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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,100,504 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,187,099 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,346,621 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,982,094 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 10,290,609 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,932,806 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,819,779 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,727,733 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 338,284 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,139,416 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 571,754 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,837,765 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,038,091 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.20 avg rating — 831,879 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 569,400 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,059,101 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,635,350 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,412,377 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 — 2,078,971 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,637,731 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 395,165 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,530,592 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 328,262 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 859,695 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 — 1,018,888 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 222,045 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 730,811 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 666,857 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 283,634 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 964,220 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.24 avg rating — 567,522 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,840 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 436,306 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 500,477 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 25,115 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,953,632 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,878,951 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 391,784 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,382,816 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 289,548 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 275,185 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 771,122 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 289,319 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 515,425 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 — 598,838 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,894 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 — 306,371 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 266,687 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 171,080 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,438 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 — 220,003 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 50,575 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 2,007,802 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 103,058 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 — 891,435 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 281,464 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 331,262 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,091,966 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,039,937 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 211,738 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 439,583 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,888,347 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 518,398 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,157,384 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 — 486,014 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 756,853 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 — 1,819,388 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 — 93,845 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 — 372,026 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 — 169,244 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 134,205 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 — 132,641 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,282,889 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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4.09 avg rating — 112,700 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 339,604 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 131,896 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,851 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,989 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,090,035 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,709 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 102,134 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,146,606 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 296,795 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 847,492 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.27 avg rating — 591,569 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. :)