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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as peak)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,577,908 ratings — published 1945
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as peak)
avg rating 4.50 — 486,677 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 792,266 ratings — published 2014
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,088,092 ratings — published 1866
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as peak)
avg rating 4.59 — 208,904 ratings — published 2023
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peak)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,037,412 ratings — published 1992
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as peak)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,162,646 ratings — published 2021
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,158,615 ratings — published 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,891,148 ratings — published 1890
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,950,370 ratings — published 2008
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as peak)
avg rating 4.66 — 674,774 ratings — published 2010
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,086,174 ratings — published 2007
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 799,158 ratings — published 1966
Berserk, Vol. 1 (Berserk, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 67,144 ratings — published 1990
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,889,490 ratings — published 2005
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as peak)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,902,485 ratings — published 1818
Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)
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avg rating 4.60 — 359,888 ratings — published 2017
One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 181,004 ratings — published 1997
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,004,906 ratings — published 2011
The Sword of Kaigen (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.44 — 92,916 ratings — published 2019
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
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avg rating 4.76 — 491,605 ratings — published 2014
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,852,935 ratings — published 1953
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 935,636 ratings — published 2015
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,491,304 ratings — published 1943
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peak)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,438,947 ratings — published 1915
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,173,705 ratings — published 2009
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,412,496 ratings — published 1942
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,451,138 ratings — published 2005
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,129,810 ratings — published 2017
No Longer Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 256,957 ratings — published 1948
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 121,823 ratings — published 2019
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 388,882 ratings — published 1880
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,008,091 ratings — published 1999
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as peak)
avg rating 4.56 — 596,835 ratings — published 2008
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,905,242 ratings — published 1951
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 342,950 ratings — published 2006
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,078,555 ratings — published 2025
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
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avg rating 4.54 — 396,487 ratings — published 2016
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
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avg rating 4.77 — 104,402 ratings — published 2023
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,162,691 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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avg rating 4.58 — 1,045,761 ratings — published 1955
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,742,176 ratings — published 1996
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,084,863 ratings — published 1932
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,437,285 ratings — published 1985
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 982,865 ratings — published 2006
Watchmen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 595,534 ratings — published 1987
“I had a mysterious prolonged UTI of unknown cause in 2007 that all medical UTI testing proved negative. A year later in 2008 my doctor was stating ‘He has a plethora of multi-system complaints with no specificity.’ I had been working at an astronomical facility that used a large amount of mercury and had been handling rubber filled mercury systems with no personal protective equipment, such as gloves and respirators. The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) where I worked provided no industry recognized training in the safe handling of mercury.”
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“My body contains the dirty secrets of professional astronomy.”
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