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Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 104,929 ratings — published 1996
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,799,078 ratings — published 1996
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 610,867 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,691,448 ratings — published 1965
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,002 ratings — published 2001
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,566 ratings — published 1866
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,902 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,322 ratings — published 1949
Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 901,159 ratings — published 1961
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 53,704 ratings — published 1979
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 356,165 ratings — published 2006
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 960,243 ratings — published 1878
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,059,919 ratings — published 2006
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 346,663 ratings — published 1977
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,880 ratings — published 1967
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,398,246 ratings — published 2018
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,112,180 ratings — published 2007
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,060 ratings — published 1890
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,137,547 ratings — published 1932
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 375,370 ratings — published 1984
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
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avg rating 4.51 — 219,678 ratings — published 1887
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 261,416 ratings — published 2004
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,131,209 ratings — published 2011
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 118,269 ratings — published 1999
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,045,001 ratings — published 1998
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 631,307 ratings — published 1851
Dracula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,528,227 ratings — published 1897
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,070,074 ratings — published 1846
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,053 ratings — published 1985
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,222,025 ratings — published 1954
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 210,668 ratings — published 2000
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 409,099 ratings — published 1879
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 528,245 ratings — published 2006
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 375,570 ratings — published 1868
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,336,731 ratings — published 2011
Good Omens (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 841,743 ratings — published 1990
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,959,545 ratings — published 2005
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,969,517 ratings — published 1813
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 559,362 ratings — published 1985
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,201,889 ratings — published 2015
The Iliad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 530,137 ratings — published -750
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,594,271 ratings — published 1937
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
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avg rating 4.38 — 341,850 ratings — published 1996
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 852,910 ratings — published 1989
Emma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,015,195 ratings — published 1815
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 170,047 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 205,511 ratings — published 2004
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,179,873 ratings — published 1991
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,269,806 ratings — published 1847
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 592,073 ratings — published -500
“If you keep seeing the same landscape, there’s a good chance that you’re standing at the same place on the same road. And when that happens, we soon forget that roads were meant for traveling, not standing.”
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“If there were no beginnings and if there were no endings, we would have the absence of inertia and the presence of stagnation.”
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