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A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 948,809 ratings — published 2015
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,096 ratings — published 1813
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,541,187 ratings — published 2020
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,835 ratings — published 2018
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,542,027 ratings — published 1948
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,038,031 ratings — published 2011
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,755,013 ratings — published 1996
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,052,057 ratings — published 1992
Dracula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,493,772 ratings — published 1897
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,302,948 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,864 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 595,662 ratings — published 2011
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,673,026 ratings — published 2023
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.57 — 3,647,920 ratings — published 2023
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,168,268 ratings — published 2015
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,916 ratings — published 1866
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,483,106 ratings — published 1868
Circe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,376,846 ratings — published 2018
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,001,716 ratings — published 2006
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,422 ratings — published 1890
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,516,196 ratings — published 1997
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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avg rating 3.65 — 714,445 ratings — published 2015
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 288,288 ratings — published 2014
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 986,092 ratings — published 2023
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 284,321 ratings — published 2019
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,186 ratings — published 1954
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 940,894 ratings — published 1878
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,732,303 ratings — published 2025
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
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avg rating 4.46 — 2,759,288 ratings — published 2017
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,279 ratings — published 1967
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,386,023 ratings — published 2022
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,765,385 ratings — published 2018
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,213,548 ratings — published 2020
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 500,377 ratings — published 2018
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,495,576 ratings — published 1937
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,179,399 ratings — published 2017
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,760 ratings — published 1847
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 406,806 ratings — published 2019
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,488 ratings — published 1847
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,036,690 ratings — published 1844
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
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avg rating 3.54 — 280,967 ratings — published 2020
The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.14 — 421,814 ratings — published 1993
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,161,617 ratings — published 1991
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,756 ratings — published 1818
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,244,909 ratings — published 1963
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,429,985 ratings — published 2016
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 954,375 ratings — published 1955
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
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avg rating 4.63 — 3,265,144 ratings — published 2016
“Most people never ‘stop and smell the roses’ because they never get that far down the road.”
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“For a time he stood listening and looking down at the town, at the smoke starting up from the chimneys and the small, diminishing stars in the sky. One of the brightest fell while he was standing there, leaving a streak like a chalk mark on a board for just a second before it vanished.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These








