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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as peak)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,849,897 ratings — published 2021
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as peak)
avg rating 4.27 — 970,543 ratings — published 2014
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as peak)
avg rating 4.51 — 602,696 ratings — published 2015
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as peak)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,153,732 ratings — published 1866
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as peak)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,210,857 ratings — published 2015
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,796,476 ratings — published 1945
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,119,258 ratings — published 1992
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as peak)
avg rating 4.56 — 283,889 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,996,457 ratings — published 1890
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as peak)
avg rating 4.66 — 723,497 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,262,020 ratings — published 2008
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,170,618 ratings — published 2011
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as peak)
avg rating 4.76 — 529,913 ratings — published 2014
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 413,469 ratings — published 1879
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as peak)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,519,531 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as peak)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,549,320 ratings — published 1915
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,325,211 ratings — published 2009
No Longer Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 286,743 ratings — published 1948
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peak)
avg rating 4.25 — 841,225 ratings — published 1966
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,812,604 ratings — published 1996
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
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avg rating 4.56 — 651,891 ratings — published 2008
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,006,920 ratings — published 1951
Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)
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avg rating 4.60 — 390,949 ratings — published 2017
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,525,580 ratings — published 1969
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as peak)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,117,690 ratings — published 2007
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,417,740 ratings — published 2017
One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peak)
avg rating 4.49 — 192,655 ratings — published 1997
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as peak)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,974,291 ratings — published 2005
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 11 times as peak)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,298,269 ratings — published 2025
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
by (shelved 11 times as peak)
avg rating 4.78 — 139,217 ratings — published 2023
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,997,300 ratings — published 1818
The Sword of Kaigen (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.42 — 112,145 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as peak)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,464,552 ratings — published 2018
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,983,091 ratings — published 1963
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,556,899 ratings — published 2005
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
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avg rating 4.56 — 806,282 ratings — published 2016
Berserk, Vol. 1 (Berserk, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 73,939 ratings — published 1990
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 258,381 ratings — published 1864
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 133,058 ratings — published 2019
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,600,425 ratings — published 1943
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as peak)
avg rating 4.55 — 489,482 ratings — published 2016
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,132,065 ratings — published 1925
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,150,154 ratings — published 1932
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,554,428 ratings — published 1985
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,076,120 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,287,988 ratings — published 1847
“I worked at three high altitude professional astronomy sites. My ranking for the biological toxicity of those sites is: 1) Mauna Kea. 2) Kitt Peak. 3) Roque de los Muchachos.”
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“Professional astronomers were successful in preventing Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from visiting Kitt Peak National Observatory, however it is highly unlikely that they will be successful in building the biologically toxic 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”
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