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Basement Books
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as basement)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,495,469 ratings — published 1937
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as basement)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,132 ratings — published 1954
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as basement)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,539,677 ratings — published 2003
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 8 times as basement)
avg rating 4.26 — 991,579 ratings — published 2006
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as basement)
avg rating 3.86 — 563,139 ratings — published 2001
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as basement)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,766 ratings — published 1951
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 8 times as basement)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,140,969 ratings — published 2007
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,413,792 ratings — published 2000
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,493,728 ratings — published 1897
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,539,859 ratings — published 1998
The Pilot's Wife (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 3.57 — 102,784 ratings — published 1998
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,293,420 ratings — published 1962
Paper Towns (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,499,101 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,235,145 ratings — published 2000
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,706 ratings — published 1847
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,686,658 ratings — published 2005
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,268 ratings — published 1847
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,754,957 ratings — published 1996
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,225 ratings — published 1951
Deception Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 3.77 — 703,166 ratings — published 2001
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as basement)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,895,706 ratings — published 1999
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.90 — 598,779 ratings — published 2013
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.71 — 667,459 ratings — published 1998
Snow Falling on Cedars (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,105 ratings — published 1994
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,298 ratings — published 1954
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,139,964 ratings — published 1954
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.35 — 837,609 ratings — published 1989
The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #6)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,202 ratings — published 1931
The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,557 ratings — published 1930
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,832,248 ratings — published 1993
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.85 — 544,634 ratings — published 1882
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,952,648 ratings — published 2002
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,481,201 ratings — published 1985
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.89 — 278,804 ratings — published 1869
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.14 — 229,462 ratings — published 2003
The Rainmaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.02 — 208,953 ratings — published 1995
The Runaway Jury (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.03 — 315,803 ratings — published 1996
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,468,877 ratings — published 2005
A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.12 — 828,449 ratings — published 1989
Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.11 — 418,364 ratings — published 2008
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.19 — 598,501 ratings — published 1990
The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,983 ratings — published 1991
Prelude to Foundation (Foundation, #6)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.17 — 97,174 ratings — published 1988
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,828,024 ratings — published 2003
Timeline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.87 — 217,993 ratings — published 1999
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as basement)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,469,325 ratings — published 2002
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as basement)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,869 ratings — published 1866
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as basement)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,859,956 ratings — published 1813
Mary, Mary (Alex Cross, #11)
by (shelved 5 times as basement)
avg rating 4.02 — 61,756 ratings — published 2005
Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7)
by (shelved 5 times as basement)
avg rating 4.16 — 133,864 ratings — published 2001
“My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.”
― The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
― The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
“Magic?" What did magic have to do with breaking into someone's store and stealing their stuff?
"Don't you get it?" Peter said. "You're free now. You don't have to live by their rules anymore." Peter pointed into the inky blackness of the basement. "The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race, listen to it. That's the sound of being alive. It's your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it's all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can't-do-this, and can't-do-that's, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.”
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"Don't you get it?" Peter said. "You're free now. You don't have to live by their rules anymore." Peter pointed into the inky blackness of the basement. "The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race, listen to it. That's the sound of being alive. It's your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it's all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can't-do-this, and can't-do-that's, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.”
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