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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,084,844 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,181,292 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,338,635 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,964,119 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,223,583 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,903,954 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,803,110 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,723,398 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 336,996 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,132,942 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 570,652 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,746,999 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,035,847 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 828,121 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 568,010 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,057,423 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,628,261 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,403,559 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 — 2,067,124 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,602,564 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 393,377 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,515,105 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 326,354 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 854,279 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 — 1,015,131 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 221,314 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 728,740 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 665,210 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 282,765 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 959,963 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 565,008 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,323 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 433,691 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,830 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,915 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,936,690 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,875,460 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 389,704 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,366,453 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 288,528 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 274,103 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 763,566 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 278,542 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 513,492 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 — 595,796 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,761 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,254 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 304,010 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 265,350 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 170,482 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,412 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,101 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 27,986 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,418 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,970 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,982,312 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 102,435 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,396 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.97 avg rating — 264 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,708 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 886,929 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 280,636 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 330,363 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,084,805 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,036,189 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 210,650 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 437,375 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,859,002 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 517,530 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,149,537 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 — 484,117 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 751,760 ratings
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Moral Compass to Be, or Not to Be
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4.36 avg rating — 81 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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4.10 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,809,955 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 — 92,958 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 — 370,158 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,541 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.85 avg rating — 169,069 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,688 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,614 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 — 132,072 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,278,684 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,666 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.09 avg rating — 111,608 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 335,599 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 130,859 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,725 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,314 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,080,188 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,661 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 100,056 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,139,827 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 295,802 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 843,008 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 587,091 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. :)