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Eat, Pray, Love
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3.65 avg rating — 1,850,162 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,467,473 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,118,609 ratings
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Shantaram
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4.28 avg rating — 241,682 ratings
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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,039,121 ratings
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 991,217 ratings
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,538,676 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,199,985 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,754,504 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 816,459 ratings
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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 366,100 ratings
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Call Me Irresistible (Wynette, Texas, #6)
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4.10 avg rating — 25,929 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,707,739 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,863,630 ratings
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The Woman in the Castello
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3.44 avg rating — 2,025 ratings
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 3,177,752 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,026,879 ratings
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.24 avg rating — 779,518 ratings
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 451,105 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,260,343 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 448,361 ratings
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 3,469,303 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 727,718 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,168,874 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,138,986 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,942,632 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 — 108,305 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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4.07 avg rating — 122,855 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 — 1,122,840 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 837,119 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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3.81 avg rating — 65,013 ratings
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A Room with a View
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3.89 avg rating — 203,074 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 — 159,522 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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3.57 avg rating — 2,030 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,373,907 ratings
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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
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4.09 avg rating — 515,065 ratings
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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
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4.02 avg rating — 186,008 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 872,357 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 429,966 ratings
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Beach Music
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4.19 avg rating — 55,165 ratings
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When Secrets Bloom (Blood of Kings, Heart of Shadows, #1)
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4.58 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
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3.92 avg rating — 120,290 ratings
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Trinity
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4.30 avg rating — 25,475 ratings
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Out of Africa
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3.91 avg rating — 48,409 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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4.09 avg rating — 97,413 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,520,731 ratings
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This Heart of Mine (Chicago Stars, #5)
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4.08 avg rating — 33,120 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 — 188,651 ratings
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)
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3.63 avg rating — 116,495 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 — 497,827 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 — 398,094 ratings
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 72,437 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 427,339 ratings
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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4.04 avg rating — 212,142 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,305,969 ratings
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The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 203,752 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 — 476,447 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 228,971 ratings
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A Painted House
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3.77 avg rating — 103,025 ratings
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Sarah's Key
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4.18 avg rating — 496,912 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 — 238,914 ratings
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London
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4.09 avg rating — 34,452 ratings
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A Passage to India
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3.67 avg rating — 86,342 ratings
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 300,441 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 — 100,089 ratings
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Time and Again
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3.94 avg rating — 25,567 ratings
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The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 1,383,617 ratings
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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
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3.82 avg rating — 8,784 ratings
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The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
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4.42 avg rating — 1,229,935 ratings
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The Age of Innocence
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3.97 avg rating — 197,865 ratings
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 885,873 ratings
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A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,510 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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4.20 avg rating — 198 ratings
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| 84 |
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Travels with My Aunt
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3.80 avg rating — 17,166 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 — 80,821 ratings
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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3.93 avg rating — 79,927 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 — 2,310 ratings
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| 89 |
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 356,618 ratings
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Misty of Chincoteague
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4.07 avg rating — 47,800 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 730,969 ratings
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Croissants and Jam
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4.07 avg rating — 806 ratings
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| 93 |
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Black Elk Speaks
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4.12 avg rating — 18,886 ratings
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The Millennium Trilogy (Millennium Trilogy, #1-3)
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4.48 avg rating — 57,734 ratings
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| 95 |
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The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)
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3.60 avg rating — 28,757 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 — 557 ratings
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A Desert between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories
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4.73 avg rating — 37 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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3.90 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
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4.21 avg rating — 7,241 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
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4.03 avg rating — 963 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?