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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,001,890 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,147,653 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.23 avg rating — 1,291,607 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,857,275 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,815,286 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,768,761 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,718,733 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,695,158 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 329,630 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,091,841 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 565,295 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,312,977 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,022,083 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 806,412 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 560,405 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,046,730 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,589,220 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,352,741 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 — 2,004,792 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,427,789 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 383,648 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,428,212 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 316,375 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 825,295 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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4.08 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 — 993,441 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 217,925 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 719,030 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 656,004 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 277,942 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 922,257 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 552,346 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,014 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 420,230 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 495,947 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 23,019 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,832,029 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,854,099 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 376,708 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,275,632 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 283,043 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 268,165 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 724,580 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 236,266 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 504,279 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 — 578,283 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,111 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 34,765 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,073 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.04 avg rating — 257,422 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,155 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,208 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,075 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 27,708 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 217,114 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 47,063 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,855,352 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 98,312 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 29,930 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.96 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,406 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 860,996 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 276,012 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 326,005 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,043,217 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,020,303 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 205,697 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 424,813 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,678,989 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 512,576 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,105,287 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 472,878 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 724,833 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 — 1,750,129 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 — 87,774 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 — 359,558 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 24,787 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 167,968 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 131,171 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,406 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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4.14 avg rating — 128,596 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,253,731 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,409 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 106,365 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 320,340 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,084 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,057 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 284,304 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,028,526 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 94,998 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 97,266 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,102,935 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 290,105 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 821,404 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 564,112 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. :)