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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,068,447 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,174,690 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,329,985 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,944,446 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,148,940 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,879,201 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,785,859 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,718,369 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 335,449 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,125,096 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 569,728 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,664,936 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,033,269 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 824,277 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 566,723 ratings
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The Host
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3.86 avg rating — 1,055,599 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,620,905 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,393,389 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 — 2,054,871 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,565,579 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 391,434 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,498,868 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 324,517 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 848,710 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 — 1,011,242 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 220,500 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 726,694 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 663,467 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 281,881 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 955,392 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 562,304 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 104,711 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 431,183 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,163 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,647 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,917,024 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,871,832 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 387,690 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,347,364 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 287,518 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 272,946 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 756,281 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 267,835 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 511,660 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 — 592,671 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,596 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,122 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 301,240 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 264,006 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,733 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,390 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,098 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 27,931 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,250 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,381 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,956,444 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 101,775 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,053 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 — 38,655 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 882,340 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 279,845 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 329,568 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,077,837 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031,764 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 209,395 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 435,010 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,825,823 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 516,630 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,140,889 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 — 482,051 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 746,833 ratings
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Moral Compass to Be, or Not to Be
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4.35 avg rating — 80 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 — 1,798,299 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 — 91,970 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 — 368,208 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,377 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,893 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,184 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,586 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 — 131,524 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,274,095 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,638 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 110,513 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 331,765 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,724 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,607 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 287,653 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,070,139 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,557 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 105,355 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,132,201 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 294,684 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 837,524 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 582,637 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. :)