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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,052,345 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,167,237 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,320,142 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,923,051 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,070,419 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,852,980 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,769,461 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,712,819 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 333,844 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,115,550 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 568,461 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,583,554 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,030,284 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 820,342 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 565,015 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,053,394 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,612,800 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,383,010 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 — 2,041,867 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,527,735 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 389,216 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,482,857 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 322,327 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 842,560 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 — 1,006,689 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 219,805 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 724,548 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 661,459 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 280,817 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 950,650 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 559,471 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 103,923 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 428,276 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,289 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,278 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,896,525 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,867,746 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 384,684 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,325,627 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 286,367 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 271,645 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 748,745 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 257,361 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 509,623 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 — 589,096 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,458 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,028 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 299,194 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 262,331 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,247 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,342 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,086 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 27,855 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 218,620 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 48,689 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,931,455 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 100,985 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,791 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 — 38,563 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 877,259 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 278,592 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 328,537 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,069,963 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,029,071 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 208,250 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 432,499 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,791,720 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 515,597 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,131,839 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 — 479,827 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 741,447 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 — 110 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,786,541 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 — 90,916 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 — 366,150 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,189 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,613 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 132,617 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,543 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 — 130,801 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,268,990 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,545 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 109,358 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 328,318 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,432 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,482 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 286,748 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,059,067 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,408 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 103,052 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,125,086 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 293,406 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 833,038 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 577,753 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. :)