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A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 971,690 ratings — published 2015
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,916,285 ratings — published 1813
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,623,931 ratings — published 1948
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,576,018 ratings — published 2020
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,367,588 ratings — published 2018
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,079,258 ratings — published 1992
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,086,686 ratings — published 2011
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,413,656 ratings — published 2015
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,777,633 ratings — published 1996
Dracula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,511,724 ratings — published 1897
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.57 — 3,766,396 ratings — published 2023
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,297,415 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 603,618 ratings — published 2011
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,032,565 ratings — published 2006
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,504,899 ratings — published 1868
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,185,185 ratings — published 2015
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,120,278 ratings — published 1866
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,759,402 ratings — published 2023
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,234,061 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,943,658 ratings — published 1890
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 296,667 ratings — published 2014
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,622,554 ratings — published 1997
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,201,699 ratings — published 1954
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,053,350 ratings — published 1846
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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avg rating 3.65 — 737,138 ratings — published 2015
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 290,419 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,405,410 ratings — published 2018
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 951,067 ratings — published 1878
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,033,334 ratings — published 2023
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,372,567 ratings — published 1847
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,814,774 ratings — published 2025
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,418,512 ratings — published 2022
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
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avg rating 4.46 — 2,833,617 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,955,083 ratings — published 1818
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,546,137 ratings — published 1937
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,805,138 ratings — published 2018
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
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avg rating 4.63 — 3,349,944 ratings — published 2016
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,248,640 ratings — published 2020
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,170,854 ratings — published 1991
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,128,435 ratings — published 1967
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
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avg rating 3.54 — 284,402 ratings — published 2020
Emma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,004,823 ratings — published 1815
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 412,905 ratings — published 2019
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,667,350 ratings — published 1988
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 520,343 ratings — published 2018
The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.14 — 427,130 ratings — published 1993
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 2,259,438 ratings — published 2015
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 207,171 ratings — published 2000
“Nevertheless, death asks us to pause. It doesn’t tell us what we need to do when we pause (there may be nothing to do at all), but it asks us to be in its presence. To sit with it. Listen to it. To lay aside chronos and embrace kairos.”
― Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
― Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
“Every silence is a form of punishment in its own way, but the silence that lingers between two pauses is the most lethal of all—heavy with unspoken words, unresolved emotions, and the weight of what was left unsaid.”
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