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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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avg rating 4.57 — 4,225,579 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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avg rating 4.58 — 4,883,975 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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avg rating 4.43 — 4,530,038 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,494,123 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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avg rating 4.50 — 3,820,710 ratings — published 2003
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,174,324 ratings — published 1954
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 6,933,140 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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avg rating 4.58 — 3,680,254 ratings — published 2005
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,536,195 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,484,913 ratings — published 1937
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,136,651 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,134,099 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,916,433 ratings — published 1951
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,751,612 ratings — published 2010
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,750,177 ratings — published 1996
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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avg rating 4.58 — 1,050,855 ratings — published 1955
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,603,527 ratings — published 1945
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,301,395 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,961,711 ratings — published 1925
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,450,636 ratings — published 1915
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,491,611 ratings — published 1969
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,191,770 ratings — published 2009
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,798,045 ratings — published 2013
Drunk Text (Free online read)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,832 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,867,828 ratings — published 1953
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,916,222 ratings — published 1818
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,092,349 ratings — published 1932
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,222,033 ratings — published 1954
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,847,532 ratings — published 1813
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 666,910 ratings — published 1998
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,424,151 ratings — published 1942
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,463,957 ratings — published 2005
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,986,281 ratings — published 2008
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 3,410,375 ratings — published 2000
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,223,573 ratings — published 2021
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,604,711 ratings — published 1988
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 154,421 ratings — published 1954
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,025,539 ratings — published 2011
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 2,456,467 ratings — published 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,014,586 ratings — published 1999
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 952,524 ratings — published 1955
The Upanishads (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 17,805 ratings — published -500
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,026,483 ratings — published 1998
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 850,310 ratings — published 2000
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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avg rating 4.14 — 391,188 ratings — published 1902
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 994,713 ratings — published 2006
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,027,704 ratings — published 1979
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,836,191 ratings — published 1590
“Between the unattainable intention of the author and the arguable intention of the reader, there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.”
― Confessions of a Young Novelist
― Confessions of a Young Novelist
“Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change...
Now, though, we live in a world where text is fluid, where is responds to our instructions. Writing something down records it, but does not make it true or permanent. So why should we put up with a system we don't like simply because it's been written somewhere?”
― The Blind Giant
Now, though, we live in a world where text is fluid, where is responds to our instructions. Writing something down records it, but does not make it true or permanent. So why should we put up with a system we don't like simply because it's been written somewhere?”
― The Blind Giant
