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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,259,941 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,324,151 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,866,219 ratings — published 2010
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,136,310 ratings — published 2011
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,041,911 ratings — published 2017
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,483,732 ratings — published 2011
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.56 — 3,938,057 ratings — published 2023
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,847,498 ratings — published 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,621,737 ratings — published 2020
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,278,734 ratings — published 2019
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,384,777 ratings — published 2015
Room (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 848,471 ratings — published 2010
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,877,630 ratings — published 2023
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 212,200 ratings — published 2021
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,210,431 ratings — published 2021
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,065,662 ratings — published 2014
City of the Lost (Rockton, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 25,155 ratings — published 2016
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 690,834 ratings — published 2015
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,864,207 ratings — published 2018
Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 338,893 ratings — published 2015
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 511,462 ratings — published 2018
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 114,578 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,375,498 ratings — published 2011
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 202,989 ratings — published 2020
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,992,151 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,415,703 ratings — published 2017
A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 128,142 ratings — published 2018
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,219,738 ratings — published 2015
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 147,633 ratings — published 2017
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,277,367 ratings — published 2012
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2)
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avg rating 4.21 — 207,806 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 362,796 ratings — published 2015
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
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avg rating 4.51 — 601,806 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 969,208 ratings — published 2014
You (You, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 300,172 ratings — published 2014
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
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avg rating 3.59 — 64,738 ratings — published 1960
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 485,273 ratings — published 2013
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,553,615 ratings — published 1985
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,314,819 ratings — published 2011
Defiance (Defiance, #1)
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avg rating 3.66 — 29,153 ratings — published 2012
Legend (Legend, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 573,796 ratings — published 2011
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 137,435 ratings — published 1999
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,296,911 ratings — published 2025
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,923,270 ratings — published 2025
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,569,186 ratings — published 2022
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,439,483 ratings — published 2024
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 69,530 ratings — published 2009
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,208,091 ratings — published 2023
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,357,238 ratings — published 2020
Wrong Place Wrong Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 497,883 ratings — published 2022
“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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“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