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Nomads Colony in Paradise Island: A poignant tale of romance and remote working on the enchanting paradise island of Sri Lanka
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4.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Wild River
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4.89 avg rating — 98 ratings
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May 1940: Destination Dunkirk: The Mission of a "Little Ship"
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4.80 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
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3.65 avg rating — 1,861,862 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,500,658 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,132,984 ratings
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Shantaram
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4.28 avg rating — 245,358 ratings
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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,070,258 ratings
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 999,345 ratings
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,564,730 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,213,486 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,788,740 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 824,703 ratings
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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 368,553 ratings
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Call Me Irresistible (Wynette, Texas, #6)
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4.10 avg rating — 26,123 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,718,944 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,872,227 ratings
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The Woman in the Castello
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3.45 avg rating — 2,106 ratings
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 3,211,696 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,032,167 ratings
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.25 avg rating — 785,085 ratings
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 456,123 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,266,834 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 453,673 ratings
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 3,521,323 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 741,156 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.89 avg rating — 2,252,577 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,191,519 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 7,043,649 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 110,633 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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4.07 avg rating — 124,360 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.06 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,141,785 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 849,302 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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3.81 avg rating — 65,483 ratings
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A Room with a View
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3.89 avg rating — 206,116 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 — 161,410 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 — 2,044 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,394,453 ratings
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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
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4.09 avg rating — 517,486 ratings
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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 189,158 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 881,681 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 435,266 ratings
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Beach Music
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4.19 avg rating — 56,006 ratings
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When Secrets Bloom (Blood of Kings, Heart of Shadows, #1)
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4.55 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
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3.92 avg rating — 121,272 ratings
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Trinity
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4.30 avg rating — 25,695 ratings
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Out of Africa
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3.91 avg rating — 49,106 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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4.09 avg rating — 98,684 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,570,058 ratings
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This Heart of Mine (Chicago Stars, #5)
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4.08 avg rating — 33,323 ratings
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Viajes ficcionalizados 1: París-Bruselas-Estocolmo-Berna-Liechtenstein
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4.13 avg rating — 76 ratings
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House Rules
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4.04 avg rating — 191,393 ratings
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)
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3.63 avg rating — 117,124 ratings
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Lo que me llevo del desierto no es arena
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4.09 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
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3.79 avg rating — 505,225 ratings
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The Thinking Tank
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4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 403,118 ratings
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 74,172 ratings
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Lucky: A Kiwi Memoir
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4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 439,474 ratings
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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4.04 avg rating — 213,818 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,324,539 ratings
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The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 205,505 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 — 482,833 ratings
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GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS : A Fat Bastard’s Guide to Trekking in Northern South America
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4.48 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 231,631 ratings
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A Painted House
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3.78 avg rating — 104,814 ratings
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Sarah's Key
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4.18 avg rating — 500,011 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 — 240,662 ratings
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London
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4.09 avg rating — 34,788 ratings
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A Passage to India
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3.68 avg rating — 87,174 ratings
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 304,795 ratings
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Railonama
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3.96 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Birth of Venus
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3.81 avg rating — 100,427 ratings
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Time and Again
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3.94 avg rating — 25,947 ratings
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The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 1,407,593 ratings
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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
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3.82 avg rating — 8,808 ratings
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The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
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4.42 avg rating — 1,247,229 ratings
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The Age of Innocence
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3.97 avg rating — 201,460 ratings
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Siddhartha
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4.09 avg rating — 901,899 ratings
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A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,528 ratings
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Pink Wellies and Flat Caps
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4.06 avg rating — 718 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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4.20 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Travels with My Aunt
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3.80 avg rating — 17,464 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 — 82,029 ratings
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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3.93 avg rating — 80,631 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 — 2,313 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 362,846 ratings
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Misty of Chincoteague
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4.08 avg rating — 48,160 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 750,249 ratings
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Croissants and Jam
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4.07 avg rating — 809 ratings
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Black Elk Speaks
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4.12 avg rating — 19,038 ratings
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The Millennium Trilogy (Millennium Trilogy, #1-3)
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4.48 avg rating — 57,965 ratings
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The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)
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3.60 avg rating — 28,874 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?