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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,112,643 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,192,218 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,353,652 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,998,136 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 10,355,415 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,960,306 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,834,234 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,731,145 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 339,592 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,146,310 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 573,335 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,906,432 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,040,024 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.20 avg rating — 836,308 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 570,560 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,060,683 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,642,932 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,419,826 ratings
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 2,088,844 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,666,684 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 396,764 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,543,807 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 330,177 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 865,004 ratings
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The Legend of Decimus Croome: A Halloween Carol
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4.13 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Forty-Ninth
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4.02 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,022,836 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 222,668 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 732,470 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 668,588 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 284,397 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 968,036 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.24 avg rating — 569,717 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 106,357 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 438,643 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 500,977 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 25,350 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,967,417 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,882,135 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 393,788 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,395,456 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 290,455 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 276,343 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.19 avg rating — 780,424 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.61 avg rating — 298,527 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 517,329 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 — 601,654 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 96,020 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,459 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 308,126 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 267,913 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 171,510 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,464 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,114 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 28,090 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 220,464 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 51,149 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 2,032,064 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 103,742 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,972 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 — 38,744 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 895,289 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 282,568 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 332,440 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,097,845 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,042,810 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 212,547 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 441,519 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,912,558 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 519,295 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,165,303 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 — 487,939 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 761,978 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 — 1,827,466 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 — 94,655 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 — 373,745 ratings
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Envy
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4.22 avg rating — 25,920 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.85 avg rating — 169,419 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 134,690 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,660 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 — 133,195 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,287,415 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,707 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.09 avg rating — 113,751 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 343,025 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 132,768 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,978 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 289,834 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,099,872 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,765 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 112,922 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,151,855 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 297,708 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 851,019 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.27 avg rating — 595,380 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. :)