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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,334,199 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 4,363,125 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,900,456 ratings — published 2010
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,144,463 ratings — published 2011
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,644,582 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,845 ratings — published 2017
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,504,193 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,919,737 ratings — published 2021
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.56 — 4,031,325 ratings — published 2023
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,289,513 ratings — published 2019
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,890,675 ratings — published 2018
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,404,942 ratings — published 2015
Room (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 850,610 ratings — published 2010
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,939,061 ratings — published 2023
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 214,093 ratings — published 2021
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,221,252 ratings — published 2021
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,081,635 ratings — published 2014
City of the Lost (Rockton, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 25,401 ratings — published 2016
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 693,061 ratings — published 2015
Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 339,806 ratings — published 2015
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 517,994 ratings — published 2018
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 115,440 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,391,647 ratings — published 2011
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 204,876 ratings — published 2020
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,018,859 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,482,898 ratings — published 2017
A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 129,605 ratings — published 2018
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,229,129 ratings — published 2015
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 147,957 ratings — published 2017
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,292,317 ratings — published 2012
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2)
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avg rating 4.21 — 209,666 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 365,529 ratings — published 2015
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
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avg rating 4.51 — 631,336 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,013,443 ratings — published 2014
You (You, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 302,455 ratings — published 2014
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
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avg rating 3.59 — 65,031 ratings — published 1960
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 486,354 ratings — published 2013
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,580,808 ratings — published 1985
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,333,651 ratings — published 2011
Defiance (Defiance, #1)
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avg rating 3.67 — 29,151 ratings — published 2012
Legend (Legend, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 575,700 ratings — published 2011
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 137,808 ratings — published 1999
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,362,124 ratings — published 2025
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,982,143 ratings — published 2025
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,613,711 ratings — published 2022
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,463,016 ratings — published 2024
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 70,338 ratings — published 2009
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,231,935 ratings — published 2023
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,371,866 ratings — published 2020
Wrong Place Wrong Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 505,126 ratings — published 2022
“Only in the present tense is the subject married to its verb. The action—all action, past and future—comes at the end. At the very end, when there is nothing left to do but act.”
― Hausfrau
― Hausfrau
“And first love always happens in the overwhelming first person. How can it not? Also, in the overwhelming present tense. It takes us time to realise that there are other persons, and other tenses.”
― The Only Story
― The Only Story