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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,100,366 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,187,012 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,346,524 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,981,936 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 10,290,031 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,932,541 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,819,588 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,727,696 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 338,265 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,139,339 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 571,739 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,837,069 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,038,062 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.20 avg rating — 831,841 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 569,387 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,059,077 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,635,287 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,412,292 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 — 2,078,840 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,637,380 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 395,144 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,530,418 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 328,239 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 859,648 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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4.03 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,018,844 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 222,037 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 730,795 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 666,840 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 283,632 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 964,182 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.24 avg rating — 567,494 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,830 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 436,288 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 500,467 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 25,112 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,953,467 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,878,915 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 391,764 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,382,656 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 289,540 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 275,173 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 771,010 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 289,187 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 515,403 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 — 598,803 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,893 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,349 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 306,349 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 266,676 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 171,071 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,437 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 28,042 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,998 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 50,571 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 2,007,557 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 103,047 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,683 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 — 38,724 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 891,392 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 281,453 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 331,257 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,091,904 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,039,901 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 211,731 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 439,554 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,888,102 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 518,387 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,157,303 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 — 486,001 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 756,789 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 — 1,819,291 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 — 93,837 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 — 371,999 ratings
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Envy
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4.22 avg rating — 25,770 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 169,240 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 134,199 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,639 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 — 132,636 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,282,842 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,683 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 112,689 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 339,552 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 131,888 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,849 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,980 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,089,936 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,708 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 102,118 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,146,549 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 296,782 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 847,447 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.27 avg rating — 591,529 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. :)