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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,010,938 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,150,429 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.23 avg rating — 1,294,979 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,866,832 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,859,183 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,779,959 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,725,644 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,697,581 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 330,164 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,094,612 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 565,647 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,359,297 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,023,381 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 808,361 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 560,965 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,047,646 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,592,394 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,357,074 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 — 2,009,527 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,439,787 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 384,347 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,436,833 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 317,090 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 827,669 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 — 995,602 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 218,121 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 719,844 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 656,704 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 278,234 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 934,434 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 553,095 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,202 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 421,351 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 496,287 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 23,158 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,838,555 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,855,606 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 377,288 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,280,529 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 283,397 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 268,596 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 727,683 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 238,021 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 504,866 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 — 579,502 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,142 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 34,788 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,549 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.04 avg rating — 257,920 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,292 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,211 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 — 27,718 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 217,341 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 47,213 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,865,502 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 98,555 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,025 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.96 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,425 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 863,570 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 276,292 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 326,257 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,046,658 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,021,682 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 205,997 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 425,622 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,699,768 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 513,120 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,108,934 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 — 473,939 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 726,788 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 — 1,756,146 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 — 88,155 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 — 360,459 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 24,821 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,047 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 131,301 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,419 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 — 128,823 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,256,567 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,423 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 106,669 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 321,217 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,312 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,087 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 284,534 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,031,738 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 95,045 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 97,960 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,106,269 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 290,446 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 823,061 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 565,879 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. :)