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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,160,395 ratings — published 1908
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,865,013 ratings — published 1997
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,423,809 ratings — published 1847
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.20 — 475,590 ratings — published 2013
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,069,674 ratings — published 1999
Bud, Not Buddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as orphan)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,149 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,689,391 ratings — published 1998
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.03 — 588,149 ratings — published 1999
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.22 — 191,784 ratings — published 2007
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,342,739 ratings — published 1911
Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
by (shelved 16 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.05 — 215,439 ratings — published 1880
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,370,759 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,250,228 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 14 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,943,319 ratings — published 2003
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as orphan)
avg rating 3.88 — 438,892 ratings — published 1838
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 13 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,792,681 ratings — published 2005
Pictures of Hollis Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.03 — 30,963 ratings — published 2002
The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as orphan)
avg rating 3.95 — 216,867 ratings — published 2000
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,988,405 ratings — published 2005
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.15 — 572,229 ratings — published 2008
A Little Princess (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.23 — 336,043 ratings — published 1905
James and the Giant Peach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.04 — 530,012 ratings — published 1961
The BFG (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.23 — 542,337 ratings — published 1982
Counting by 7s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.13 — 89,570 ratings — published 2013
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as orphan)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,157,542 ratings — published 2012
The False Prince (Ascendance, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.24 — 114,422 ratings — published 2012
Maniac Magee (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as orphan)
avg rating 3.90 — 129,684 ratings — published 1990
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.03 — 252,181 ratings — published 1999
The Cider House Rules (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.17 — 200,377 ratings — published 1985
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,114,273 ratings — published 2020
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,091,184 ratings — published 2006
The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as orphan)
avg rating 3.60 — 14,223 ratings — published 2006
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,413 ratings — published 1983
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 9 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,315,644 ratings — published 2020
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,723,662 ratings — published 2012
Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.12 — 78,771 ratings — published 1912
The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as orphan)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,616 ratings — published 2000
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.05 — 267,155 ratings — published 1850
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.46 — 915,948 ratings — published 2022
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.22 — 867,620 ratings — published 1862
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,809,564 ratings — published 2018
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,884,235 ratings — published 2018
Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.23 — 236,604 ratings — published 1909
The Thief Lord (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 3.99 — 103,971 ratings — published 2000
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,012,640 ratings — published 2013
The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.14 — 141,869 ratings — published 1924
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,038,023 ratings — published 2012
The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.02 — 178,630 ratings — published 2000
A Single Shard (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as orphan)
avg rating 3.95 — 43,658 ratings — published 2001
A Place to Hang the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as orphan)
avg rating 4.56 — 25,451 ratings — published 2021
“You make an excellent murder suspect. Orphan, turned savior, turned bride, turned killer—I’m actually surprised that wasn’t Kristof’s headline today.”
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
“But Isabel was like no one Nora had met before. She was beautiful, of course---the otherworldly clarity of her English skin!---and possessed of the sort of poise Nora could only dream about. Beyond that, she was magnetic. Try as Nora might, she couldn't resist her brother's new wife. First, there was her voice when she spoke, that crisp accent and authoritative diction that made Miss Perry (strictest in a long line of governesses) seem like a drover's wife by comparison; next, there was her laugh, which rose like bubbles in a glass of champagne.
And then there were her stories. True tales of adventure and daring, rivaling anything Nora had read in her Girls' Crystal Annuals: during the Blitz, Isabel had handled secret papers in Whitehall and later worked in some sort of capacity that she wasn't able to speak of at length (at least not then and there). Even more excitingly, she was an orphan---a real one, just like a girl in a book, whose parents had died in tragic circumstances when she was only young, casting her out of the nest and into a childhood of boarding schools and midnight feasts and hockey sticks and daring japes. Nora couldn't think of anything more romantic.”
― Homecoming
And then there were her stories. True tales of adventure and daring, rivaling anything Nora had read in her Girls' Crystal Annuals: during the Blitz, Isabel had handled secret papers in Whitehall and later worked in some sort of capacity that she wasn't able to speak of at length (at least not then and there). Even more excitingly, she was an orphan---a real one, just like a girl in a book, whose parents had died in tragic circumstances when she was only young, casting her out of the nest and into a childhood of boarding schools and midnight feasts and hockey sticks and daring japes. Nora couldn't think of anything more romantic.”
― Homecoming
