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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,050,892 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,166,543 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,319,189 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,920,941 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,062,827 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,850,300 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,767,880 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,712,268 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 333,718 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,114,617 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 568,360 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,576,067 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,030,050 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 819,899 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 564,849 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,053,171 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,612,004 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,382,012 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 — 2,040,586 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,524,022 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 389,003 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,481,202 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 322,148 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 841,948 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 — 1,006,267 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 219,739 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 724,342 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 661,279 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 280,699 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 950,188 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 559,169 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 103,856 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 427,968 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,198 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,247 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,894,424 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,867,374 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 384,416 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,323,303 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 286,252 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 271,503 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 748,052 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 256,414 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 509,437 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 — 588,707 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,447 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,015 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 298,997 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 262,200 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,204 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,339 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,086 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 27,849 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 218,568 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 48,633 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,929,086 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 100,888 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,766 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 — 38,552 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 876,789 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 278,454 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 328,463 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,069,085 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,028,886 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 208,154 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 432,225 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,788,593 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 515,479 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,131,053 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 — 479,609 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 740,922 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 — 1,785,519 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 — 90,803 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 — 365,959 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,168 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,586 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 132,552 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,536 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 — 130,726 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,268,459 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,541 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 109,244 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 328,049 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,316 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,471 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 286,666 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,057,956 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,403 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 102,811 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,124,368 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 293,277 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 832,633 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 577,333 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. :)