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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 332,390 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,801,906 ratings — published 1996
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 213,435 ratings — published 2008
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 231,376 ratings — published 2007
Best Served Cold (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 117,699 ratings — published 2009
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 867,166 ratings — published 2000
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,046,070 ratings — published 1998
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 126,115 ratings — published 2011
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
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avg rating 4.34 — 752,983 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,963,403 ratings — published 1963
Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,152 ratings — published 2015
Red Country (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 69,487 ratings — published 2012
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
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avg rating 4.17 — 809,311 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,140,178 ratings — published 1932
The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 178,806 ratings — published 2008
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 52,128 ratings — published 2021
A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 65,367 ratings — published 2019
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 540,041 ratings — published 2018
The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 56,299 ratings — published 1984
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 24,498 ratings — published 2003
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,218,662 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,304,306 ratings — published 2009
Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
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avg rating 4.28 — 87,537 ratings — published 2000
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 143,438 ratings — published 1999
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 80,936 ratings — published 2025
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 230,815 ratings — published 2020
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 93,898 ratings — published 2012
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 462,401 ratings — published 2017
The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)
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avg rating 4.60 — 44,046 ratings — published 2021
The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
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avg rating 4.60 — 49,344 ratings — published 2020
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,960 ratings — published 2014
The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)
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avg rating 3.74 — 18,652 ratings — published 2008
The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing, #3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,470 ratings — published 2006
The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)
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avg rating 4.00 — 16,152 ratings — published 2004
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,296,766 ratings — published 1954
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 114,717 ratings — published 1984
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,538,528 ratings — published 1985
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 727,200 ratings — published 1983
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,962,761 ratings — published 2005
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 4,381 ratings — published 1997
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 50,534 ratings — published 1939
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.54 — 109,561 ratings — published 2022
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 35,942 ratings — published 1973
Gunmetal Gods (Gunmetal Gods, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 3,993 ratings — published 2020
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 240,856 ratings — published 1985
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 195,138 ratings — published 2019
The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
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avg rating 4.26 — 191,747 ratings — published 2020
“He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him.”
― Stoner: A Novel
― Stoner: A Novel
“For some people, calling 911 has resulted in the ‘Grim Reaper Cop’ being sent to them.”
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