258 books
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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,029,310 ratings — published 2017
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 719,328 ratings — published 2022
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
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avg rating 4.25 — 813,983 ratings — published 2020
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,569,824 ratings — published 2020
Battersea Parker 2 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 4,417 ratings — published
Battersea Parker (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 7,595 ratings — published
Otherworld (Last Reality, #1)
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avg rating 3.69 — 10,388 ratings — published 2017
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,325,535 ratings — published 2011
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,271,681 ratings — published 2012
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,627,860 ratings — published 2021
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,817,249 ratings — published 2025
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,762,066 ratings — published 2023
The Everlasting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 57,214 ratings — published 2025
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,421,911 ratings — published 2022
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 140,478 ratings — published 1983
Not Quite Dead Yet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 207,402 ratings — published 2025
My Friends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 503,181 ratings — published 2025
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.57 — 3,770,149 ratings — published 2023
The Party (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 12,442 ratings — published 2024
Such Charming Liars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 23,636 ratings — published 2024
That's Not My Name (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 341,179 ratings — published 2023
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 399,042 ratings — published 2022
The Reappearance of Rachel Price (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 238,530 ratings — published 2024
A Fragile Enchantment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 28,155 ratings — published 2024
The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower, #2)
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avg rating 4.24 — 296,174 ratings — published 1987
Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
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avg rating 4.11 — 119,988 ratings — published 2023
Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 432,339 ratings — published 2024
The Essential Rumi (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 51,077 ratings — published 1273
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
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avg rating 4.25 — 80,001 ratings — published 2023
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,577,081 ratings — published 2020
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 346,625 ratings — published 2022
City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 7,417 ratings — published 2023
Book Lovers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,629,323 ratings — published 2022
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 633,997 ratings — published 2016
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,327,342 ratings — published 2020
As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)
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avg rating 4.19 — 596,198 ratings — published 2021
The Agathas (The Agathas #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 25,874 ratings — published 2022
Things You Save in a Fire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 186,022 ratings — published 2019
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
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avg rating 4.29 — 110,029 ratings — published 2021
Nothing More to Tell (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 76,815 ratings — published 2022
Two Can Keep a Secret (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 176,012 ratings — published 2019
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 626,608 ratings — published 2021
Instructions for Dancing (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 57,381 ratings — published 2021
Tokyo Ever After (Tokyo Ever After, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 52,091 ratings — published 2021
The Paris Architect (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 65,531 ratings — published 2013
The Cousins (Library Binding)
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avg rating 3.76 — 148,685 ratings — published 2020
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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avg rating 4.46 — 398,066 ratings — published 2020
Puddin' (Dumplin', #2)
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avg rating 3.99 — 20,602 ratings — published 2018
Grown (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 42,205 ratings — published 2020
Copy Boy (Jane Benjamin, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 203 ratings — published 2020
“My mother, God rest her, didn't approve of profanity or any such talk; she called it 'the language of the ignorant.' This did not, however, keep her from yelling 'Oh shit!' if she burned the roast or nailed her thumb a good one while hammering a picture-hook in the wall.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Gramps always says people only swear because their vocabulary is limited...In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.”
― Hour of the Lion
― Hour of the Lion











