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The Penelopiad
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 84,560 ratings
score: 283,
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
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4.06 avg rating — 14,667 ratings
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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3.51 avg rating — 674,240 ratings
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Ophelia
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3.71 avg rating — 12,209 ratings
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Grendel
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3.69 avg rating — 41,943 ratings
score: 193,
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Gertrude and Claudius
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3.56 avg rating — 2,498 ratings
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H: The Story of Heathcliff's Journey Back to Wuthering Heights
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Lin Haire-Sargeant (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 482 ratings
score: 188,
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De groten der aarde of Bentinck tegen Bentinck; een geschiedverhaal
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3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Havisham
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3.10 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
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The Third Witch
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3.72 avg rating — 689 ratings
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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4.04 avg rating — 92,409 ratings
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Ophelia's Revenge
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3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 99,
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Toil and Trouble
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Mairghread Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Longbourn
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Jo Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 61,853 ratings
score: 98,
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The Wind Done Gone
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3.16 avg rating — 2,222 ratings
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Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)
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Christina Henry (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 51,107 ratings
score: 98,
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Till We Have Faces
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4.20 avg rating — 78,564 ratings
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
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3.34 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
score: 97,
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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
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3.95 avg rating — 7,645 ratings
score: 97,
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Heartless
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 249,016 ratings
score: 97,
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Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story
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3.40 avg rating — 329 ratings
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An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, #1)
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Pamela Aidan (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 14,551 ratings
score: 97,
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De thuiskomst
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3.84 avg rating — 2,314 ratings
score: 96,
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Romeo's Ex: Rosaline's Story
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3.60 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
score: 96,
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 136,558 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Lavinia
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3.86 avg rating — 16,761 ratings
score: 96,
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A Thousand Acres
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Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 71,813 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.59 avg rating — 104,739 ratings
score: 95,
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Hatter M, Volume 1: The Looking Glass Wars (Hatter M, #1)
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Frank Beddor (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 2,515 ratings
score: 95,
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The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 109,349 ratings
score: 95,
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The Rape of Tamar
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3.48 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 94,
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Medea
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3.92 avg rating — 4,846 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Joseph Andrews
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3.28 avg rating — 6,009 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Cassandra
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3.87 avg rating — 6,734 ratings
score: 93,
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Het Woud der Verwachting: Het leven van Charles van Orléans
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4.09 avg rating — 2,645 ratings
score: 92,
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Jacoba, dochter van Holland
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3.67 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
score: 91,
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Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)
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4.16 avg rating — 129,156 ratings
score: 91,
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Charlotte Sophie Bentinck
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3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 90,
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Queen of Hearts (Queen of Hearts Saga, #1)
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Colleen Oakes (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 12,140 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Lilian's Story
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3.70 avg rating — 1,665 ratings
score: 89,
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
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4.32 avg rating — 195,060 ratings
score: 89,
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Dark Places
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3.66 avg rating — 651 ratings
score: 88,
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6 voters ·
list created June 16th, 2015
by Racine Zackula (votes) .
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