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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,606,319 ratings — published 1995
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.15 — 456,740 ratings — published 1997
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.11 — 379,787 ratings — published 2000
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.04 — 424,625 ratings — published 2015
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.07 — 110,713 ratings — published 2006
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.88 — 136,767 ratings — published 2001
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.13 — 695,626 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,750,684 ratings — published 2008
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.74 — 64,745 ratings — published 2014
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.91 — 657,639 ratings — published 1982
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,377,534 ratings — published 2020
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,130,803 ratings — published 2015
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,334,653 ratings — published 2011
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,087,807 ratings — published 2009
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.19 — 231,749 ratings — published 2016
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.13 — 773,334 ratings — published 2002
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,087,384 ratings — published 2012
Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,936 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.89 — 61,575 ratings — published 2014
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.99 — 383,604 ratings — published 2011
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.13 — 55,936 ratings — published 2002
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,705,846 ratings — published 1996
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,661,119 ratings — published 2010
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.92 — 94,505 ratings — published 2009
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,107,564 ratings — published 1950
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.90 — 55,130 ratings — published 2006
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.87 — 252,911 ratings — published 2004
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,610,787 ratings — published 2012
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,003,364 ratings — published 2012
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.16 — 559,093 ratings — published 1996
Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.91 — 43,052 ratings — published 2006
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,770,519 ratings — published 1993
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.57 — 756,115 ratings — published 2016
Wildest Dreams (Fantasyland, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,900 ratings — published 2011
The Golden Dynasty (Fantasyland, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.33 — 33,842 ratings — published 2011
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,740,469 ratings — published 2012
The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.93 — 44,294 ratings — published 2020
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.15 — 109,580 ratings — published 2017
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,284,226 ratings — published 2011
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.06 — 478,759 ratings — published 2008
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,272,628 ratings — published 1962
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,404,448 ratings — published 1937
Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,402 ratings — published 2007
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.29 — 438,456 ratings — published 1986
Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.11 — 37,829 ratings — published 2008
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.22 — 440,365 ratings — published 2020
Written in Red (The Others, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.25 — 64,329 ratings — published 2013
Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.05 — 134,078 ratings — published 2007
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.01 — 164,380 ratings — published 2019
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as alternate-universe)
avg rating 4.30 — 191,441 ratings — published 2017
“He’d spent the night in the boat. Next to the spaghetti queen.
William glanced at the hobo girl. She sat across from him, huddled in a clump. Her stench had gotten worse overnight, probably from the dampness. Another night like the last one, and he might snap and dunk her into that river just to clear the air.
She saw him looking. Dark eyes regarded him with slight scorn.
William leaned forward and pointed at the river. “I don’t know why you rolled in spaghetti sauce,” he said in a confidential voice. “I don’t really care. But that water over there won’t hurt you. Try washing it off.”
She stuck her tongue out.
“Maybe after you’re clean,” he said.
Her eyes widened. She stared at him for a long moment. A little crazy spark lit up in her dark irises. She raised her finger, licked it, and rubbed some dirt off her forehead.
Now what?
The girl showed him her stained finger and reached toward him slowly, aiming for his face.
“No,” William said. “Bad hobo.”
The finger kept coming closer.”
― Bayou Moon
William glanced at the hobo girl. She sat across from him, huddled in a clump. Her stench had gotten worse overnight, probably from the dampness. Another night like the last one, and he might snap and dunk her into that river just to clear the air.
She saw him looking. Dark eyes regarded him with slight scorn.
William leaned forward and pointed at the river. “I don’t know why you rolled in spaghetti sauce,” he said in a confidential voice. “I don’t really care. But that water over there won’t hurt you. Try washing it off.”
She stuck her tongue out.
“Maybe after you’re clean,” he said.
Her eyes widened. She stared at him for a long moment. A little crazy spark lit up in her dark irises. She raised her finger, licked it, and rubbed some dirt off her forehead.
Now what?
The girl showed him her stained finger and reached toward him slowly, aiming for his face.
“No,” William said. “Bad hobo.”
The finger kept coming closer.”
― Bayou Moon
“Rebecca approached the causality violation chamber (too grand a name for such a faulty thing), placed her hand against its door, and closed her eyes, much as Philip had during its christening years ago. There was no response from the machine; no prophecy; no apology; no advice. It did not relay the news from other, brighter timelines. It did not tell her what would have transpired had she returned from yesterday's shopping trip a few hours later, or had she turned the steering wheel left instead of right two years ago, or had she not taken that first drink, or had she turned down any one of the thousands of drinks that had followed, or had she chosen not to respond to Philip's insistent and perhaps deliberately oblivious messages during the early days of their online courtship, or had her parents or her grandparents, or her great-grandparents never met. The machine's obstinate silence was all it had to offer; the message of that silence was that she had made her choices in life, and her choices had made her in return.”
― Version Control
― Version Control
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