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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 366,974 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 841,327 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,262,628 ratings
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The House of the Spirits
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4.30 avg rating — 328,276 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,122,030 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 165,500 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,493,660 ratings
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East of Eden
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4.44 avg rating — 662,422 ratings
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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
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4.09 avg rating — 515,967 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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4.30 avg rating — 519,917 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 279,364 ratings
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The Forsyte Saga
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4.19 avg rating — 20,996 ratings
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Middlesex
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4.04 avg rating — 667,108 ratings
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The Poisonwood Bible
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4.11 avg rating — 800,497 ratings
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 350,775 ratings
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The Shell Seekers
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4.20 avg rating — 122,432 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 262,310 ratings
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The Prince of Tides
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4.26 avg rating — 218,501 ratings
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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4.28 avg rating — 329,598 ratings
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 469,739 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,567,124 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club
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3.97 avg rating — 713,092 ratings
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Bell Hammers
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4.07 avg rating — 795 ratings
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Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 132,390 ratings
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Like Water for Chocolate
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3.95 avg rating — 399,446 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,021,073 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,537,550 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,210,117 ratings
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Sarum: The Novel of England
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4.08 avg rating — 46,546 ratings
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Homegoing
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4.47 avg rating — 413,216 ratings
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Fall on Your Knees
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3.97 avg rating — 68,416 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,766,568 ratings
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The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 183,738 ratings
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White Teeth
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3.79 avg rating — 177,032 ratings
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A Dangerous Fortune
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4.17 avg rating — 57,658 ratings
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Penmarric
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4.14 avg rating — 6,915 ratings
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The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
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4.38 avg rating — 59,828 ratings
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The Covert Buccaneer
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4.58 avg rating — 66 ratings
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| 39 |
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 198,048 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,225 ratings
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| 41 |
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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 97,336 ratings
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I Know This Much Is True
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4.21 avg rating — 329,820 ratings
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 241,451 ratings
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She’s Come Undone
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3.92 avg rating — 366,347 ratings
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Centennial
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4.26 avg rating — 45,247 ratings
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Queen
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4.25 avg rating — 3,241 ratings
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The Invisible Bridge
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4.18 avg rating — 54,255 ratings
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| 48 |
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 244,068 ratings
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Pachinko
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4.34 avg rating — 648,763 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,765,996 ratings
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| 51 |
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Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna, #7)
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3.80 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 125,684 ratings
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Saint Maybe
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3.89 avg rating — 19,027 ratings
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 39,640 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,519,779 ratings
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| 56 |
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
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4.07 avg rating — 26,469 ratings
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| 57 |
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Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
by
4.33 avg rating — 8,530 ratings
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| 58 |
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Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles, #1)
by
4.11 avg rating — 96,321 ratings
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Master of the Game
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4.15 avg rating — 60,694 ratings
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The Wheel of Fortune
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4.15 avg rating — 3,629 ratings
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 133,576 ratings
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The Bastard (Kent Family Chronicles, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 25,947 ratings
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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4.20 avg rating — 36,589 ratings
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Beach Music
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4.19 avg rating — 55,434 ratings
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Rich Man, Poor Man
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4.19 avg rating — 38,777 ratings
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Dublin in the Rain
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4.04 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.06 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Something Dangerous (The Spoils of Time, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 5,895 ratings
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Into Temptation (The Spoils of Time, #3)
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4.34 avg rating — 5,290 ratings
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Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles, #3)
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4.29 avg rating — 9,359 ratings
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No Angel (The Spoils of Time, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 8,429 ratings
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Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 71,926 ratings
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The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 19,037 ratings
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Hawaii
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4.22 avg rating — 81,984 ratings
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Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 10,973 ratings
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Empire Falls
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3.95 avg rating — 126,712 ratings
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Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 36,336 ratings
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Jude the Obscure
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3.84 avg rating — 76,649 ratings
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Portrait in Sepia
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4.03 avg rating — 44,809 ratings
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God Is an Englishman (Swann Saga, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 3,270 ratings
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Evergreen (Werner Family Saga, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 28,038 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 125,717 ratings
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The Fitzgeralds of Dublin: Books 1-3 (The Fitzgeralds of Dublin #1-3)
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4.44 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Distant Hours
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3.89 avg rating — 85,459 ratings
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A Wolff in the Family: A Novel
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4.23 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Chesapeake
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4.22 avg rating — 27,542 ratings
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Celebrating Naked
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4.44 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Darshan
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4.31 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Source
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4.29 avg rating — 45,862 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 397,435 ratings
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Middlemarch
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4.04 avg rating — 181,848 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 130,633 ratings
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Midnight’s Children
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3.97 avg rating — 134,282 ratings
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The Shaman of Turtle Valley
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4.39 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Invisible Mountain
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4.03 avg rating — 2,040 ratings
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The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet, #1-4)
by
4.18 avg rating — 12,276 ratings
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Digging to America
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3.59 avg rating — 23,684 ratings
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Daffodils (Katherine Wheel, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 4,043 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
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4.20 avg rating — 21,906 ratings
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Cane River
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4.08 avg rating — 50,656 ratings
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I've been a voracious reader for decades, especially historical fiction, especially multi-generational family sagas! I'm glad to have discovered this list. Several new singles/series that I've been unaware of Thanks to the author and contributors.
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