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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,042,477 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,162,625 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,313,405 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,908,758 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,019,322 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,832,954 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,757,849 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,709,123 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 332,861 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,109,290 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 567,630 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,529,046 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,028,420 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 817,514 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 563,952 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,051,944 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,607,794 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,376,338 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 — 2,033,047 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,501,579 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 387,877 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,471,619 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 320,990 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 838,521 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 — 1,003,848 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 219,331 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 723,246 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 660,139 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 280,077 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 947,303 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 557,573 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 103,397 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 426,341 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 497,681 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,041 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,881,927 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,864,850 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 382,600 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,309,143 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 285,618 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 270,783 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 743,473 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.58 avg rating — 251,341 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 508,241 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 — 586,614 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,360 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 34,962 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 297,761 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 261,126 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,987 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,291 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,079 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 27,806 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 218,278 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 48,303 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.14 avg rating — 1,914,390 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 100,371 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,592 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 — 38,524 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 873,931 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 277,794 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 327,922 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,063,945 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,027,515 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 207,587 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 430,632 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,770,303 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 514,927 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,125,550 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 — 478,277 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 737,335 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 — 109 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,778,978 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 — 90,113 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 — 364,776 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,086 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,479 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 132,241 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,501 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 — 130,255 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,265,838 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,514 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 108,578 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 326,335 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 127,809 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,387 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 286,115 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,051,593 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,325 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 101,488 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,120,326 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 292,579 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 830,237 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 574,834 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. :)