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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,035,794 ratings — published 1979
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,102,488 ratings — published 1932
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
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avg rating 4.38 — 339,833 ratings — published 1996
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 220,237 ratings — published 1967
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,470,491 ratings — published 1985
Matilda (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,123,724 ratings — published 1988
Good Omens (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 831,147 ratings — published 1990
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 799,456 ratings — published 1998
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,565,131 ratings — published 1948
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,483,588 ratings — published 1985
The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
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avg rating 4.06 — 119,655 ratings — published 1958
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 957,115 ratings — published 1955
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
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avg rating 4.54 — 736,883 ratings — published 1959
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,845,743 ratings — published 1590
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,489,305 ratings — published 1868
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,509,666 ratings — published 1937
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,185,312 ratings — published 1954
The Rational Bible: Exodus (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.57 — 1,439 ratings — published
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament & Other Early Christian Literature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 884 ratings — published 1928
Unterleuten (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13,465 ratings — published 2016
Gift (The Copenhagen Trilogy #3)
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avg rating 4.41 — 14,893 ratings — published 1971
Sorrow and Bliss (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 124,923 ratings — published 2020
Vicious (Villains, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 329,608 ratings — published 2013
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 7,937 ratings — published 2023
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,551,455 ratings — published 2020
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 111,428 ratings — published 2021
Reamde (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 57,506 ratings — published 2011
Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 52,929 ratings — published 2003
Lullaby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 104,066 ratings — published 2002
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 152,463 ratings — published 1999
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 42,576 ratings — published 2020
Agency (Jackpot, #2)
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avg rating 3.81 — 14,592 ratings — published 2020
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 36,806 ratings — published 2015
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 189,127 ratings — published 2014
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 33,651 ratings — published 2014
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 45,271 ratings — published 2013
Nexus (Nexus, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 21,120 ratings — published 2012
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 342,718 ratings — published 2009
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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avg rating 4.66 — 689,035 ratings — published 2010
Daemon (Daemon, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 48,922 ratings — published 2006
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 80,967 ratings — published 2009
High Fidelity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 216,711 ratings — published 1995
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,095,031 ratings — published 2007
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 268,700 ratings — published 1980
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 116,126 ratings — published 2002
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 149,751 ratings — published 1960
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 5,429 ratings — published 2007
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 368,881 ratings — published 1984
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,010,478 ratings — published 2006
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 87,235 ratings — published 2024
“...give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories, such as Bell Labs, abolish all job titles. Each professional employee is a "member of technical staff.”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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