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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,385,154 ratings — published 1952
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,022,371 ratings — published 2015
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,815,306 ratings — published 2018
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,831,495 ratings — published 2007
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 35,322 ratings — published 1961
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,587 ratings — published 2015
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.06 — 646,530 ratings — published 1999
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,417,314 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,349,726 ratings — published 1947
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,328,979 ratings — published 1963
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,109,710 ratings — published 2021
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,229,241 ratings — published 2012
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,377,198 ratings — published 2018
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,427,931 ratings — published 1847
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,409,249 ratings — published 2012
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,033,304 ratings — published 1939
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 41,272 ratings — published 1968
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,026,318 ratings — published 2023
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,445 ratings — published 1958
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,935,889 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 921,068 ratings — published 2022
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,667 ratings — published 1978
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,480,054 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.48 — 854,690 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,719 ratings — published 2012
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 182,126 ratings — published 1959
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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avg rating 4.36 — 22,035 ratings — published 2014
American Dirt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 730,615 ratings — published 2020
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 30,081 ratings — published 1971
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 291,036 ratings — published 2016
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 33,700 ratings — published 1987
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 703,483 ratings — published 2017
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 146,635 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,605 ratings — published 2017
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 37,877 ratings — published 2015
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 462,445 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 118,983 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,579,663 ratings — published 1985
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 373,153 ratings — published 2013
Little Bee (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 251,038 ratings — published 2008
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,904,434 ratings — published 2012
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.33 — 367,481 ratings — published 2007
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,039,392 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,992,463 ratings — published 2005
Open (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.33 — 157,047 ratings — published 2009
Knightley Academy (Knightley Academy, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,174 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 947,479 ratings — published 1946
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 868,534 ratings — published 1862
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 600,721 ratings — published 1969
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,150,039 ratings — published 1997
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
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“He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
