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M*A*S*H
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3.97 avg rating — 10,439 ratings
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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4.06 avg rating — 107,539 ratings
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 73,981 ratings
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House of Cards (Francis Urquhart, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 9,139 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,480,799 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 370,782 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,320 ratings
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Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
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3.43 avg rating — 3,031 ratings
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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4.30 avg rating — 329,679 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,131,091 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,767,960 ratings
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 547,033 ratings
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 277,447 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,166,581 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 165,542 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
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3.72 avg rating — 206,876 ratings
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Victoria
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3.93 avg rating — 30,886 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,030,063 ratings
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Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
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4.21 avg rating — 303,613 ratings
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 518,050 ratings
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About a Boy
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3.80 avg rating — 142,100 ratings
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American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 996,400 ratings
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Howards End
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3.96 avg rating — 95,639 ratings
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Northanger Abbey
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3.85 avg rating — 461,625 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.30 avg rating — 4,891,671 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,361,189 ratings
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Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 36,378 ratings
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Death Comes to Pemberley
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3.30 avg rating — 104,536 ratings
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (Reginald Perrin, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,495,536 ratings
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Friday Night Lights
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4.14 avg rating — 67,376 ratings
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 31,715 ratings
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The Night Manager
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3.85 avg rating — 24,295 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
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3.81 avg rating — 405,936 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals
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4.16 avg rating — 64,672 ratings
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Daniel Deronda
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3.87 avg rating — 27,007 ratings
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Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 562,856 ratings
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Middlemarch
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4.04 avg rating — 182,063 ratings
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Big Little Lies
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4.31 avg rating — 1,129,963 ratings
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Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 18,585 ratings
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My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 47,140 ratings
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The Woman in White
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4.02 avg rating — 168,151 ratings
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Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 104,277 ratings
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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3.97 avg rating — 168,182 ratings
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The Wind in the Willows
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4.02 avg rating — 243,789 ratings
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The Outsider (Roswell High, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 3,242 ratings
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Under the Dome
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3.93 avg rating — 327,194 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 236,379 ratings
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The Walking Dead, Book One
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4.35 avg rating — 37,784 ratings
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 222,828 ratings
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Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
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3.82 avg rating — 6,219 ratings
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Green Arrow (2016-2019) #1
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4.14 avg rating — 271 ratings
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The Moonstone
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3.91 avg rating — 99,881 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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4.16 avg rating — 62,549 ratings
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 115,397 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 73,321 ratings
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Sharp Objects
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,247,615 ratings
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The 100 (The 100, #1)
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3.58 avg rating — 87,649 ratings
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The Forsythe Saga
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4.19 avg rating — 21,015 ratings
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,504,044 ratings
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Dress Gray
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3.75 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Prime Suspect (Prime Suspect, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,164 ratings
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 133,847 ratings
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Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 214,869 ratings
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Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
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3.82 avg rating — 118,694 ratings
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The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 46,890 ratings
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The Last Ship
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3.56 avg rating — 4,397 ratings
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The Returned
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3.31 avg rating — 16,097 ratings
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Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge
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3.71 avg rating — 1,925 ratings
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The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
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4.23 avg rating — 9,490 ratings
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Moll Flanders
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3.52 avg rating — 48,983 ratings
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It
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4.24 avg rating — 1,290,751 ratings
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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 576,336 ratings
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Silas Marner
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3.70 avg rating — 94,729 ratings
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Sex and the City
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3.38 avg rating — 58,785 ratings
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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3.77 avg rating — 156,371 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,021,639 ratings
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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 156,537 ratings
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Oliver Twist
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3.88 avg rating — 432,068 ratings
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Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 38,290 ratings
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Upstairs Downstairs
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3.51 avg rating — 462 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 632,594 ratings
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The Astronaut Wives Club
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3.35 avg rating — 28,676 ratings
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| 84 |
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Zoo (Zoo, #1)
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3.52 avg rating — 49,089 ratings
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Jude the Obscure
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3.84 avg rating — 76,687 ratings
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The Nine Lives of Chloe King (The Nine Lives of Chloe King, #1-3)
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3.76 avg rating — 9,230 ratings
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The Irish R.M.
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3.73 avg rating — 788 ratings
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Les Miserables
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4.33 avg rating — 1,822 ratings
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Fresh Off the Boat
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3.68 avg rating — 13,953 ratings
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The Chaperone
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3.88 avg rating — 64,390 ratings
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The Firm (The Firm, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 117,546 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 104,096 ratings
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How Green Was My Valley
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4.21 avg rating — 19,076 ratings
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Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 192,520 ratings
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The Colorado Kid
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3.38 avg rating — 61,217 ratings
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Emma
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4.05 avg rating — 1,000,014 ratings
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Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
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4.17 avg rating — 27,620 ratings
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Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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4.08 avg rating — 682 ratings
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
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3.70 avg rating — 103,247 ratings
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In This House of Brede
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4.36 avg rating — 6,962 ratings
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I am glad to find this list and will come back to it to see if there are books which are "less famous" than the TV show.