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The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 279,659 ratings
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A Little Life
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4.26 avg rating — 1,028,123 ratings
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Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
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4.10 avg rating — 7,917 ratings
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The Wife Drought
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4.15 avg rating — 4,645 ratings
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The Secret History
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4.14 avg rating — 1,149,954 ratings
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The Secret River
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3.81 avg rating — 26,294 ratings
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The Husband's Secret
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3.94 avg rating — 745,727 ratings
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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 523,867 ratings
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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4.04 avg rating — 66,038 ratings
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
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3.90 avg rating — 31,545 ratings
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The Girl on the Train
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3.96 avg rating — 3,410,609 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.20 avg rating — 836,528 ratings
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This House of Grief
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3.98 avg rating — 15,451 ratings
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Big Little Lies
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4.31 avg rating — 1,167,275 ratings
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Commonwealth
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3.84 avg rating — 217,479 ratings
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Boy Swallows Universe
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4.33 avg rating — 103,607 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 762,261 ratings
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 986,468 ratings
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The Natural Way of Things
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3.46 avg rating — 18,456 ratings
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Our Souls at Night
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3.92 avg rating — 89,985 ratings
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Any Ordinary Day
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4.13 avg rating — 17,050 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 308,256 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 343,202 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 633,137 ratings
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Jasper Jones
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4.08 avg rating — 44,270 ratings
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Community: Salad Recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen
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4.49 avg rating — 225 ratings
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The Museum of Modern Love
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3.90 avg rating — 11,625 ratings
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Everywhere I Look
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4.09 avg rating — 3,846 ratings
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People of the Book
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4.04 avg rating — 160,923 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Dirt
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4.05 avg rating — 3,678 ratings
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Jerusalem: A Cookbook
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4.18 avg rating — 38,213 ratings
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What Alice Forgot
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4.07 avg rating — 530,051 ratings
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One Life: My Mother's Story
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4.08 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
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4.30 avg rating — 2,086,106 ratings
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The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government
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3.65 avg rating — 1,603 ratings
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I Saw a Man
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3.44 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.36 avg rating — 951,739 ratings
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Truly Madly Guilty
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3.60 avg rating — 324,207 ratings
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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4.31 avg rating — 716,952 ratings
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My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1)
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3.60 avg rating — 201,813 ratings
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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3.81 avg rating — 207,377 ratings
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Flesh Wounds
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3.95 avg rating — 3,100 ratings
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 314,047 ratings
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The Signature of All Things
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3.88 avg rating — 128,443 ratings
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Year of Wonders
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4.01 avg rating — 180,901 ratings
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Bad Feminist
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3.91 avg rating — 121,552 ratings
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Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son
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4.17 avg rating — 945 ratings
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The Hate Race
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4.30 avg rating — 3,779 ratings
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Reckoning: A Memoir
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4.11 avg rating — 7,147 ratings
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Stoner
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4.36 avg rating — 317,496 ratings
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The Sense of an Ending
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3.75 avg rating — 200,735 ratings
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The Killing Season: Uncut
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4.25 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.77 avg rating — 380,023 ratings
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1984
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4.21 avg rating — 5,826,951 ratings
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What Happened
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3.92 avg rating — 61,660 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 233,245 ratings
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Red Sparrow (Red Sparrow Trilogy, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 59,895 ratings
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The Healing Party
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3.24 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Educated
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4.46 avg rating — 1,999,017 ratings
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H is for Hawk
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3.73 avg rating — 86,479 ratings
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A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work
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4.28 avg rating — 238 ratings
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
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3.88 avg rating — 31,898 ratings
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The Goldfinch
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3.97 avg rating — 1,094,019 ratings
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Lanny
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4.05 avg rating — 32,081 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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3.93 avg rating — 327,249 ratings
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Normal People
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3.81 avg rating — 2,027,019 ratings
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The Godmother
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3.72 avg rating — 5,687 ratings
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The Luminaries
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3.75 avg rating — 87,881 ratings
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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4.37 avg rating — 3,824,952 ratings
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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
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3.89 avg rating — 9,299 ratings
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Sophie’s World
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3.97 avg rating — 294,223 ratings
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The Hypnotist's Love Story
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3.71 avg rating — 167,608 ratings
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The Eye of the Sheep
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4.17 avg rating — 7,881 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
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3.82 avg rating — 91,075 ratings
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Portable Curiosities
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3.99 avg rating — 472 ratings
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The Street Lawyer
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3.90 avg rating — 125,966 ratings
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The One Who Got Away
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3.36 avg rating — 4,213 ratings
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Heartburn
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3.62 avg rating — 96,414 ratings
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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
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4.16 avg rating — 10,838 ratings
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Fortune's Rocks
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3.91 avg rating — 32,553 ratings
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In the Quiet
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3.90 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign
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3.97 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 219,703 ratings
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The Camomile Lawn
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3.86 avg rating — 5,535 ratings
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 135,662 ratings
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Useful
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3.66 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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My Life on the Road
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4.07 avg rating — 37,737 ratings
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An Isolated Incident
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3.54 avg rating — 3,872 ratings
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Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
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4.18 avg rating — 5,340 ratings
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Reasons to Stay Alive
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4.06 avg rating — 116,719 ratings
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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4.08 avg rating — 166,451 ratings
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The Blind Assassin
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3.96 avg rating — 168,111 ratings
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Grand Days
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3.73 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Special Delivery: Favourite Recipes to Make and Take
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4.25 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Night Watch
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3.71 avg rating — 34,199 ratings
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What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
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3.74 avg rating — 25,573 ratings
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The Wife
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3.70 avg rating — 31,613 ratings
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The Good Mayor
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3.40 avg rating — 979 ratings
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Three Women
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3.71 avg rating — 178,563 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,420,250 ratings
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ETA: I also don't think they've mentioned the following:
- Lola Bensky by Lily Brett
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
- Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
- The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dyingby Nina Riggs
- Crackanory Too Cracked for TV by unknown author
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- Fingersmith by Sarah Water
- In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones
- The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
- The One In A Million Boy by Monica Wood
- Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
- What Abi Taught Us: A mother's struggle to come to terms with her daughter's death by Lucy Hone
- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
- The Golden Child by Wendy James
- A Florence Diary by Diana Athill
- The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
- The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna
Please correct me if I'm wrong. These are only the ones I've had time to search for; I'm quite sure there are a number more that are incorrect.
One Goodreads user in particular is responsible for most of these votes. Unfortunately, a list has no utility unless the quality that defines it is actually adhered to. Voting for random books you read and enjoyed does a disservice to other people who use this list.