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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 114,647 ratings — published 1979
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 206,701 ratings — published 2000
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 138,309 ratings — published 2001
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,504,800 ratings — published 1969
Yellowface (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 1,101,224 ratings — published 2023
Pale Fire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 58,839 ratings — published 1962
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 283,174 ratings — published 1973
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 93,777 ratings — published 1967
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
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avg rating 4.13 — 56,516 ratings — published 2002
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 192,822 ratings — published 2021
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 956,182 ratings — published 1973
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
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avg rating 4.09 — 42,792 ratings — published 2003
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 271,840 ratings — published 2004
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 224,447 ratings — published 1979
Just Stab Me Now (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 5,770 ratings — published 2024
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 173,054 ratings — published 2016
This Book Just Ate My Dog! (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 4,130 ratings — published 2014
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 137,874 ratings — published 2013
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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avg rating 3.72 — 217,483 ratings — published 2012
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
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avg rating 4.16 — 36,208 ratings — published 2004
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 463,243 ratings — published 1817
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 238,749 ratings — published 2019
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 310,378 ratings — published 1605
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.45 — 20,632 ratings — published 2010
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 323,064 ratings — published 2000
The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 11,227 ratings — published 2010
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
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avg rating 4.03 — 27,769 ratings — published 2007
The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 20,225 ratings — published 2010
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 242,779 ratings — published 2022
The Woman in the Library (ebook)
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avg rating 3.50 — 89,624 ratings — published 2022
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,485,475 ratings — published 1915
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 286,935 ratings — published 1991
How This Book Was Made (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,537 ratings — published 2016
Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,574 ratings — published 2016
The Book with No Pictures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 31,657 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 602,595 ratings — published 2011
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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avg rating 3.86 — 88,586 ratings — published 1987
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 133,326 ratings — published 1993
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 74,690 ratings — published 2020
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,486 ratings — published 1940
Chloe and the Lion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 3,640 ratings — published 2012
Watchmen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 600,586 ratings — published 1987
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 23,051 ratings — published 1921
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
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avg rating 3.99 — 20,278 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 165,384 ratings — published 2000
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 123,160 ratings — published 2025
Atonement (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 571,052 ratings — published 2001
“It's hard to know what a book is. Inside, a slender span of clock time is stored incognito. The book sits among others on the shelf for decades until its pages grow sclerotic, unable to turn; its relevance fades. Its story might manage to slide into the next book on the shelf and commune with this new book. Life contains many more surprising liberations than this. Out of that mingling, a new story arises, holding more joy than the first. Its afterword glows.”
― Mice 1961
― Mice 1961
“I feel sick when I look at the parody synopsis, at the letters from the film company... The novel is 'about' a colour problem. I said nothing in it that wasn't true. But the emotion it came out of was something frightening, the unhealthy, feverish illicit excitement of wartime, a lying nostalgia, a longing for licence, for freedom, for the jungle, for formlessness. It is so clear to me that I can't read that novel now without feeling ashamed, as if I were in a street naked. Yet no one else seems to see it. Not one of the reviewers saw it. Not one of my cultivated and literary friends saw it. It is an immoral novel because that terrible lying nostalgia lights every sentence.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
