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Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles, #10)
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avg rating 3.74 — 26,491 ratings — published 2003
Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles, #9)
by (shelved 25 times as characters)
avg rating 3.90 — 35,366 ratings — published 2002
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
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avg rating 3.97 — 217,688 ratings — published 2001
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,533,130 ratings — published 1868
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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avg rating 4.40 — 477,025 ratings — published 1969
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 709,566 ratings — published 1952
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,206,754 ratings — published 2015
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,486,334 ratings — published 2017
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,000,522 ratings — published 2015
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,403,529 ratings — published 1847
Anxious People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 873,742 ratings — published 2019
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 279,400 ratings — published 2008
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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avg rating 4.60 — 280,481 ratings — published 1985
The Help (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 3,087,793 ratings — published 2009
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 891,250 ratings — published 2022
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,147,766 ratings — published 1866
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,983,182 ratings — published 2018
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,112,154 ratings — published 1992
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
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avg rating 4.56 — 803,579 ratings — published 2016
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
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avg rating 4.25 — 163,634 ratings — published 2016
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,060,405 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,068,519 ratings — published 2006
Hamlet (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,086,123 ratings — published 1601
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,937,141 ratings — published 1937
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,236,653 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,761,323 ratings — published 1997
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,095,623 ratings — published 1960
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 828,814 ratings — published 2008
The Book of Other People (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.45 — 3,318 ratings — published 2008
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 854,225 ratings — published 2020
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,454,626 ratings — published 2022
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.73 — 630,222 ratings — published 2017
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,090,403 ratings — published 2020
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,222,199 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,155,086 ratings — published 2011
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 718,123 ratings — published 2007
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,548,384 ratings — published 2005
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 410,180 ratings — published 2012
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 837,322 ratings — published 1966
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,116,674 ratings — published 1925
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,115,093 ratings — published 2007
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,078,491 ratings — published 2013
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,370,961 ratings — published 2001
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 439,375 ratings — published 1995
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,006,657 ratings — published 2025
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 1,888,248 ratings — published 2022
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 195,791 ratings — published 2019
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,774,087 ratings — published 1945
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
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avg rating 4.34 — 300,402 ratings — published 2022
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 405,280 ratings — published 2017
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.”
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“When people’s parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of their invented world. (“The day the mirror was talking back”)”
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