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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,991,342 ratings — published 2005
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,476,359 ratings — published 2017
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
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avg rating 4.63 — 3,524,733 ratings — published 2016
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,623,963 ratings — published 1943
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,139,371 ratings — published 1992
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 5,035,331 ratings — published 1813
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,222,092 ratings — published 2015
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,775,947 ratings — published 1988
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,989,841 ratings — published 2018
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,082,153 ratings — published 1999
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,150,620 ratings — published 1960
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,021,445 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,830,438 ratings — published 2007
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,089,910 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,163,985 ratings — published 1932
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 308,928 ratings — published 1956
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,877,809 ratings — published 1997
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,326,009 ratings — published 2008
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,143,631 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 946,710 ratings — published 1946
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,161,854 ratings — published 1908
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
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avg rating 4.56 — 813,078 ratings — published 2016
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,080,042 ratings — published 2014
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,254,485 ratings — published 2007
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 752,261 ratings — published 1952
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,027,177 ratings — published 1951
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,021,649 ratings — published 1890
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,813,764 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,204,774 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,842,022 ratings — published 1945
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,019,757 ratings — published 2013
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,732,447 ratings — published 2012
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,327,745 ratings — published 1963
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,426,755 ratings — published 1847
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 4,358,599 ratings — published 2009
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.56 — 4,019,683 ratings — published 2023
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,481,776 ratings — published 2022
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 757,410 ratings — published 2001
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
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avg rating 4.63 — 1,432,135 ratings — published 2016
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,288,384 ratings — published 2019
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,577,187 ratings — published 1915
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,533,806 ratings — published 1969
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,661,993 ratings — published 2019
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,649,151 ratings — published 2015
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 242,806 ratings — published 2003
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,169,085 ratings — published 1925
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 454,522 ratings — published 1967
The Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 1,851,288 ratings — published 2024
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 520,431 ratings — published 2011
“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
