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The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 243,197 ratings — published 2019
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,296,361 ratings — published 1847
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,139,102 ratings — published 2011
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 225,441 ratings — published 1831
Yol (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,089,520 ratings — published 2006
Diamond Fever!: A True Crime Story in the Wild West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 295 ratings — published
The Reservation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 4,842 ratings — published 2026
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 354,891 ratings — published 2015
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 410,728 ratings — published 2016
Prodigal Summer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 136,400 ratings — published 2000
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,197 ratings — published 2025
Song of a Blackbird: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,631 ratings — published 2025
The Backwater (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 884 ratings — published 2024
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 626,544 ratings — published 2025
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 334,119 ratings — published 2014
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 42,320 ratings — published 2025
The Overstory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 209,671 ratings — published 2018
A Case of Mice and Murder (The Trials of Gabriel Ward, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 6,016 ratings — published 2024
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 986,511 ratings — published 2014
Trilogia della città di K. (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 48,826 ratings — published 1991
The Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 1,828,313 ratings — published 2024
Bangkok Wakes to Rain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.58 — 3,961 ratings — published 2019
The Great Divide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 31,764 ratings — published 2024
The Magnificent Ruins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 3,818 ratings — published 2024
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 708,678 ratings — published 2016
Alone Out Here (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.55 — 1,961 ratings — published 2022
Loch Ness Uncovered: Media, Misinformation, and the Greatest Monster Hoax of All Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 152 ratings — published
Uprising (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 3,411 ratings — published 2024
The God of the Woods (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,044,025 ratings — published 2024
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
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avg rating 3.83 — 160,431 ratings — published 2022
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,634 ratings — published
The Empusium (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 29,190 ratings — published 2022
Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 3,989 ratings — published 2024
Piranesi (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 581,947 ratings — published 2020
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 1,770,560 ratings — published 1977
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
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avg rating 3.65 — 34,183 ratings — published 1967
The Night War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,058 ratings — published 2024
49 Days (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,524 ratings — published 2024
The Fight for the Hidden Realm (Paper Dragons #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 686 ratings — published 2024
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 1,210 ratings — published 2024
Code Name Kingfisher (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,081 ratings — published 2023
The World-Famous Nine (The World-Famous Nine, #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 589 ratings — published
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 511,769 ratings — published 1926
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 341,780 ratings — published 1947
So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 8,027 ratings — published 2024
The Gilded Hour (The Waverly Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 18,712 ratings — published 2015
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,727,524 ratings — published 2006
Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 33,099 ratings — published 2006
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 181,631 ratings — published 1988
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 331,222 ratings — published 2006