90 avg rating — 69,510 ratings
score: 256,
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| 769 |
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Misery
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 822,733 ratings
score: 255,
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| 770 |
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Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1)
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Melissa Marr (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 165,979 ratings
score: 253,
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| 770 |
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The Truth About Forever
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 225,866 ratings
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| 772 |
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Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,252 ratings
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| 772 |
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 470,087 ratings
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| 774 |
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American Pastoral
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3.95 avg rating — 86,683 ratings
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The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
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4.42 avg rating — 107,430 ratings
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The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 147,751 ratings
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| 777 |
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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4.17 avg rating — 184,125 ratings
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| 778 |
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Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 53,691 ratings
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| 778 |
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Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 121,216 ratings
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| 780 |
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Pak Tua yang Membaca Kisah Cinta
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3.93 avg rating — 29,245 ratings
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| 781 |
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Tartuffe
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3.66 avg rating — 42,523 ratings
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| 782 |
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Winesburg, Ohio
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3.84 avg rating — 36,488 ratings
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| 783 |
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The Complete Essays
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4.23 avg rating — 21,677 ratings
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| 784 |
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Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
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4.10 avg rating — 38,577 ratings
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| 785 |
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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3.93 avg rating — 288,831 ratings
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| 785 |
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Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 422,152 ratings
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| 787 |
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Till We Have Faces
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4.20 avg rating — 78,204 ratings
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| 787 |
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The Yearling
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4.03 avg rating — 30,245 ratings
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| 789 |
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Babbitt
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3.69 avg rating — 24,619 ratings
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| 789 |
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Excellent Women
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3.91 avg rating — 19,891 ratings
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| 791 |
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 315,034 ratings
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| 791 |
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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4.22 avg rating — 145,523 ratings
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A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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Ronald Holt (Adapter)
4.24 avg rating — 91,313 ratings
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| 791 |
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Lucky Jim
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| 791 |
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 4,309,821 ratings
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| 796 |
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Irrungen, Wirrungen
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| 796 |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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| 798 |
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War in Korea
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| 799 |
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Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
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4.01 avg rating — 108,311 ratings
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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there are two "to kill a mockingbird". how to delete one?
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Silvana wrote: "there are two "to kill a mockingbird". how to delete one?"there are three wuthering heights - i voted for 'em all
You've a bit of Russian lit on here. If you enjoy it, and you've not read these already, you might try: Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"
Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls"
The team of Pevear and Volokhonsky is my current favorite for Russian to English translation whenever I can find them. They do very well capturing the "flavor" and sensibilities of the original Russian.
I give it a week before the Bible or Book of Mormon supplants Camus as number one.
This is a great list! Eventually I'll work my way through it...lol
It's nice to know someone else is enjoying these books besides me! If only I could find someone in High School who enjoys them this much! Love your list and will hopefully be able to make it through all 456 books!!!
Emily, I love these books. Some strange ones slipped in this list but I really like them on the whole.
Some of these are not classics yet.
Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are some really great books that have been much neglected by readers. These two stories are similar but not alike.
Anne wrote: "Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are ..."
Anne, I just downloaded Manon Lescaut from Project Gutenberg. I could not find Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias. Thank you for the suggestions. I will find it somewhere else.
Anne, I just downloaded Manon Lescaut from Project Gutenberg. I could not find Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias. Thank you for the suggestions. I will find it somewhere else.
And diary of a wimpy kid dog days! What on earth?
Charlotte's web should be on that list. Its a true classic.
There are several repeats, I noticed The Bible, "To Kill a Mockingbird," "I capture the Castle," and "Metamorphosis." They are the different formats of the same book on here twice.... Can it be fixed?
Librarians' can change it, I think.
I removed diary of a wimpy kid from the list, but I am not sure if I should remove Harry Potter or not since I don't know how old a book can be before it is deemed a "classic."
I tried to do a check for duplicates but some of the books are wierd. For example, there is a 7 in one book for the Chronicles of Narnia, but there is also the first two in separate places on the list. Unfortunately, those can't be combined and if I delete one than votes will be lost, also being on the delete book page scares me, because if I delete something I shouldn't than my librarian privileges could be revoked. I value my librarian status too much to risk that.
Danielle wrote: "I removed diary of a wimpy kid from the list, but I am not sure if I should remove Harry Potter or not since I don't know how old a book can be before it is deemed a "classic.""I know that it has been a while but I agree with your decision to keep Harry Potter. It may not be a classic now, exactly, but I believe that one day it will be.
Can anyone recommend a publisher of hard cover classics? Or a book club where I can purchase them? I'd like to begin a library to pass on to my family's future generations. Thank you.
Classics are just phenomenal! They are basis of books today and a reason why I keep reading!
Anne wrote: "Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are ..."It is impossible I have finally got somenone who loves La dame aux camelias, this story is one of the best love stories EVER>
It's pretty easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."
Susanna wrote: "It's pretty easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes.""How does #181 Isn't It Pretty To Think So? qualify for this list?
Because those same 12 people have spammed it on 27 pages of Listopias! (Was 28, but I removed it from a few, like "Time's Top 10 Novels of 2012," which it wasn't.)
Removed, because a book published in 2012 is not a classic in the terms of this list:Isn't It Pretty To Think So?
some books are not classics and so should be removed
Dorothy wrote: "Can anyone recommend a publisher of hard cover classics? Or a book club where I can purchase them? I'd like to begin a library to pass on to my family's future generations. Thank you."Great idea - building a library to pass on to future generations. Thanks for the idea!
The Godfather is a classic? I liked it but a classic?
The movie is a classic. Haven't read the book.
I read the book and the part about the horse was much too graphic. I would not call it a classic yet but I am not sure how that is determined.
Is there a list for classic movies? (will search)
thanks
Is there a list for classic movies? (will search)
thanks
There are several for movies, don't know if there's a list for that or not, though. (There's at least one of all of these, though: book and movie both good, book better than movie, movie better than book.)
My definition of "classic" is about as liberal as you're going to find. In going through this list, I found and removed some titles published within the last ten-fifteen years:The Fault In Our Stars
The Book Thief
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Dear John
Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope (this is a YA modernization of the classic Austen novel)
Code Name Verity
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... And It's All Small Stuff
Looking For Alaska
I Know This Much Is True
Angela's Ashes
Many of these books are good, but it's too soon to say whether they'll become classics for future readers.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marques is the greatest novel of the twentieth century IMHO.Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis is a great cycle of poetry.
The Illustrated Man by the late Ray Bradbury is excellent as are ANY OF HIS WRITINGS!
Other good reads:
The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
Hawaii by James Mitchener
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
i have just retired an want a place to start reading,i have read a lot but want to read classics at this point, why? because i want to see what the great thinkers and writes had to draw on to get where they got with the knowledge they saw before them
I am very surprised to see The Scarlet Pimpernel on the list. Although Baroness Orczy should be credited for creating the disguised-hero-alter-ego oeuvre, I don't think that she had any talent!
One of the best non-fiction short stories I ever read was Jack London's People of the Abyss. It is a harrowing sociological study of the East End of London around the time of Jack the Ripper. This is a great classic and one that most people should read if for no other reason than to put that time frame in context. You will be thanking God that you live in this time as opposed to that time after reading this book. It is available to download on gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1688
Bruce wrote: "i have just retired an want a place to start reading,i have read a lot but want to read classics at this point, why? because i want to see what the great thinkers and writes had to draw on to get w..."Hi Bruce, I retired from "corporate America" recently but am doing lots of different things now. I too am catching up on my reading. I think this list is a pretty good place to start. I've read seven of the top ten and Jane Eyre is next!
This list is way too long. A lot of these aren't classics, especially the books on the latter pages.
Greg wrote: "Bruce wrote: "i have just retired an want a place to start reading,i have read a lot but want to read classics at this point, why? because i want to see what the great thinkers and writes had to dr..."Bruce, I read Jane Eyre. Worst book I've ever read. IF you dare read it, don't say I didn't warn you.
what definition is being used for "classic" ? i'd say some are too recent to be included.
I checked for duplicates and removed 17.
I went and typed this out on a spreadsheet & removed duplicates. The Harry Potter series is in there at least three times, still.
From the 1046 I have 956 non-duplicated books.
I love the classics for sure, but I just don't get the fascination with Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye... just because it's old doesn't make it a classic.
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