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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 112,507 ratings — published 1979
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 201,720 ratings — published 2000
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 137,498 ratings — published 2001
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,803 ratings — published 1969
Yellowface (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 1,045,781 ratings — published 2023
Pale Fire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 57,827 ratings — published 1962
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 280,522 ratings — published 1973
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 93,195 ratings — published 1967
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
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avg rating 4.13 — 56,250 ratings — published 2002
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 187,042 ratings — published 2021
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 949,612 ratings — published 1973
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
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avg rating 4.09 — 42,596 ratings — published 2003
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 268,678 ratings — published 2004
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 221,755 ratings — published 1979
Just Stab Me Now (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 5,408 ratings — published 2024
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 167,816 ratings — published 2016
This Book Just Ate My Dog! (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 4,118 ratings — published 2014
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 135,705 ratings — published 2013
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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avg rating 3.72 — 216,422 ratings — published 2012
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
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avg rating 4.16 — 36,085 ratings — published 2004
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 455,887 ratings — published 1817
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 235,177 ratings — published 2019
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 306,418 ratings — published 1615
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 319,204 ratings — published 2000
The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 11,212 ratings — published 2010
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
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avg rating 4.03 — 27,659 ratings — published 2007
The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 20,194 ratings — published 2010
The Woman in the Library (ebook)
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avg rating 3.50 — 88,037 ratings — published 2022
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,440,055 ratings — published 1915
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 283,375 ratings — published 1991
How This Book Was Made (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,529 ratings — published 2016
Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,565 ratings — published 2016
The Book with No Pictures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 31,285 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 591,774 ratings — published 2011
Chloe and the Lion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 3,634 ratings — published 2012
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.45 — 20,411 ratings — published 2010
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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avg rating 3.86 — 87,281 ratings — published 1987
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 132,092 ratings — published 1993
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
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avg rating 3.76 — 230,051 ratings — published 2022
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 27,967 ratings — published 1940
Watchmen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 595,656 ratings — published 1987
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 22,710 ratings — published 1921
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
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avg rating 3.98 — 20,184 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 163,851 ratings — published 2000
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 102,582 ratings — published 2025
Atonement (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 564,952 ratings — published 2001
“For you Mages, this is the apocalypse. It’s the end of the world. For us,’ I indicated my group, ‘it’s Tuesday.”
― Red Hawk
― Red Hawk
“As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.”
― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
















