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Books to Read in Another Life
All those books that kind friends, other readers, critics and professors, all recommend, good books that are somehow pushed back to 'to read' or begun but abandoned every year... every decade, every century...
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Lanark
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4.10 avg rating — 7,723 ratings
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Reamde
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 56,885 ratings
score: 88,
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,182 ratings
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Porius
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4.27 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Ghost Story
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The Lord of the Sea
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3.23 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Void
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3.75 avg rating — 3,768 ratings
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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
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3.72 avg rating — 2,363 ratings
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 80,689 ratings
score: 20,
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 245,636 ratings
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Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (Canopus in Argos, #1)
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
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4.07 avg rating — 20,797 ratings
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Maul
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3.16 avg rating — 276 ratings
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The Gaze
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Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 4,170 ratings
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Savage Pellucidar (Pellucidar, #7)
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People of the Morning Star (People of Cahokia #1; North America's Forgotten Past #21)
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4.30 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Boy's Life
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4.40 avg rating — 40,310 ratings
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I Am Radar
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3.46 avg rating — 1,604 ratings
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When the World Shook: Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot
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3.64 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Mechanical (The Alchemy Wars, #1)
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Ian Tregillis (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 6,883 ratings
score: 9,
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Vathek
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3.24 avg rating — 7,140 ratings
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America Pacifica
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Anna North (Goodreads Author)
3.10 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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4.02 avg rating — 214,606 ratings
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The Charterhouse of Parma
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3.79 avg rating — 19,633 ratings
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Jun 27, 2014 09:05AM
Nice list, sir! But I think there are many more books that could be added, so if I come across some, I will suggest them (or add them) if that's okay with you.
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