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Jane Eyre
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4.14 avg rating — 1,864,545 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.27 avg rating — 5,314,538 ratings
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The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 1,756,718 ratings
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The God of Small Things
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3.95 avg rating — 272,147 ratings
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Beloved
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3.92 avg rating — 379,461 ratings
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Mrs Dalloway
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3.79 avg rating — 260,505 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.96 avg rating — 304,985 ratings
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The Poisonwood Bible
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4.08 avg rating — 699,044 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.60 avg rating — 79,391 ratings
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To the Lighthouse
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3.79 avg rating — 156,263 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 184,677 ratings
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The Goldfinch
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3.93 avg rating — 820,118 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.25 avg rating — 600,097 ratings
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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3.99 avg rating — 101,158 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.67 avg rating — 187,635 ratings
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Housekeeping
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3.80 avg rating — 49,012 ratings
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Kindred
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4.29 avg rating — 147,422 ratings
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Middlemarch
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3.99 avg rating — 148,524 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 7,438,983 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.03 avg rating — 736,120 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4)
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4.09 avg rating — 147,908 ratings
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Orlando
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3.86 avg rating — 74,739 ratings
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A Room of One's Own
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4.19 avg rating — 159,174 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.84 avg rating — 1,358,279 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.11 avg rating — 99,236 ratings
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A Tale for the Time Being
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4.03 avg rating — 101,325 ratings
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The Sea, the Sea
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3.93 avg rating — 18,587 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 192,139 ratings
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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3.79 avg rating — 168,663 ratings
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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3.73 avg rating — 68,958 ratings
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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3.71 avg rating — 114,259 ratings
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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3.97 avg rating — 161,496 ratings
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Emma
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4.03 avg rating — 768,170 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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4.32 avg rating — 135,160 ratings
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The Lover (The Lover, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 44,813 ratings
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The Secret History
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4.15 avg rating — 451,301 ratings
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The Inheritance of Loss
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3.44 avg rating — 50,284 ratings
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Bittersweet
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3.44 avg rating — 17,175 ratings
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.12 avg rating — 62,197 ratings
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 70,125 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 533,736 ratings
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Just Kids
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4.18 avg rating — 222,822 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
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4.07 avg rating — 1,209,207 ratings
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Possession
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3.88 avg rating — 77,787 ratings
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Bossypants
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3.95 avg rating — 935,809 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis, #1-4)
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4.37 avg rating — 156,285 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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3.99 avg rating — 1,688,822 ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
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4.17 avg rating — 176,863 ratings
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The Snow Child
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3.98 avg rating — 134,153 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 245,821 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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4.27 avg rating — 476,676 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
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3.85 avg rating — 67,251 ratings
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The House on Mango Street
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3.68 avg rating — 154,764 ratings
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The Hearing Trumpet
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4.02 avg rating — 5,333 ratings
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Geography III
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4.28 avg rating — 1,868 ratings
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Dear Life
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3.75 avg rating — 33,855 ratings
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The Tiger's Wife
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3.41 avg rating — 97,696 ratings
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Fear of Flying
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3.46 avg rating — 20,177 ratings
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O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 49,212 ratings
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Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,401,375 ratings
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Americanah
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4.31 avg rating — 327,408 ratings
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The Red Tent
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4.19 avg rating — 560,740 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.09 avg rating — 665,066 ratings
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Mama Day
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4.18 avg rating — 10,093 ratings
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Out of Africa
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3.91 avg rating — 40,510 ratings
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Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 28,787 ratings
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In the Time of the Butterflies
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4.14 avg rating — 63,598 ratings
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Gilead
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3.84 avg rating — 99,721 ratings
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 277,931 ratings
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Please Look After Mom
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3.86 avg rating — 33,410 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 112,292 ratings
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Bonjour Tristesse
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3.68 avg rating — 37,534 ratings
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When She Woke
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3.67 avg rating — 27,256 ratings
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
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4.03 avg rating — 134,702 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.93 avg rating — 262,111 ratings
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Tipping the Velvet
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4.03 avg rating — 64,807 ratings
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Like Water for Chocolate
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3.95 avg rating — 344,919 ratings
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مسك الغزال
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3.22 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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The Namesake
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 253,291 ratings
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Burial Rites
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4.02 avg rating — 101,843 ratings
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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 37,525 ratings
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Woman on the Edge of Time
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3.94 avg rating — 15,519 ratings
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The Piano Teacher
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3.56 avg rating — 10,705 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.25 avg rating — 176,078 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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4.20 avg rating — 42,224 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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4.14 avg rating — 510,934 ratings
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 76,187 ratings
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Journal of a Solitude
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4.16 avg rating — 4,037 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.05 avg rating — 196,772 ratings
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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
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3.49 avg rating — 10,456 ratings
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Ship Fever: Stories
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4.04 avg rating — 3,817 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.98 avg rating — 1,044,551 ratings
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Unaccustomed Earth
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4.11 avg rating — 89,921 ratings
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The Lacuna
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3.78 avg rating — 66,790 ratings
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Becoming Odyssa: Epic Adventures on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 6,595 ratings
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The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #4)
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3.59 avg rating — 45,890 ratings
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Origin
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3.55 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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A Map of the World
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3.81 avg rating — 72,287 ratings
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Wise Children
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3.91 avg rating — 8,234 ratings
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The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 18,255 ratings
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Darkmans by Nicola Barker
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
EVERY book by Nicole Krauss: Great House, History of Love, Man Walks Into a Room
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
The Saint of Incipient Insanities by Elif Şafak
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read them by Elif Batuman
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
Exit Wounds by Rotu Modan
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney
Also
Collected Stories of Flannery O' Connor
Any of Amy Hempel's short story collections