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Eat, Pray, Love
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3.65 avg rating — 1,845,009 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,450,899 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,111,714 ratings
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Shantaram
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4.28 avg rating — 239,877 ratings
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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,024,507 ratings
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 987,167 ratings
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,526,022 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,193,844 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,738,387 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 811,523 ratings
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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 364,985 ratings
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Call Me Irresistible (Wynette, Texas, #6)
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4.10 avg rating — 25,837 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,702,170 ratings
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| 14 |
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,858,574 ratings
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The Woman in the Castello
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3.44 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 3,154,887 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,023,840 ratings
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.24 avg rating — 776,729 ratings
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 448,740 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,257,348 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 446,188 ratings
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 3,442,405 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 721,195 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,061,057 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,114,087 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,895,087 ratings
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| 27 |
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 107,303 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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4.07 avg rating — 122,250 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.07 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,115,014 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 831,683 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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3.81 avg rating — 64,768 ratings
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A Room with a View
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3.89 avg rating — 201,892 ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small #1-2)
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4.36 avg rating — 158,587 ratings
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Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
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3.56 avg rating — 2,028 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,364,323 ratings
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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
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4.09 avg rating — 513,677 ratings
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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
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4.02 avg rating — 184,536 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 868,453 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 427,278 ratings
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Beach Music
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4.19 avg rating — 54,862 ratings
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When Secrets Bloom (Blood of Kings, Heart of Shadows, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
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3.92 avg rating — 119,858 ratings
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Trinity
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4.30 avg rating — 25,388 ratings
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Out of Africa
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3.91 avg rating — 48,088 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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4.09 avg rating — 96,940 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,497,791 ratings
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| 48 |
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This Heart of Mine (Chicago Stars, #5)
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4.08 avg rating — 33,014 ratings
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Viajes ficcionalizados 1: París-Bruselas-Estocolmo-Berna-Liechtenstein
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4.13 avg rating — 69 ratings
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House Rules
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4.04 avg rating — 187,850 ratings
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)
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3.63 avg rating — 116,194 ratings
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Lo que me llevo del desierto no es arena
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4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
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3.79 avg rating — 494,522 ratings
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The Thinking Tank
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4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 395,964 ratings
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 71,468 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 421,497 ratings
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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4.04 avg rating — 211,422 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,297,814 ratings
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The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 202,935 ratings
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Turkey: The Raw Guide
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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3.92 avg rating — 473,165 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 227,583 ratings
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A Painted House
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3.77 avg rating — 102,448 ratings
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Sarah's Key
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4.18 avg rating — 495,375 ratings
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Chaperones
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3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Get a Life! - The Guide Book
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4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.53 avg rating — 238,084 ratings
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London
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4.09 avg rating — 34,323 ratings
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A Passage to India
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3.67 avg rating — 85,915 ratings
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 298,475 ratings
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Railonama
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4.05 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Birth of Venus
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3.81 avg rating — 99,990 ratings
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Time and Again
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3.94 avg rating — 25,338 ratings
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The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 1,369,436 ratings
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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
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3.82 avg rating — 8,763 ratings
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The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
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4.42 avg rating — 1,219,713 ratings
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The Age of Innocence
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3.97 avg rating — 196,032 ratings
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 878,480 ratings
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A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,504 ratings
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Pink Wellies and Flat Caps
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4.05 avg rating — 712 ratings
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Can't Buy Me Love
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4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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CHINA: Portrait of a People
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4.21 avg rating — 191 ratings
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| 84 |
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Travels with My Aunt
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3.80 avg rating — 17,059 ratings
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Encore
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4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Three Men In A Boat
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3.83 avg rating — 80,281 ratings
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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3.93 avg rating — 79,635 ratings
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A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
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3.79 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
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| 89 |
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 354,182 ratings
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Misty of Chincoteague
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4.07 avg rating — 47,636 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 722,148 ratings
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Croissants and Jam
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4.07 avg rating — 804 ratings
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Black Elk Speaks
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4.12 avg rating — 18,778 ratings
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The Millennium Trilogy (Millennium Trilogy, #1-3)
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4.48 avg rating — 57,581 ratings
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| 95 |
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The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)
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3.60 avg rating — 28,724 ratings
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures During World War II
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4.06 avg rating — 554 ratings
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A Desert between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories
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4.84 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Double Happiness: One Man's Tale of Love, Loss, and Wonder on the Long Roads of China
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3.89 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
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4.21 avg rating — 7,183 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
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4.04 avg rating — 955 ratings
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The next is for people who expect to be busy doing other things, and just want something to fall asleep with. For that sort of traveler, maybe short stories or non-page-turners that will NOT keep you up all night are better.
The third type is the advice for travelers. These are trip-specific books, whether you are traveling to Australia, a country in Europe, a hot spot in the States, or some other location, there's a good chance someone somewhere has written a travel book you may (or may not) find useful.
Curious to see which type the users of this list most prefer. And, are there other types I haven't considered?