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Saga #1
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4.20 avg rating — 50,078 ratings
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Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
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G. Willow Wilson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 92,322 ratings
score: 781,
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Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
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N.D. Stevenson (Creator)
3.91 avg rating — 80,327 ratings
score: 677,
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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4.24 avg rating — 1,973,201 ratings
score: 492,
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Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery
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Kurtis J. Wiebe (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 45,403 ratings
score: 487,
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Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine (Bitch Planet Collected Editions, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 24,853 ratings
score: 395,
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 227,659 ratings
score: 393,
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American Born Chinese
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Gene Luen Yang (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 100,884 ratings
score: 296,
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 199,822 ratings
score: 289,
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 212,117 ratings
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The Children's Hour
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3.97 avg rating — 14,877 ratings
score: 197,
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,412,184 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,162 ratings
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Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: In Pursuit of Flight
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3.85 avg rating — 8,851 ratings
score: 195,
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 617,673 ratings
score: 194,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 483,521 ratings
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Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon
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4.15 avg rating — 53,085 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.90 avg rating — 1,814,174 ratings
score: 191,
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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 583,407 ratings
score: 190,
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 276,924 ratings
score: 190,
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Girl, Interrupted
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3.94 avg rating — 273,613 ratings
score: 188,
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Jeffrey
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Paul Rudnick (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 280 ratings
score: 100,
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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
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3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health
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4.23 avg rating — 31,039 ratings
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Home (Gilead, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 29,962 ratings
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All the Silent Spaces: A Memoir
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Christine Ristaino (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 50 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
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Cherríe L. Moraga (Editor)
4.52 avg rating — 9,738 ratings
score: 99,
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A History of the Wife
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3.84 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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Mastery
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Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 47,984 ratings
score: 99,
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
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Brian K. Vaughan (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 118,713 ratings
score: 98,
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NW
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3.48 avg rating — 44,944 ratings
score: 98,
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Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom
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4.12 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 744,998 ratings
score: 97,
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Gotham City Sirens: Book One
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Paul Dini (Writer)
4.08 avg rating — 2,028 ratings
score: 97,
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
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Paul Tough (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 4,392 ratings
score: 97,
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Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,978 ratings
score: 97,
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White Oleander
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Janet Fitch (Goodreads Author)
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score: 96,
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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3.83 avg rating — 5,649 ratings
score: 96,
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
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4.10 avg rating — 2,978 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
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3.81 avg rating — 380,916 ratings
score: 94,
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
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3.80 avg rating — 11,864 ratings
score: 93,
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 209,826 ratings
score: 91,
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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3.89 avg rating — 26,495 ratings
score: 90,
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A Piece of Cake
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4.25 avg rating — 38,225 ratings
score: 89,
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