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Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 629,890 ratings — published 2014
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,466,052 ratings — published 2024
All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 60,267 ratings — published 2011
Happy Place (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,564,948 ratings — published 2023
Frizzy: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 13,092 ratings — published 2022
We Deserve Monuments (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 11,389 ratings — published 2022
Circe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,503,833 ratings — published 2018
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 655,119 ratings — published 2021
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 113,520 ratings — published 2020
Family of Liars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 176,600 ratings — published 2022
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,491,894 ratings — published 2017
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,715,525 ratings — published 2020
Great Expectations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 899,248 ratings — published 1861
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,108,660 ratings — published 2014
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 389,236 ratings — published 2011
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,909,694 ratings — published 2012
My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers, #1)
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avg rating 3.87 — 42,953 ratings — published 2009
Luna (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 22,041 ratings — published 2004
Good Enough (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,006 ratings — published 2008
Nightbitch (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 94,823 ratings — published 2021
Patina (Track, #2)
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avg rating 4.15 — 14,939 ratings — published 2017
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,581,830 ratings — published 1915
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,167,505 ratings — published 1932
Where the Girls Were (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,453 ratings — published 2026
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 76,709 ratings — published 2020
Real Americans (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 101,579 ratings — published 2024
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 6,087 ratings — published 2022
The Secret World of Briar Rose (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.15 — 2,721 ratings — published 2026
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,812 ratings — published 2025
Pick a Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.25 — 12,973 ratings — published 2025
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 66,403 ratings — published 2011
Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expectation and Pupils' Intellectual Development (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 30 ratings — published 1968
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 12,147 ratings — published 2014
Walk Two Moons (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 176,101 ratings — published 1994
American Spirits: The Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad that Haunted a Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 456 ratings — published
The Life I'm In (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 814 ratings — published 2021
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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avg rating 3.76 — 500,910 ratings — published 2009
Shut Up, This Is Serious (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,833 ratings — published 2024
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
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avg rating 4.06 — 674,441 ratings — published 2022
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 720,308 ratings — published 1989
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 993,337 ratings — published 2025
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 88,992 ratings — published 1953
Pieces of You (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 6,712 ratings — published 2026
Burn Down Master's House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 23,551 ratings — published 2026
El Deafo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 92,629 ratings — published 2014
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 37,701 ratings — published 2004
The Birds (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 9,336 ratings — published 1957
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 248,508 ratings — published 2025
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
― The Magician King
― The Magician King
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”
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[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”
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