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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,050,974 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,166,591 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,319,251 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,921,081 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,063,370 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,850,514 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,767,987 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,712,307 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 333,727 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,114,681 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 568,370 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,576,601 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,030,069 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 819,924 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 564,857 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,053,185 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,612,068 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,382,075 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 — 2,040,666 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,524,294 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 389,020 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,481,354 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 322,160 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 841,995 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 — 1,006,292 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 219,746 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 724,347 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 661,295 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 280,707 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 950,225 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 559,189 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 103,857 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 427,995 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,207 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,251 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,894,547 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,867,401 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 384,431 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,323,461 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 286,258 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 271,514 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 748,099 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 256,482 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 509,449 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 — 588,736 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,448 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,015 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 299,013 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 262,212 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,207 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,339 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 — 27,849 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 218,567 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 48,638 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,929,235 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 100,896 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,769 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 — 38,552 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 876,831 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 278,459 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 328,466 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,069,131 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,028,896 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 208,159 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 432,240 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,788,802 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 515,485 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,131,100 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 — 479,617 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 740,954 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 — 1,785,589 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 — 90,809 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 — 365,970 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,169 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,591 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 132,558 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,537 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 — 130,727 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,268,490 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,540 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 109,250 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 328,065 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,320 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,473 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 286,668 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,058,038 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,404 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 102,829 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,124,421 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 293,284 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 832,665 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 577,356 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. :)