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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 338,455 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,822,270 ratings — published 1996
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 217,312 ratings — published 2008
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 235,650 ratings — published 2007
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 873,020 ratings — published 2000
Best Served Cold (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 119,518 ratings — published 2009
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,053,837 ratings — published 1998
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 11 times as grim)
avg rating 4.35 — 757,358 ratings — published 2011
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 126,810 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,000,590 ratings — published 1963
Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,202 ratings — published 2015
Red Country (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 70,659 ratings — published 2012
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
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avg rating 4.18 — 814,671 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,159,052 ratings — published 1932
A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 66,763 ratings — published 2019
The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 179,376 ratings — published 2008
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 54,769 ratings — published 2021
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 554,599 ratings — published 2018
The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 56,757 ratings — published 1984
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 24,778 ratings — published 2003
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,300,870 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,345,011 ratings — published 2009
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 88,933 ratings — published 2025
Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
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avg rating 4.28 — 88,450 ratings — published 2000
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 482,555 ratings — published 2017
The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)
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avg rating 4.59 — 45,194 ratings — published 2021
The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
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avg rating 4.60 — 50,554 ratings — published 2020
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 145,036 ratings — published 1999
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 233,180 ratings — published 2020
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 106,896 ratings — published 2012
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 247,287 ratings — published 1985
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 77,651 ratings — published 2014
The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)
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avg rating 3.74 — 18,748 ratings — published 2008
The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing, #3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,601 ratings — published 2006
The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)
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avg rating 4.00 — 16,304 ratings — published 2004
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 769,554 ratings — published 1938
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,322,871 ratings — published 1954
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 115,736 ratings — published 1984
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,569,225 ratings — published 1985
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 736,096 ratings — published 1983
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,984,932 ratings — published 2005
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,441 ratings — published 1997
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 51,057 ratings — published 1939
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.53 — 112,410 ratings — published 2022
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 63,627 ratings — published 1967
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 36,274 ratings — published 1973
Gunmetal Gods (Gunmetal Gods, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 4,081 ratings — published 2020
“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")”
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“Thyme, or 'dawn in paradise,'
I go there with the dead.
They die by someone else's hand
Whose souls sleep in my bed.”
― The Marsh Queen
I go there with the dead.
They die by someone else's hand
Whose souls sleep in my bed.”
― The Marsh Queen
