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Did you know before reading a book by a new author you can check GoodReads Book Compatibility Test to see if your reading styles are similar.
By reading these books and rating them you can before armed with the insight to any author by their rating these same books.
This list is 10 books (usually) in 9 categories. The books in the categories are the top 10 in each categories (and books can be listed in more than 1 category) and can come and go, change where they are rated. You can keep track of all the categories or as few as one category, whatever you want or need to keep track of. This reading list can change over time too. To keep up with the latest check the update dates below.
To find the Compatibility Test for each author go to the author's GoodReads page, then their bookshelves, compare books, then to book compatibility test.
Did you know before reading a book by a new author you can check GoodReads Book Compatibility Test to see if your reading styles are similar.
By reading these books and rating them you can before armed with the insight to any author by their rating these same books.
This list is 10 books (usually) in 9 categories. The books in the categories are the top 10 in each categories (and books can be listed in more than 1 category) and can come and go, change where they are rated. You can keep track of all the categories or as few as one category, whatever you want or need to keep track of. This reading list can change over time too. To keep up with the latest check the update dates below.
To find the Compatibility Test for each author go to the author's GoodReads page, then their bookshelves, compare books, then to book compatibility test.
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POPULAR
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To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
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The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
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J. D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye: Revised Edition J.D. Salinger
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Animal Farm George Orwell
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Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein
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The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
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Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
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Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
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One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
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CLASSICS
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Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
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Lord of the Flies William Golding
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Little Women Louisa May Alcott
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Mary Shelley
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The Odyssey Homer
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A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
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The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
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Les Miserables Victor Hugo
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Herman Melville's Moby Dick Herman Melville
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POPULAR FICTION
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The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
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Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
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Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
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The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
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The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
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The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards
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Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
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Under the Tuscan Sun Frances Mayes
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Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
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THRILLERS
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The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
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The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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The Shining Stephen King
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A Time to Kill John Grisham
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Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
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The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris
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The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum
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Kiss the Girls James Patterson
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The Hunt for Red OctoberTom Clancy
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Odd Thomas Dean Koontz
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NONFICTION
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The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
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Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
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Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt
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The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell
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In Cold Blood Truman Capote
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Eric Schlosser
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich
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April 21, 2015
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FANTASY
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling
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The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien
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Eragon Christopher Paolini
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The Golden Compass Philip Pullman
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ROMANCE
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Twilight Stephenie Meyer
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Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
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Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
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The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
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Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
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Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure William Goldman
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Outlander Diana Gabaldon
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Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
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The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
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SCIENCE FICTION
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1984 George Orwell
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
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Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
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[bookr:Fahrenheit 451|4381] Ray Bradbury
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Dune Frank Herbert
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Foundation Isaac Asimov
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Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein
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NeuromancerWilliam Gibson
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Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
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WOMEN'S FICTION
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Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding
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The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger
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Confessions of a Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells
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Something Borrowed Emily Giffin
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The Nanny Diaries Emma McLaughlin
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Good in Bed Jennifer Weiner
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Jemima J Jane Green
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank
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Mr. Maybe Jane Green
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