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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,085,155 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,181,445 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,338,814 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,964,551 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,225,221 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,904,508 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,803,535 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,723,485 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 337,028 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,133,093 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 570,674 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,748,764 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,035,906 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 828,203 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 568,048 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,057,453 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,628,420 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,403,755 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 — 2,067,393 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,603,433 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 393,414 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,515,473 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 326,391 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 854,401 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 — 1,015,200 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 221,331 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 728,776 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 665,233 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 282,789 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 960,063 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 565,072 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,333 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 433,753 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 499,845 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,920 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,937,100 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,875,541 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 389,736 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,366,861 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 288,551 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 274,124 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 763,726 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 278,768 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 513,543 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 — 595,868 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,764 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,257 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 304,081 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 265,383 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 170,499 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,414 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 — 219,433 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 49,986 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,982,949 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 102,445 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,405 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 — 38,709 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 887,042 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 280,650 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 330,387 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,084,975 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,036,274 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 210,679 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 437,435 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,859,747 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 517,552 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,149,729 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 — 484,155 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 751,880 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 — 1,810,186 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 — 92,983 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 — 370,199 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,547 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 — 133,710 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 — 132,084 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,278,774 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,667 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.09 avg rating — 111,632 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 335,689 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 130,882 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,726 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,336 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,080,407 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,662 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 100,103 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,139,975 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 295,829 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 843,110 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 587,199 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. :)