182 books
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99 voters
Present Tense Books
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,756,567 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.35 — 4,090,601 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,663,575 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,000,083 ratings — published 2017
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,336,542 ratings — published 2011
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,085,749 ratings — published 2011
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,456,787 ratings — published 2020
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,249,769 ratings — published 2015
Room (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 830,899 ratings — published 2010
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.57 — 3,354,899 ratings — published 2023
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 195,050 ratings — published 2021
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,009,574 ratings — published 2021
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,125,893 ratings — published 2021
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,205,146 ratings — published 2019
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,942,364 ratings — published 2014
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 673,846 ratings — published 2015
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,684,296 ratings — published 2018
Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 332,113 ratings — published 2015
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,462,824 ratings — published 2023
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,054,854 ratings — published 2023
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 471,574 ratings — published 2018
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 107,546 ratings — published 2021
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 184,239 ratings — published 2020
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,821,077 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 3,979,115 ratings — published 2017
City of the Lost (Rockton, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 23,812 ratings — published 2016
A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 117,700 ratings — published 2018
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,153,281 ratings — published 2015
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 145,115 ratings — published 2017
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,191,834 ratings — published 2012
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2)
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avg rating 4.22 — 194,023 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
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avg rating 4.24 — 342,254 ratings — published 2015
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
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avg rating 4.49 — 442,343 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 721,045 ratings — published 2014
You (You, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 288,916 ratings — published 2014
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
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avg rating 3.59 — 63,107 ratings — published 1960
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 477,803 ratings — published 2013
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,377,862 ratings — published 1985
Defiance (Defiance, #1)
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avg rating 3.67 — 29,045 ratings — published 2012
Legend (Legend, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 560,553 ratings — published 2011
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 135,999 ratings — published 1999
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,161,557 ratings — published 2022
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,217,405 ratings — published 2024
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,253,737 ratings — published 2020
Wrong Place Wrong Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 451,095 ratings — published 2022
Everywhere That Mary Went (Rosato & Associates, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 16,949 ratings — published 1993
The No-Show (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 113,887 ratings — published 2022
The Patient's Secret (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 63,849 ratings — published 2022
The Roughest Draft (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 58,376 ratings — published 2022
The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
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avg rating 3.92 — 128,263 ratings — published 2021
“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
“The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present.”
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