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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,046,180 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,221,201 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,777,370 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,023,674 ratings — published 2017
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,419,124 ratings — published 2011
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,112,426 ratings — published 2011
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.57 — 3,695,929 ratings — published 2023
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,555,484 ratings — published 2020
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,247,495 ratings — published 2019
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,325,963 ratings — published 2015
Room (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 841,497 ratings — published 2010
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 206,103 ratings — published 2021
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,454,043 ratings — published 2021
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,173,362 ratings — published 2021
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 2,010,574 ratings — published 2014
City of the Lost (Rockton, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 24,497 ratings — published 2016
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 683,137 ratings — published 2015
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,780,906 ratings — published 2018
Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 335,857 ratings — published 2015
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,708,032 ratings — published 2023
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,141,554 ratings — published 2023
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 493,006 ratings — published 2018
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 111,596 ratings — published 2021
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 195,862 ratings — published 2020
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,914,711 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,212,408 ratings — published 2017
A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 123,426 ratings — published 2018
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,189,280 ratings — published 2015
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 146,461 ratings — published 2017
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,238,156 ratings — published 2012
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2)
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avg rating 4.22 — 201,603 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 353,659 ratings — published 2015
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
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avg rating 4.50 — 521,824 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 846,276 ratings — published 2014
You (You, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 295,550 ratings — published 2014
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
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avg rating 3.59 — 63,960 ratings — published 1960
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 481,900 ratings — published 2013
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,474,675 ratings — published 1985
Defiance (Defiance, #1)
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avg rating 3.67 — 29,124 ratings — published 2012
Legend (Legend, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 567,721 ratings — published 2011
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 136,793 ratings — published 1999
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,151,025 ratings — published 2025
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,335,993 ratings — published 2022
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,342,486 ratings — published 2024
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,312,971 ratings — published 2020
Wrong Place Wrong Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 477,024 ratings — published 2022
Everywhere That Mary Went (Rosato & Associates, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 17,269 ratings — published 1993
The No-Show (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 117,751 ratings — published 2022
The Patient's Secret (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 70,517 ratings — published 2022
The Roughest Draft (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 59,231 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
“Several times over the years Kate would tell me how she saw Grady in her dreams. In the dream Kate would say to her, “You can't be here, Grady, you died.” Inevitably as she said that, Grady would disappear, poof, just like that. I tried to explain to her that she needed to accept Grady into her dreams. She needed to give Grady permission to stay. Until she did, Grady would have to honor what Kate believed to be true. When Kate said, “You can’t be here,” Grady could not stay. That’s the way it works. A loyal dog obeys its master, even beyond the grave.”
― JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
― JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master









