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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 610,888 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,691,517 ratings — published 1965
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as backburner)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,933 ratings — published 2011
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 631,312 ratings — published 1851
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,640 ratings — published 1866
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as backburner)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,222,079 ratings — published 1954
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,017 ratings — published 2001
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,799,152 ratings — published 1996
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 210,672 ratings — published 2000
Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 901,168 ratings — published 1961
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as backburner)
avg rating 4.16 — 296,424 ratings — published 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,152 ratings — published 1985
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 375,146 ratings — published 180
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 104,932 ratings — published 1996
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 960,261 ratings — published 1878
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,186 ratings — published 1890
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,549 ratings — published 1949
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,594,413 ratings — published 1937
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,926 ratings — published 1967
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,104,313 ratings — published 1992
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 350,653 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,112,210 ratings — published 2007
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 434,615 ratings — published 1995
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 346,671 ratings — published 1977
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 409,116 ratings — published 1879
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,045,028 ratings — published 1998
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,398,349 ratings — published 2018
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 537,921 ratings — published 2018
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 993,342 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 404,597 ratings — published 1980
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,396,213 ratings — published 1847
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 261,424 ratings — published 2004
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 745,672 ratings — published 1959
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,070,124 ratings — published 1846
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 285,107 ratings — published 2020
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 194,735 ratings — published 2019
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,606,594 ratings — published 2020
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 609,714 ratings — published 1990
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 528,268 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,269,906 ratings — published 1847
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 375,577 ratings — published 1868
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 239,998 ratings — published 1985
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 313,023 ratings — published 1605
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as backburner)
avg rating 4.13 — 530,325 ratings — published 2022
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 195,243 ratings — published 2014
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 205,512 ratings — published 2004
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 443,264 ratings — published 1967
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,441 ratings — published 1963
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 314,463 ratings — published 1989
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 611,591 ratings — published 1951
“Let me be your midnight, untill the morning comes n you'll go back to him-ur daylight”
― Malioboro at Midnight
― Malioboro at Midnight