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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,042,268 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,162,550 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,313,272 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,908,501 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,018,324 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,832,534 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,757,629 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,709,037 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 332,843 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,109,193 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 567,613 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,527,949 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,028,376 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 817,457 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 563,928 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,051,916 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,607,707 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,376,183 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 — 2,032,859 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,501,108 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 387,855 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,471,387 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 320,954 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 838,456 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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4.06 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,003,775 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 219,323 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 723,213 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 660,107 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 280,055 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 947,244 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 557,531 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 103,393 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 426,306 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 497,673 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,036 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,881,606 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,864,771 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 382,556 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,308,872 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 285,606 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 270,765 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 743,349 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.58 avg rating — 251,239 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 508,212 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 — 586,565 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,357 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 34,961 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 297,737 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 261,109 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,982 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,289 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,079 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 27,806 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 218,272 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 48,296 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.14 avg rating — 1,914,084 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 100,365 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,586 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 — 38,524 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 873,862 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 277,788 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 327,909 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,063,828 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,027,480 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 207,575 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 430,597 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,769,889 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 514,918 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,125,030 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 — 478,233 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 737,251 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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4.08 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,778,819 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 — 90,103 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 — 364,746 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,082 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,476 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 132,232 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,501 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 — 130,243 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,265,793 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,514 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 108,564 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 326,294 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 127,794 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,382 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 286,104 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,051,442 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,319 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 101,456 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,120,240 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 292,561 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 830,196 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 574,780 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. :)