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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 610,871 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,691,482 ratings — published 1965
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as backburner)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,911 ratings — published 2011
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 631,308 ratings — published 1851
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,587 ratings — published 1866
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as backburner)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,222,045 ratings — published 1954
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,007 ratings — published 2001
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,799,100 ratings — published 1996
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 210,671 ratings — published 2000
Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 901,166 ratings — published 1961
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as backburner)
avg rating 4.16 — 296,415 ratings — published 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,100 ratings — published 1985
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 375,123 ratings — published 180
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 104,930 ratings — published 1996
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 960,246 ratings — published 1878
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,089 ratings — published 1890
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,393 ratings — published 1949
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,594,318 ratings — published 1937
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,899 ratings — published 1967
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,104,262 ratings — published 1992
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 350,642 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,112,185 ratings — published 2007
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 434,591 ratings — published 1995
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 346,668 ratings — published 1977
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 409,105 ratings — published 1879
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,045,010 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 — 1,398,282 ratings — published 2018
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 537,892 ratings — published 2018
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 993,290 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 404,590 ratings — published 1980
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,396,173 ratings — published 1847
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 261,419 ratings — published 2004
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 745,667 ratings — published 1959
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,070,095 ratings — published 1846
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 285,100 ratings — published 2020
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 194,725 ratings — published 2019
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,606,555 ratings — published 2020
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 609,696 ratings — published 1990
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 528,253 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,269,839 ratings — published 1847
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 375,572 ratings — published 1868
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 239,986 ratings — published 1985
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 313,020 ratings — published 1605
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as backburner)
avg rating 4.13 — 530,303 ratings — published 2022
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 195,241 ratings — published 2014
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 205,510 ratings — published 2004
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 443,246 ratings — published 1967
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,357 ratings — published 1963
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 314,457 ratings — published 1989
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 611,580 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