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The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 42,280 ratings
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The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2)
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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A.J. Jacobs (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 68,885 ratings
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Letters to a Young Poet
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
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Molly Guptill Manning (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 8,494 ratings
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106 |
I Am the Messenger
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 168,649 ratings
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107 |
The Little Paris Bookshop
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Nina George (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 106,225 ratings
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Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 35,881 ratings
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109 |
The Library
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110 |
Famous Men Who Never Lived
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K. Chess (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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111 |
Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 109,578 ratings
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112 |
The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
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Francis Spufford (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 993 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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Flaubert's Parrot
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3.65 avg rating — 16,391 ratings
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115 |
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
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3.99 avg rating — 3,796 ratings
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The Valley of Unknowing
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3.85 avg rating — 371 ratings
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117 |
The Book on the Bookshelf
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3.75 avg rating — 1,479 ratings
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118 |
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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Marisha Pessl (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 48,594 ratings
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119 |
The Holy Bible: King James Version
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120 |
The Pleasure of the Text
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121 |
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
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Lawrence Goldstone (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 1,693 ratings
score: 833,
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It's a Book
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4.23 avg rating — 10,180 ratings
score: 828,
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123 |
Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,286,252 ratings
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124 |
Books
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3.22 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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125 |
My Reading Life
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3.95 avg rating — 8,228 ratings
score: 811,
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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3.95 avg rating — 336,094 ratings
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127 |
Unanimity (Spiral Worlds, #1)
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Alexandra Almeida (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 144 ratings
score: 800,
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128 |
A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
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Harold Rabinowitz (Editor)
3.76 avg rating — 1,418 ratings
score: 798,
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129 |
My Ideal Bookshelf
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Jane Mount (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 2,098 ratings
score: 787,
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130 |
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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Scott McCloud (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 130,520 ratings
score: 786,
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131 |
Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
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3.93 avg rating — 387 ratings
score: 779,
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132 |
The Library of Shadows
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3.38 avg rating — 3,799 ratings
score: 774,
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
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3.87 avg rating — 62,297 ratings
score: 766,
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134 |
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 100,189 ratings
score: 763,
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Ex-Libris
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3.26 avg rating — 1,796 ratings
score: 761,
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Wit
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4.14 avg rating — 17,320 ratings
score: 744,
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137 |
Fangirl
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 776,036 ratings
score: 731,
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138 |
Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 3,395,322 ratings
score: 727,
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139 |
The Camel Bookmobile
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Masha Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 2,432 ratings
score: 722,
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140 |
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 37,483 ratings
score: 718,
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141 |
The Rule of Four
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3.29 avg rating — 38,430 ratings
score: 717,
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142 |
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
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3.82 avg rating — 2,003 ratings
score: 713,
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143 |
The Littlest Library
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Poppy Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 11,752 ratings
score: 700,
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The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
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3.89 avg rating — 37,881 ratings
score: 695,
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145 |
Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 116,291 ratings
score: 688,
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146 |
Book of a Thousand Days
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 56,229 ratings
score: 687,
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147 |
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 561,336 ratings
score: 678,
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148 |
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 27,456 ratings
score: 664,
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149 |
The Last Dickens
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Matthew Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 7,227 ratings
score: 658,
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150 |
Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
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3.49 avg rating — 8,850 ratings
score: 653,
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151 |
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
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Nina Sankovitch (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 7,345 ratings
score: 651,
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152 |
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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3.75 avg rating — 361 ratings
score: 644,
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152 |
Wonder Boys
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3.93 avg rating — 36,973 ratings
score: 644,
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154 |
The Starless Sea
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Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 230,667 ratings
score: 635,
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155 |
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
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Matthew J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 39,786 ratings
score: 634,
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156 |
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
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4.03 avg rating — 8,130 ratings
score: 626,
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157 |
On Literature
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3.95 avg rating — 2,307 ratings
score: 624,
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157 |
The Marriage Plot
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3.48 avg rating — 123,957 ratings
score: 624,
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157 |
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
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Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 30,287 ratings
score: 624,
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160 |
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
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William Joyce (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 14,046 ratings
score: 617,
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161 |
S.
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3.85 avg rating — 28,451 ratings
score: 612,
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162 |
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (Dash & Lily, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 101,181 ratings
score: 601,
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163 |
Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
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4.05 avg rating — 2,233 ratings
score: 588,
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164 |
The Smithsonian Book of Books
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4.18 avg rating — 271 ratings
score: 583,
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165 |
The Art of Fiction
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3.92 avg rating — 3,026 ratings
score: 570,
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166 |
The Secret of Lost Things
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3.12 avg rating — 4,141 ratings
score: 567,
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166 |
Literacy and Longing in L.A.
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Jennifer Kaufman (Goodreads Author)
2.98 avg rating — 1,655 ratings
score: 567,
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168 |
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
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4.07 avg rating — 1,062 ratings
score: 566,
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169 |
The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time
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David L. Ulin (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
score: 561,
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170 |
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
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Anne Bogel (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 20,048 ratings
score: 560,
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171 |
Anna's Book
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3.92 avg rating — 4,719 ratings
score: 559,
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172 |
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 199,551 ratings
score: 557,
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173 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,989,441 ratings
score: 554,
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174 |
The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
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Paul Simpson (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 201 ratings
score: 551,
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175 |
Oracle Night
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3.81 avg rating — 17,605 ratings
score: 550,
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The Year of Reading Dangerously
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3.32 avg rating — 6,208 ratings
score: 550,
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177 |
The Arabian Nights
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4.03 avg rating — 80,779 ratings
score: 548,
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178 |
The Ghost Writer
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John Harwood (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 6,957 ratings
score: 546,
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179 |
Night Train to Lisbon
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3.73 avg rating — 27,512 ratings
score: 544,
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180 |
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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4.21 avg rating — 31,569 ratings
score: 542,
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The Book of Speculation
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Erika Swyler (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 38,758 ratings
score: 542,
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182 |
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
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Pamela Paul (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 4,520 ratings
score: 541,
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183 |
The Bookman's Promise (Cliff Janeway, #3)
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3.87 avg rating — 3,561 ratings
score: 537,
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184 |
Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books
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Jenny Bond (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 526 ratings
score: 534,
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185 |
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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3.86 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
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186 |
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
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Susannah Carson (Editor)
3.91 avg rating — 941 ratings
score: 524,
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187 |
The Broken Teaglass
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Emily Arsenault (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
score: 521,
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188 |
Endymion Spring
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3.59 avg rating — 4,730 ratings
score: 518,
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189 |
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
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Grady Hendrix (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 11,743 ratings
score: 510,
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190 |
Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1)
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Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 13,035 ratings
score: 499,
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Snow
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3.62 avg rating — 49,021 ratings
score: 498,
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Bellwether
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3.93 avg rating — 13,653 ratings
score: 488,
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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
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3.80 avg rating — 992 ratings
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Letters to a Young Novelist
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3.87 avg rating — 3,994 ratings
score: 480,
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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4.24 avg rating — 1,970,465 ratings
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
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3.85 avg rating — 5,743 ratings
score: 475,
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196 |
The Paris Wife
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Paula McLain (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 303,834 ratings
score: 475,
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120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
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3.77 avg rating — 151 ratings
score: 470,
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Bizarre Books
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3.56 avg rating — 298 ratings
score: 464,
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A Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of Reading
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4.07 avg rating — 161 ratings
score: 459,
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Nov 19, 2009 10:27PM

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This is a good list, and the title made me laugh, 'cause my mother and I have a shelf that's been christened just so. We actually own many novels mentioned here :D

That title has been spamed around on lots of lists.
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