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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,335,167 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 4,363,734 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,900,965 ratings — published 2010
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,144,542 ratings — published 2011
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,644,850 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,918 ratings — published 2017
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,504,431 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,920,451 ratings — published 2021
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.56 — 4,032,734 ratings — published 2023
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,289,648 ratings — published 2019
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,890,981 ratings — published 2018
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,405,198 ratings — published 2015
Room (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 850,639 ratings — published 2010
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,939,948 ratings — published 2023
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 214,121 ratings — published 2021
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,221,378 ratings — published 2021
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,081,837 ratings — published 2014
City of the Lost (Rockton, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 25,408 ratings — published 2016
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 693,084 ratings — published 2015
Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 339,819 ratings — published 2015
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 518,073 ratings — published 2018
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 115,450 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,391,818 ratings — published 2011
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 204,904 ratings — published 2020
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,019,242 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,483,601 ratings — published 2017
A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 129,621 ratings — published 2018
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,229,240 ratings — published 2015
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 147,963 ratings — published 2017
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,292,513 ratings — published 2012
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2)
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avg rating 4.21 — 209,694 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 365,564 ratings — published 2015
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
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avg rating 4.51 — 631,675 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,013,988 ratings — published 2014
You (You, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 302,476 ratings — published 2014
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
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avg rating 3.59 — 65,035 ratings — published 1960
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 486,361 ratings — published 2013
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,581,129 ratings — published 1985
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,333,873 ratings — published 2011
Defiance (Defiance, #1)
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avg rating 3.67 — 29,152 ratings — published 2012
Legend (Legend, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 575,719 ratings — published 2011
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 137,806 ratings — published 1999
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,363,289 ratings — published 2025
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,982,986 ratings — published 2025
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,614,159 ratings — published 2022
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,463,260 ratings — published 2024
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 70,342 ratings — published 2009
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,232,250 ratings — published 2023
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,372,051 ratings — published 2020
Wrong Place Wrong Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 505,239 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