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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,054,823 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,168,491 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,321,764 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,926,614 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,082,732 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,857,342 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,772,182 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,713,747 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 334,112 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,117,206 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 568,662 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,596,177 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,030,769 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 821,085 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 565,299 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,053,771 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,614,238 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,384,714 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 — 2,043,930 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,533,797 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 389,560 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,485,605 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 322,697 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 843,634 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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4.05 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,007,432 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 219,939 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 724,885 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 661,759 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 280,991 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 951,417 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 559,935 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,079 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 428,786 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,457 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,340 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,899,927 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,868,436 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 385,123 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,329,409 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 286,548 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 271,854 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 749,922 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 258,976 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 509,951 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 — 589,727 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,487 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,044 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 299,538 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 262,634 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,340 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,351 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,089 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 27,865 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 218,730 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 48,813 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,935,605 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 101,136 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,837 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 — 38,580 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 878,157 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 278,779 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 328,704 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,071,327 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,029,422 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 208,443 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 432,943 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,796,891 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 515,765 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,133,294 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 — 480,159 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 742,314 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 — 110 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,788,391 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 — 91,104 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 — 366,484 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,216 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,656 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 132,723 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,552 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 — 130,895 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,269,907 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,561 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 109,541 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 328,826 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,617 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,504 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 286,924 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,060,919 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,422 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 103,465 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,126,290 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 293,624 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 833,726 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 578,474 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. :)