182 books
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98 voters
Present Tense Books
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,046,327 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,221,263 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,777,439 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,023,695 ratings — published 2017
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,419,167 ratings — published 2011
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,112,437 ratings — published 2011
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.57 — 3,696,096 ratings — published 2023
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,555,528 ratings — published 2020
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,247,531 ratings — published 2019
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,325,998 ratings — published 2015
Room (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 841,501 ratings — published 2010
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 206,107 ratings — published 2021
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,454,749 ratings — published 2021
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,173,395 ratings — published 2021
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 2,010,620 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 — 683,142 ratings — published 2015
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,780,966 ratings — published 2018
Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 335,858 ratings — published 2015
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,708,161 ratings — published 2023
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,141,607 ratings — published 2023
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 493,024 ratings — published 2018
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 111,598 ratings — published 2021
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 195,876 ratings — published 2020
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,914,763 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,212,560 ratings — published 2017
A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 123,431 ratings — published 2018
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,189,306 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 — 1,238,181 ratings — published 2012
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2)
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avg rating 4.22 — 201,612 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 353,671 ratings — published 2015
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
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avg rating 4.50 — 521,920 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 846,412 ratings — published 2014
You (You, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 295,551 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 — 481,902 ratings — published 2013
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,474,725 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 — 567,727 ratings — published 2011
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 136,794 ratings — published 1999
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,151,165 ratings — published 2025
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,336,128 ratings — published 2022
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,342,555 ratings — published 2024
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,312,998 ratings — published 2020
Wrong Place Wrong Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 477,039 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 — 117,756 ratings — published 2022
The Patient's Secret (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 70,520 ratings — published 2022
The Roughest Draft (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 59,233 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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“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









