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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,889,871 ratings
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The Wacky Man
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3.99 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,437,837 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,911,039 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,743,595 ratings
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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4.20 avg rating — 5,494,732 ratings
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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,029,578 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 562,490 ratings
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 949,553 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,102,326 ratings
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Charlotte’s Web
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4.21 avg rating — 2,052,499 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
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4.39 avg rating — 331,743 ratings
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Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 1,198,303 ratings
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 3,163,212 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 583,230 ratings
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The Tao of Pooh
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4.01 avg rating — 130,855 ratings
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The Shock of the Fall
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3.76 avg rating — 49,499 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.59 avg rating — 107,378 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,206,332 ratings
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The Separation
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4.06 avg rating — 3,934 ratings
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Atonement
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3.95 avg rating — 564,882 ratings
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Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts
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4.04 avg rating — 2,650 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,113,964 ratings
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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4.03 avg rating — 131,568 ratings
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The Snow Child
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4.02 avg rating — 176,088 ratings
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Forbidden Colours
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4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Buddha of Suburbia
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3.75 avg rating — 21,141 ratings
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Nina is Not OK
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4.24 avg rating — 3,549 ratings
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Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)
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3.93 avg rating — 48,768 ratings
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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4.08 avg rating — 214,003 ratings
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Big Little Lies
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4.31 avg rating — 1,119,841 ratings
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Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,807,051 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,859,976 ratings
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 2,022,029 ratings
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The Girl with the Red Ribbon
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4.22 avg rating — 538 ratings
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White Teeth
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3.79 avg rating — 175,482 ratings
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The Stoner Stories
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 678,134 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.19 avg rating — 307,473 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,456,619 ratings
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Station Eleven
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4.07 avg rating — 617,018 ratings
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After You (Me Before You, #2)
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3.75 avg rating — 419,527 ratings
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The Island
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4.12 avg rating — 60,979 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,940,602 ratings
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The Girl Who Dreamed of Paris
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4.17 avg rating — 2,408 ratings
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The Ship of Brides
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3.87 avg rating — 51,648 ratings
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 949,180 ratings
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The Throwaway Children
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4.24 avg rating — 13,220 ratings
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The Blind Assassin
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3.96 avg rating — 163,834 ratings
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The Tea Planter's Wife
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3.81 avg rating — 22,307 ratings
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The Nightingale
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4.65 avg rating — 2,137,360 ratings
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Harkhuf the First Explorer
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Oh, Freedom!
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3.73 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
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3.77 avg rating — 657,735 ratings
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Farewell, Damascus
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3.78 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Stoner
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4.35 avg rating — 253,140 ratings
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The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 88,937 ratings
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26a
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3.67 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
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The Apartment in Bab el-Louk
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3.59 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 132,830 ratings
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The Confines of the Shadow
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Defender (The Voices #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 953 ratings
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The Dark Side of Love
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4.10 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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4.30 avg rating — 327,187 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,742,511 ratings
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The Alchemist
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3.92 avg rating — 3,588,332 ratings
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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 11,931 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,476,702 ratings
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The Sellout
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3.74 avg rating — 75,092 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
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3.98 avg rating — 116,998 ratings
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African Titanics
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3.65 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 20,936 ratings
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All Our Wrong Todays
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3.75 avg rating — 29,581 ratings
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Here Come the Girls
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4.28 avg rating — 5,412 ratings
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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
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4.25 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 723,344 ratings
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El Deafo
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4.20 avg rating — 90,764 ratings
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Lights of Liverpool
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3.96 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Woman in Black
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3.76 avg rating — 82,611 ratings
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The Dress Thief
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3.87 avg rating — 3,494 ratings
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The Incredible Journey
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4.16 avg rating — 52,828 ratings
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The Remains of the Day
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4.14 avg rating — 362,206 ratings
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Radio Girls
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3.74 avg rating — 7,316 ratings
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English Passengers
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4.07 avg rating — 7,612 ratings
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The Silk Merchant's Daughter
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3.89 avg rating — 5,704 ratings
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Before the Rains
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3.93 avg rating — 4,313 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 358,320 ratings
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A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
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4.37 avg rating — 89,048 ratings
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The Rotters' Club
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3.96 avg rating — 15,876 ratings
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The Strings of Murder (Frey & McGray, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 5,875 ratings
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Six Thinking Hats
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3.71 avg rating — 13,649 ratings
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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 95,181 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 522,119 ratings
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Lenny the Leprechaun: The Exodus of the Leprechauns
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Return to the Isle of the Lost (Descendants, #2)
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3.90 avg rating — 10,556 ratings
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Apathy and Other Small Victories
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3.82 avg rating — 10,380 ratings
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Mr Loverman
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4.18 avg rating — 18,570 ratings
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The Joyce Girl
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3.63 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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Stay with Me
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4.06 avg rating — 66,213 ratings
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Beck
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3.62 avg rating — 680 ratings
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These are accessible but intelligent action-adventure crime-thriller short stories. Perfect for adults readers who don't have time or inclination to devote days to a single book. The six stand-alone stories can be read individually, and link up to make an overall story arc. So the reader can dip in and out and enjoy them in bite-size episodes.
The author is a professional journalist and editor, so his use of English is creative and inventive. There's an unusual level of depth to these stories - as much going on underneath the surface as in the superficial plot.
Ideal for encouraging any thriller enthusiast to read more...