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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
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Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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Room
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 1,346,116 ratings
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The Night Circus
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Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)
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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen (Goodreads Author)
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
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The Color Purple
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The Poisonwood Bible
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Still Alice
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Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 358,694 ratings
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The Red Tent
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Anita Diamant (Goodreads Author)
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,378,661 ratings
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The Road
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The Great Gatsby
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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Helen Simonson (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 144,987 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 821,348 ratings
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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David Guterson (Goodreads Author)
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I Know This Much Is True
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Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author)
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American Psycho
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A Clockwork Orange
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The Reader
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Rebecca
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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Factotum
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 385,062 ratings
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 335,118 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 325,307 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 562,937 ratings
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A Fine Balance
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Wasp Factory
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Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
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Requiem for a Dream
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The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
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Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)
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Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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Jojo Moyes (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,783,599 ratings
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 136,806 ratings
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1984
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 313,813 ratings
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Rules of Civility
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Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 267,553 ratings
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Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
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Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
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House of Spies (Gabriel Allon, #17)
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
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Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 423,141 ratings
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Lunar Park
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 637,269 ratings
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Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
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Joanne Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 130,639 ratings
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Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1)
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Year of Wonders
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 174,015 ratings
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The Paris Wife
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Paula McLain (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 304,145 ratings
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Watchers
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 171,271 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 230,962 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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4.30 avg rating — 507,104 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
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Invisible Monsters
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,942,916 ratings
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The Lacuna
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3.82 avg rating — 73,908 ratings
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 433,818 ratings
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 95,927 ratings
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
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Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 177,835 ratings
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Midnight Sacrifice (Midnight, #2)
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Melinda Leigh (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 20,720 ratings
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A Merciful Truth (Mercy Kilpatrick, #2)
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Kendra Elliot (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 32,831 ratings
score: 837,
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Fahrenheit 451
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Left Neglected
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Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 80,700 ratings
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My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1)
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Robert Dugoni (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 166,701 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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The 7th Canon
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Robert Dugoni (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 27,252 ratings
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A Merciful Secret (Mercy Kilpatrick, #3)
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Kendra Elliot (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 29,659 ratings
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Her Final Breath (Tracy Crosswhite, #2)
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Robert Dugoni (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 69,849 ratings
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Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
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Alan Brennert (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 139,720 ratings
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Peace Like a River
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Crime and Punishment
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The Lovely Bones
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Birdsong
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In Farleigh Field
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 71,411 ratings
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
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Christopher Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 180,985 ratings
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Of Human Bondage
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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A Merciful Death (Mercy Kilpatrick, #1)
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Kendra Elliot (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 57,065 ratings
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The Body Reader (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries, #1)
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Anne Frasier (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 33,395 ratings
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Close to Home (Tracy Crosswhite, #5)
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Robert Dugoni (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 45,384 ratings
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Orphan Train
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Christina Baker Kline (Goodreads Author)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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The Gargoyle
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Andrew Davidson (Goodreads Author)
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The Sense of an Ending
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All My Life (First Things, #1)
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Rucy Ban (Goodreads Author)
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The Crooked Heart of Mercy
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Billie Livingston (Goodreads Author)
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Persuasion
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So glad I found this list. Growing weary of clicking on lists that promise great books to see, yet again, 50 Shades of the Twilight Games of Harry Potter. I'm all for folks reading what they want to read, and no one should be ashamed of what they like...but I wish more list-makers would specify Young Adult/Teen or Adult and then list-adders would adhere. Better if this were called great books though....no time for things that are just decent! But some great suggestions - thanks!
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Certainly some of these books ARE great. But a list of just the stuff I think is great would be brief.Plus, you'll note a couple of books on this list that are so bad... so poorly written and dull... they don't belong on a list of decent - let alone "great" books.
I agree with you about the YA and ADULT tagging. I am thrilled that there is so much YA lit out there these days, (even if it is all supernatural soft-porn) I just don't want to read it.
I've read some of the book in this list (10 of 521) and they were good. There were some titles also of books that I've heard and would like to read one day. Most of the titles however are books I haven't heard of before....Good effort for putting all these books together...
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