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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as middle)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,662,837 ratings — published 1937
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as middle)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,918,709 ratings — published 1993
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as middle)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,230,269 ratings — published 2012
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as middle)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,582,878 ratings — published 2005
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as middle)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,098,447 ratings — published 1955
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as middle)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,190,016 ratings — published 1954
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as middle)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,252,923 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as middle)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,897,441 ratings — published 1997
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as middle)
avg rating 4.04 — 352,163 ratings — published 1977
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as middle)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,318,254 ratings — published 1962
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as middle)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,406,234 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as middle)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,086,317 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 25 times as middle)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,956,644 ratings — published 2003
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 25 times as middle)
avg rating 4.55 — 752,915 ratings — published 1955
When You Reach Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as middle)
avg rating 4.08 — 119,110 ratings — published 2009
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as middle)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,704,501 ratings — published 1998
The Crossover (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as middle)
avg rating 4.20 — 70,421 ratings — published 2014
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 23 times as middle)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,384,539 ratings — published 2000
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as middle)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,630,923 ratings — published 2003
The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as middle)
avg rating 4.20 — 180,605 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as middle)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,354,568 ratings — published 1947
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as middle)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,268,475 ratings — published 2008
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as middle)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,200,066 ratings — published 2009
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as middle)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,435,591 ratings — published 2006
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as middle)
avg rating 4.07 — 606,313 ratings — published 1977
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as middle)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,275,441 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as middle)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,261,494 ratings — published 2007
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as middle)
avg rating 3.80 — 468,433 ratings — published 1987
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as middle)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,242,980 ratings — published 1950
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 19 times as middle)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,804,082 ratings — published 2005
The Children of Húrin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as middle)
avg rating 4.07 — 97,310 ratings — published 2007
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as middle)
avg rating 4.02 — 428,053 ratings — published 1997
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as middle)
avg rating 3.88 — 356,148 ratings — published 1960
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as middle)
avg rating 3.86 — 567,278 ratings — published 2001
Starfish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as middle)
avg rating 4.42 — 38,426 ratings — published 2021
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as middle)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,344,995 ratings — published 2008
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as middle)
avg rating 3.95 — 261,620 ratings — published 1970
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as middle)
avg rating 4.03 — 589,303 ratings — published 1999
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as middle)
avg rating 3.99 — 816,135 ratings — published 2007
The Westing Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as middle)
avg rating 3.98 — 243,568 ratings — published 1978
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as middle)
avg rating 4.17 — 956,188 ratings — published 1964
Because of Winn-Dixie (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as middle)
avg rating 4.11 — 287,741 ratings — published 2000
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as middle)
avg rating 4.20 — 639,992 ratings — published 1989
Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as middle)
avg rating 3.93 — 18,305 ratings — published 1981
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as middle)
avg rating 4.15 — 573,122 ratings — published 2008
The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as middle)
avg rating 3.90 — 305,061 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as middle)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,345,686 ratings — published 1911
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as middle)
avg rating 4.11 — 120,824 ratings — published 2016
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as middle)
avg rating 4.13 — 811,559 ratings — published 2002
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as middle)
avg rating 4.27 — 218,833 ratings — published 2012
“Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered.
It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.”
― A Reliable Wife
It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.”
― A Reliable Wife
“Every perfume is made of top, middle, and base notes. Top notes are light, middle notes last longer, base notes last longest. A good perfume has all three, but they have to be in the proper proportions."
The sentences washed over me in a wave of technicalities, but I could feel what she was talking about. It had happened with every scent-paper I'd smelled, the fragrance shifting, telling a story that deepened even as it disappeared. Even nature was that way, if you thought about it- the bright green of the trees giving way to the dark and complicated dirt beneath, the ocean holding the scent of death under all that life.”
― The Scent Keeper
The sentences washed over me in a wave of technicalities, but I could feel what she was talking about. It had happened with every scent-paper I'd smelled, the fragrance shifting, telling a story that deepened even as it disappeared. Even nature was that way, if you thought about it- the bright green of the trees giving way to the dark and complicated dirt beneath, the ocean holding the scent of death under all that life.”
― The Scent Keeper
