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The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,585,692 ratings — published 1985
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,509,523 ratings — published 1985
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White Noise White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.86 — 132,725 ratings — published 1985
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.14 — 250,772 ratings — published 1985
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Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.94 — 566,251 ratings — published 1985
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.04 — 592,596 ratings — published 1985
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.61 — 297,715 ratings — published 1985
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Skeleton Crew Skeleton Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.97 — 142,373 ratings — published 1985
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The Cider House Rules The Cider House Rules (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.17 — 200,857 ratings — published 1985
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Galápagos Galápagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.87 — 91,972 ratings — published 1985
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Less Than Zero Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.62 — 107,768 ratings — published 1985
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The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2) The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.12 — 224,532 ratings — published 1985
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.11 — 159,057 ratings — published 1985
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The Accidental Tourist The Accidental Tourist (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.89 — 110,634 ratings — published 1985
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Contact Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.15 — 157,025 ratings — published 1985
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The Polar Express The Polar Express (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.32 — 250,765 ratings — published 1985
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.72 — 98,999 ratings — published 1985
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If Tomorrow Comes (Tracy Whitney, #1) If Tomorrow Comes (Tracy Whitney, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,097 ratings — published 1985
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Satantango (Apocolaypse Quartet, #1) Satantango (Apocolaypse Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,790 ratings — published 1985
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,219 ratings — published 1985
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.84 — 34,802 ratings — published 1985
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...)
by (shelved 7 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.30 — 320,594 ratings — published 1985
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Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune, #6) Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.85 — 89,757 ratings — published 1985
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City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1) City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.74 — 25,284 ratings — published 1985
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The Damnation Game The Damnation Game (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,771 ratings — published 1985
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.39 — 388,305 ratings — published 1986
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The Postman The Postman (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.89 — 38,222 ratings — published 1985
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.26 — 224,682 ratings — published 1985
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Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1) Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.85 — 92,646 ratings — published 1985
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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.51 — 14,276 ratings — published 2013
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The Wishsong of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #3) The Wishsong of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.99 — 56,342 ratings — published 1985
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B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone, #2) B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.89 — 62,970 ratings — published 1985
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Kiki's Delivery Service (Kiki's Delivery Service, #1) Kiki's Delivery Service (Kiki's Delivery Service, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,464 ratings — published 1985
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Twilight Eyes Twilight Eyes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,403 ratings — published 1985
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,359 ratings — published 1985
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Queer Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,855 ratings — published 1985
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Beaches Beaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,415 ratings — published 1985
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Beauty's Release (Sleeping Beauty, #3) Beauty's Release (Sleeping Beauty, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.72 — 30,007 ratings — published 1985
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When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1) When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.02 — 69,219 ratings — published 1985
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Stillwatch Stillwatch (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,442 ratings — published 1984
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Carpenter's Gothic Carpenter's Gothic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,457 ratings — published 1985
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Treasure Island Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,493 ratings — published 1882
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The Bachman Books The Bachman Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.15 — 76,401 ratings — published 1986
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The Tenth Man The Tenth Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,635 ratings — published 1985
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Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.76 — 13,277 ratings — published 1984
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1984 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,820,444 ratings — published 1949
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The White Castle The White Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.48 — 17,645 ratings — published 1985
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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3) The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,914 ratings — published 1987
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The White Rose (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #3) The White Rose (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,333 ratings — published 1985
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A Maggot A Maggot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1985)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,700 ratings — published 1985
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Walter Isaacson
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

Aleister Crowley
“I therefore hold the legendary Jesus in no way responsible for the trouble: it began with Luther, perhaps, and went on with Wesley; but no matter! — what I am trying to get at is the religion which makes England to-day a hell for any man who cares at all for freedom. That religion they call Christianity; the devil they honour they call God. I accept these definitions, as a poet must do, if he is to be at all intelligible to his age, and it is their God and their religion that I hate and will destroy.”
― Aleister Crowley, The World's Tragedy

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