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Hard Crush (Back to You, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,113 ratings — published 2018
Fruit Fly (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 8,176 ratings — published 2026
A Million Times, Yes (The Billionaires of Boston)
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avg rating 3.95 — 14,625 ratings — published 2025
Addicted to You (Addicted, #1)
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avg rating 3.69 — 202,689 ratings — published 2013
Sincerely, Carter (Sincerely Yours, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 37,547 ratings — published 2015
Spearcrest Knight (Spearcrest Kings, #1)
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avg rating 3.41 — 7,234 ratings — published
Where She Is (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.91 — 404 ratings — published 2016
Post-Traumatic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 6,272 ratings — published 2022
Missing Ivy (Missing Ivy #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 174 ratings — published 2026
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 437,171 ratings — published 1993
Made (Manhattan Ruthless #5)
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avg rating 4.14 — 6,666 ratings — published
The Tie That Binds (Serendipity, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 8,079 ratings — published
Little Children (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 33,665 ratings — published 2004
Half His Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.23 — 174,782 ratings — published 2026
By the Letter (Mile High Billionaires, #2)
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avg rating 4.10 — 9,157 ratings — published 2025
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 505,897 ratings — published 2021
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 31,222 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor of Gladness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 83,265 ratings — published 2025
Happy Hour (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 29,009 ratings — published 2020
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,642,938 ratings — published 2020
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,628,738 ratings — published 2003
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 448,453 ratings — published 2020
Say You Swear (Boys of Avix, #1)
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avg rating 4.24 — 267,228 ratings — published 2022
My Favorite Mistake (A Love Like That, #4)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,488 ratings — published
Hello Stranger (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.03 — 9,731 ratings — published 2020
We Shouldn't (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 24,159 ratings — published 2019
Forget Me Not (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.65 — 13,074 ratings — published 2019
The Bonus (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.98 — 51,542 ratings — published 2024
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,994 ratings — published 2011
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 255,091 ratings — published 1864
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,508,805 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 145,983 ratings — published 1938
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 182,731 ratings — published 1883
Accidental Twins (Unintentionally Yours)
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avg rating 4.26 — 2,851 ratings — published
Good Elf Gone Wrong (Wynter Brothers, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 21,006 ratings — published
Infallible (Serendipity, #3)
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avg rating 4.42 — 847 ratings — published
Intoxication (Serendipity, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,273 ratings — published
Flurry (Seattle Blades #2)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,029 ratings — published
Rainfall (Seattle Blades #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 4,688 ratings — published
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.87 — 13,520 ratings — published 1961
Save the Date (Dating, #1)
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avg rating 3.58 — 6,243 ratings — published 2019
Unzipped (Lucky in Love, #4)
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avg rating 3.76 — 7,988 ratings — published 2018
Mama's Boy (Last Man Standing, #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 3,814 ratings — published 2021
Offside Hearts (Love and Hockey, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 29,417 ratings — published 2023
Long Shot (Hoops, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 82,990 ratings — published 2018
His Bittersweet Regret (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.71 — 2,711 ratings — published 2022
Tall, Tatted and Tempting (The Reed Brothers, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 29,275 ratings — published 2013
Model Behavior (Wrecked Roommates, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 10,818 ratings — published 2021
Baden (Pittsburgh Titans, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 5,655 ratings — published 2022
“Those who realize that the house is burning can be led to look with disdain and contempt upon their peers who seem not to realize it. And yet won’t these people who do not see and do not think be precisely the lemurs to whom you will have to answer on the last day? Realizing that the house is burning does not raise you above the others: on the contrary, they are the ones with whom you will have to exchange a last glance when the flames draw nearer. What will you be able to say to justify your supposed conscience to these people who are so unknowing that they almost seem innocent?”
― When the House Burns Down: From the Dialect of Thought
― When the House Burns Down: From the Dialect of Thought
“What seems to lie behind people's mutual contempt and indifference, such that they can kill each other like assassins who don't really feel they're killing, or like soldiers who don't think about what they're doing, is that no one pays heed to the apparently abstruse fact that other people are also living souls.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet