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a list of books that young adults should read
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Impulse (Submerged Sun, #2)
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Vanessa Garden (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 607 ratings
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Importance of Being Earnest (New Mermaid Series)
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4.17 avg rating — 401,921 ratings
score: 95,
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Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 32,669 ratings
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The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2)
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4.22 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel
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Jason Cobley (Writer)
3.78 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
score: 94,
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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3.96 avg rating — 3,891 ratings
score: 94,
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Sea Hearts
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Margo Lanagan (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 4,411 ratings
score: 94,
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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3.88 avg rating — 348,021 ratings
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| 205 |
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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Mindy Kaling (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 511,756 ratings
score: 94,
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Thomas (The Deptford Histories, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 389 ratings
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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3.46 avg rating — 6,793 ratings
score: 93,
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Livingstone
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4.03 avg rating — 146 ratings
score: 93,
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Le Petit Nicolas
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4.14 avg rating — 40,717 ratings
score: 93,
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The Dead I Know
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3.82 avg rating — 1,487 ratings
score: 93,
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West with the Night
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4.15 avg rating — 40,653 ratings
score: 93,
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The Alchymist's Cat (The Deptford Histories, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 965 ratings
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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4.16 avg rating — 63,190 ratings
score: 93,
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.20 avg rating — 304,471 ratings
score: 93,
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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4.09 avg rating — 12,464 ratings
score: 92,
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Selected Stories
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4.17 avg rating — 17,686 ratings
score: 92,
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Last Days of Summer
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Steve Kluger (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 5,421 ratings
score: 92,
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My Sweet Orange Tree
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4.38 avg rating — 82,090 ratings
score: 91,
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If I Was Your Girl
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Meredith Russo (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 41,813 ratings
score: 91,
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Legend (Legend, #1)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 560,255 ratings
score: 91,
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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4.16 avg rating — 33,176 ratings
score: 90,
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
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3.62 avg rating — 2,571 ratings
score: 90,
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Le Voleur d'ombres
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Marc Levy (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 8,284 ratings
score: 90,
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 654,334 ratings
score: 90,
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Asking For It
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24,089 ratings
score: 90,
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| 225 |
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 3,384,417 ratings
score: 90,
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.02 avg rating — 15,376 ratings
score: 89,
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
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4.16 avg rating — 27,766 ratings
score: 89,
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A Little Princess
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4.23 avg rating — 322,484 ratings
score: 89,
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| 234 |
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Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World
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Lisa Bloom (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
score: 88,
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The Gold Bug
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3.71 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
score: 88,
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Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 422,903 ratings
score: 88,
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| 234 |
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The Wretched of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #1)
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Jeff Wheeler (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 24,873 ratings
score: 88,
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Mistress of Mellyn
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3.92 avg rating — 9,789 ratings
score: 88,
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| 239 |
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Bright Lights, Big City
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Jay McInerney (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 36,706 ratings
score: 87,
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| 239 |
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 433,683 ratings
score: 87,
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| 239 |
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Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 445,174 ratings
score: 87,
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Mistress of Mellyn & Kirkland Revels
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4.19 avg rating — 149 ratings
score: 87,
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Born Confused (Born Confused #1)
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Tanuja Desai Hidier (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 5,335 ratings
score: 86,
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| 243 |
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Lessons from a Dead Girl
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Jo Knowles (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
score: 86,
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Freaky Friday
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3.67 avg rating — 9,010 ratings
score: 86,
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Bride of Pendorric & Mistress of Mellyn
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4.45 avg rating — 104 ratings
score: 86,
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Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (The Twilight Saga)
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3.48 avg rating — 29,525 ratings
score: 85,
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Between Shades of Gray
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 272,717 ratings
score: 84,
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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4.40 avg rating — 293,849 ratings
score: 84,
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| 250 |
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 225,406 ratings
score: 83,
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| 250 |
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Salt to the Sea
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 250,495 ratings
score: 83,
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| 250 |
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You (You, #1)
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Caroline Kepnes (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 288,602 ratings
score: 83,
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Arthur and the Minimoys
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3.67 avg rating — 3,294 ratings
score: 82,
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That Stranger Next Door
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Goldie Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 82,
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| 255 |
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King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 52,362 ratings
score: 81,
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Monstrous Beauty
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Elizabeth Fama (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 5,275 ratings
score: 81,
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,272,341 ratings
score: 81,
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Queen Margot
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4.15 avg rating — 14,478 ratings
score: 80,
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Eventual Poppy Day
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3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Transforming a Rape Culture
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Emilie Buchwald (Editor)
4.36 avg rating — 748 ratings
score: 80,
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Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 208,193 ratings
score: 80,
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Les Malheurs de Sophie
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3.90 avg rating — 5,621 ratings
score: 79,
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Flora's War
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3.76 avg rating — 71 ratings
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A Rose for the ANZAC Boys
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4.02 avg rating — 2,244 ratings
score: 78,
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,424,726 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,832,778 ratings
score: 77,
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My Father's War
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Sophie Masson (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,044,828 ratings
score: 76,
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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 363,152 ratings
score: 76,
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Heroes Of Tobruk
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3.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 235,470 ratings
score: 76,
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,290,355 ratings
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Into That Forest
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3.82 avg rating — 1,673 ratings
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Mahtab's Story
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3.58 avg rating — 427 ratings
score: 74,
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Nineteen Minutes
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 416,074 ratings
score: 73,
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My Lady Jane: The Not Entirely True Story (The Lady Janies, #1)
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Cynthia Hand (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 81,260 ratings
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Jasper Jones
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Craig Silvey (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 42,993 ratings
score: 72,
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Everything is Changed
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3.60 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Hexenhaus
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Nikki McWatters (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 222 ratings
score: 70,
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Moon at Nine
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3.88 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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Promising Azra
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Helen Thurloe (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 201 ratings
score: 67,
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Doglands
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4.18 avg rating — 389 ratings
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One of Us Is Lying (One of Us Is Lying, #1)
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Karen M. McManus (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,039,083 ratings
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Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda
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Becky Albertalli (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 464,761 ratings
score: 64,
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All the Bright Places
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Jennifer Niven (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 622,232 ratings
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Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 136,213 ratings
score: 55,
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In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 102,007 ratings
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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 83,287 ratings
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Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness, #4)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 93,063 ratings
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Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 44,908 ratings
score: 51,
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Tris's Book (Circle of Magic, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 34,053 ratings
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Daja's Book (Circle of Magic, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 31,523 ratings
score: 49,
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Briar's Book (Circle of Magic, #4)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 32,009 ratings
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Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 67,804 ratings
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Mastiff (Beka Cooper, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 30,052 ratings
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Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 39,954 ratings
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Terrier (Beka Cooper, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 69,923 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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Ally Carter (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 94,869 ratings
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Uncommon Criminals (Heist Society, #2)
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Ally Carter (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 44,217 ratings
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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 — 193,047 ratings
score: 41,
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Mar 21, 2013 06:28AM
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank would be my choice.
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This is such a good list and I totally agree with it. I am slowly making my way down this list. Not enough time in the day to read!
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