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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 973,858 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 445,708 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,508,504 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,442 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,521,135 ratings — published 1969
Half His Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.23 — 174,592 ratings — published 2026
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,967,411 ratings — published 1963
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,719,204 ratings — published 1949
Rejection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 50,124 ratings — published 2024
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 464,388 ratings — published 2017
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 7,456 ratings — published 1969
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,807 ratings — published 2001
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.53 — 109,842 ratings — published 2022
Yellowface (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 1,148,953 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,983,867 ratings — published 1890
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 255,000 ratings — published 1864
Free Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 38,975 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 661,409 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 998,216 ratings — published 2015
The Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 258,523 ratings — published 2016
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 32,868 ratings — published 2005
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 44,511 ratings — published 2014
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 17,403 ratings — published 1981
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 22,424 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,806,156 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,994,935 ratings — published 1951
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 73,419 ratings — published 2001
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,299,603 ratings — published 1954
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
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avg rating 3.67 — 2,919,303 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,777,631 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 510,936 ratings — published 1987
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 222,027 ratings — published 2003
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 192,125 ratings — published 2021
Bellies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13,536 ratings — published 2023
Excalibur (Adult Fantasy Series)
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avg rating 3.50 — 125 ratings — published 1973
Willing Prey (Feral Love, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 13,135 ratings — published 2025
Little Secrets (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 234,198 ratings — published 2020
Fast & Reckless (Racing Hearts, #1)
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avg rating 3.59 — 1,886 ratings — published 2024
The Embassy Murders (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,402 ratings — published 2011
The Passion According to G.H. (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 22,619 ratings — published 1964
Anathema (The Eating Woods, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 136,914 ratings — published 2024
The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock #1)
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avg rating 3.71 — 812,485 ratings — published 2016
The Reaper (Dark Verse, #2)
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avg rating 4.27 — 111,899 ratings — published 2020
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 370,580 ratings — published 1999
Heavenly Bodies (Heavenly Bodies, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 65,645 ratings — published 2022
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
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avg rating 4.29 — 950,706 ratings — published 2023
Mister Tonight (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 9,524 ratings — published 2018
The Room Mate (Roommates, #1)
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avg rating 3.69 — 17,668 ratings — published 2017
Wild for You (Hot Jocks, #6)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7,802 ratings — published 2020
“Not to malign Islam, but slavery in America is akin to Abraham taking Hagar as his concubine. What resulted is a centuries old religious war.
What we did in enslaving Africans, using them and abusing them in many terrible ways, has resulted, in part, in some of our worst gang violence.
When people go against the grain, and I'm guilty myself, when we bypass God's plan, we bring about terrible consequences.”
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What we did in enslaving Africans, using them and abusing them in many terrible ways, has resulted, in part, in some of our worst gang violence.
When people go against the grain, and I'm guilty myself, when we bypass God's plan, we bring about terrible consequences.”
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“So imposing your modern-day perspective on a manuscript thousands of years old is the best way to understand the Bible? Choose an interpretation that makes you feel good?”
― Flight of Shadows
― Flight of Shadows
