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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,029,152 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,156,532 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.23 avg rating — 1,304,570 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,889,341 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,949,726 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,807,536 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,742,009 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,703,869 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 331,462 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,102,144 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 566,611 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,455,286 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,026,193 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 812,817 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 562,437 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,050,005 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,600,905 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,367,234 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 — 2,021,668 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,469,365 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 386,064 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,456,115 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 319,070 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 833,338 ratings
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The Legend of Decimus Croome: A Halloween Carol
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4.14 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.07 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 999,906 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 218,696 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 721,624 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 658,480 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 279,068 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 942,377 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 555,290 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,787 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 423,865 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 496,954 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 23,634 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,860,866 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,859,830 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 379,594 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,294,194 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 284,536 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 269,655 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 735,810 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.58 avg rating — 243,982 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 506,536 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 — 583,162 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,242 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 34,861 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 296,006 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.04 avg rating — 259,387 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,653 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,233 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,073 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 27,763 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 217,828 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 47,734 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.14 avg rating — 1,890,946 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 99,409 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,296 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.96 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,479 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 869,373 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 277,010 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 327,066 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,055,153 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,024,758 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 206,755 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 428,094 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,740,941 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 514,144 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,117,397 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.07 avg rating — 476,213 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 732,025 ratings
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Moral Compass to Be, or Not to Be
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4.39 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Hannah: The Soldier Diaries (Part 1)
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4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Season of the Dead
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4.09 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,768,721 ratings
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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3.74 avg rating — 89,122 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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4.39 avg rating — 362,680 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 24,924 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,267 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 131,758 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,465 ratings
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The Sounding
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4.13 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 129,451 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,261,825 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,461 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 107,610 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 323,682 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,993 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,179 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 285,307 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,041,613 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 95,164 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 99,499 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,113,770 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 291,542 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 826,864 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 570,485 ratings
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I originally bought the hardcover version and put it down because I couldn't make heads or tails of its odd writing style (crazy metaphors, strikethroughs, repetition) frankly, I thought the author was trying too hard to show us how "deep" she was.
Later though I was give the audio version. WOW, it made all the difference. As soon as I heard Kate Simses narrate the book it was like a lightbulb clicked on in my head. "...oh, THAT'S how it's supposed to be read. DUH." Hearing the strange writing style read aloud the way the author had intended, was extremely charming. Turns out, it's one of my favorite novels. Who knew. :)