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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,824,864 ratings — published 2005
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 3,918,968 ratings — published 2017
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
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avg rating 4.64 — 3,032,065 ratings — published 2016
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,405,388 ratings — published 1943
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 4,686,231 ratings — published 1813
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,964,401 ratings — published 2009
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,164,673 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,699,804 ratings — published 2007
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,119,369 ratings — published 2015
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,040,132 ratings — published 2007
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,473,173 ratings — published 1988
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 6,745,877 ratings — published 1960
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,036,115 ratings — published 1932
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,799,475 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 845,777 ratings — published 1946
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,020,322 ratings — published 2013
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,926,047 ratings — published 2014
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,811,380 ratings — published 1890
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,278,657 ratings — published 1846
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 972,759 ratings — published 1992
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 882,902 ratings — published 2015
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,077,523 ratings — published 2011
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
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avg rating 4.57 — 749,028 ratings — published 2016
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 235,097 ratings — published 1956
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
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avg rating 4.63 — 1,141,232 ratings — published 2016
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,192,316 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,523,767 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,903,169 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,688,554 ratings — published 2008
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,089,909 ratings — published 1908
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,415,104 ratings — published 1945
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,980,039 ratings — published 2015
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 226,625 ratings — published 2003
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,647,743 ratings — published 2013
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,259,016 ratings — published 2012
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,176,199 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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avg rating 4.58 — 3,592,125 ratings — published 2005
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,785,822 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,829,286 ratings — published 1951
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.35 — 4,058,808 ratings — published 2009
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.57 — 3,262,445 ratings — published 2023
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
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avg rating 4.49 — 438,205 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,289,213 ratings — published 2022
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,800,453 ratings — published 2019
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,365,882 ratings — published 2005
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 704,547 ratings — published 2001
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 1,565,339 ratings — published 1939
“Thingumy and Bob sighed contentedly and settled down to contemplate the precious stone. They stared in silent rapture at it.
The ruby changed colour all the time. At first it was quite pale, and then suddenly a pink glow would flow over it like sunrise on a snow capped mountain -- and then again crimson flames shot out of its heart and it seemed like a great black tulip with stamens on fire.”
― Finn Family Moomintroll
The ruby changed colour all the time. At first it was quite pale, and then suddenly a pink glow would flow over it like sunrise on a snow capped mountain -- and then again crimson flames shot out of its heart and it seemed like a great black tulip with stamens on fire.”
― Finn Family Moomintroll
“Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in soutern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison?”
― The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
