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The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,768,810 ratings — published 1988
Piranesi (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 590,713 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 412,964 ratings — published 2016
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,637,470 ratings — published 2020
The Dispossessed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 164,242 ratings — published 1974
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 211,120 ratings — published 2013
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 294,594 ratings — published 1950
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 549,126 ratings — published 2022
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,984,557 ratings — published 2018
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,572,407 ratings — published 1985
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 667,381 ratings — published 2013
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 848,661 ratings — published 1966
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 571,130 ratings — published 1984
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 276,172 ratings — published 2004
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 106,384 ratings — published 2012
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,284,133 ratings — published 2012
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 572,158 ratings — published 2008
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 579,275 ratings — published 2002
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,015,355 ratings — published 1890
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,879,906 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,987,316 ratings — published 2005
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
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avg rating 3.94 — 147,185 ratings — published 1982
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,531,883 ratings — published 1969
Eleven Minutes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 195,653 ratings — published 2003
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 292,996 ratings — published 1991
The Giver (Giver, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,911,309 ratings — published 1993
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,303,645 ratings — published 1847
Theo of Golden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 672,611 ratings — published 2023
In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,192 ratings — published 2021
Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 39,488 ratings — published 2026
The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 4,157 ratings — published
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 724,559 ratings — published 1995
The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 11,004 ratings — published 1999
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,148,250 ratings — published 1997
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 3,368 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 918,881 ratings — published 2005
A House in the Sky (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 75,648 ratings — published 2013
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 246,431 ratings — published 1999
Shubeik Lubeik (ebook)
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avg rating 4.49 — 5,385 ratings — published 2022
Between Heaven And Earth: Poems about Losing & Finding Yourself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 214 ratings — published
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 162,691 ratings — published 1994
The Reason You Walk (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,485 ratings — published 2015
There Are Rivers in the Sky (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 110,090 ratings — published 2024
Mother Mary Comes to Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 40,309 ratings — published 2025
The Liar (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 55,714 ratings — published 2015
Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 168 ratings — published 1998
The Break (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 23,164 ratings — published 2016
So Old, So Young (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 36,970 ratings — published 2026
“By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved.
I am the one who wakes up in the morning.
Always.
Every morning.
I don’t die.
I just become increasingly unlikely.”
― Divided by Infinity
I am the one who wakes up in the morning.
Always.
Every morning.
I don’t die.
I just become increasingly unlikely.”
― Divided by Infinity
“Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy
as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend”
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as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend”
―
