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Wild River
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4.85 avg rating — 67 ratings
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May 1940: Destination Dunkirk: The Mission of a "Little Ship"
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4.84 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
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3.65 avg rating — 1,855,570 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,483,359 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,125,277 ratings
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Shantaram
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4.28 avg rating — 243,462 ratings
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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,052,773 ratings
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 995,085 ratings
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,550,067 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,206,161 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,770,396 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 820,520 ratings
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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 367,248 ratings
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Call Me Irresistible (Wynette, Texas, #6)
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4.10 avg rating — 26,027 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,712,989 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,867,865 ratings
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The Woman in the Castello
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3.45 avg rating — 2,058 ratings
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 3,193,904 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,029,143 ratings
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.25 avg rating — 782,073 ratings
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 453,467 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,263,415 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 450,667 ratings
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 3,493,573 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 734,163 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,218,019 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,162,867 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,988,114 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 109,402 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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4.07 avg rating — 123,559 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 — 1,132,063 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 842,769 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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3.81 avg rating — 65,212 ratings
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A Room with a View
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3.89 avg rating — 204,427 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 — 160,402 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 — 2,038 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,383,323 ratings
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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
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4.09 avg rating — 516,280 ratings
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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
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4.02 avg rating — 187,503 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 876,307 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 432,594 ratings
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Beach Music
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4.19 avg rating — 55,550 ratings
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When Secrets Bloom (Blood of Kings, Heart of Shadows, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
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3.92 avg rating — 120,766 ratings
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Trinity
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4.30 avg rating — 25,566 ratings
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Out of Africa
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3.91 avg rating — 48,739 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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4.09 avg rating — 97,999 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,543,186 ratings
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This Heart of Mine (Chicago Stars, #5)
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4.08 avg rating — 33,237 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 — 189,442 ratings
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)
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3.63 avg rating — 116,783 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 — 501,187 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 — 400,439 ratings
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 73,186 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 433,085 ratings
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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4.04 avg rating — 212,890 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,314,696 ratings
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The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 204,635 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 — 479,423 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 230,282 ratings
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A Painted House
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3.78 avg rating — 103,570 ratings
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Sarah's Key
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4.18 avg rating — 498,362 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 — 239,679 ratings
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London
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4.09 avg rating — 34,628 ratings
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A Passage to India
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3.68 avg rating — 86,717 ratings
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 302,443 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 — 100,245 ratings
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Time and Again
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3.94 avg rating — 25,768 ratings
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The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 1,395,781 ratings
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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
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3.82 avg rating — 8,794 ratings
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The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
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4.42 avg rating — 1,238,499 ratings
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The Age of Innocence
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3.97 avg rating — 199,573 ratings
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 893,260 ratings
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A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,515 ratings
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Pink Wellies and Flat Caps
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4.05 avg rating — 716 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 — 17,293 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 — 81,364 ratings
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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3.93 avg rating — 80,252 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 — 2,309 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 359,778 ratings
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Misty of Chincoteague
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4.07 avg rating — 47,961 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 739,947 ratings
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Croissants and Jam
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4.07 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Black Elk Speaks
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4.12 avg rating — 18,963 ratings
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The Millennium Trilogy (Millennium Trilogy, #1-3)
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4.48 avg rating — 57,862 ratings
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The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)
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3.60 avg rating — 28,818 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 — 560 ratings
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A Desert between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories
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4.67 avg rating — 46 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 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?