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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,014,669 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,151,542 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.23 avg rating — 1,296,502 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,871,035 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,877,804 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,784,696 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,728,613 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,698,784 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 330,365 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,095,794 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 565,816 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,378,954 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,024,002 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 809,099 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 561,228 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,048,106 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,593,716 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,358,939 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 — 2,011,592 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,444,785 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 384,614 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,440,645 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 317,358 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 828,672 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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4.09 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 996,352 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 218,209 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 720,174 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 657,035 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 278,365 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 936,312 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 553,421 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,265 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 421,787 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 496,385 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 23,213 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,841,898 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,856,259 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 377,545 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,282,713 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 283,578 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 268,782 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 729,022 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 238,776 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 505,081 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 — 579,988 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,154 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 34,801 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,758 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.04 avg rating — 258,125 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,336 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,207 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,074 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 27,720 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 217,412 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 47,301 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,869,792 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 98,657 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,048 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.96 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,431 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 864,719 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 276,385 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 326,384 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,048,032 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,022,234 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 206,113 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 425,958 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,709,272 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 513,374 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,110,459 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 474,427 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 727,635 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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4.09 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,758,645 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 — 88,270 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 — 360,789 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 24,830 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,099 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 131,373 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,425 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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4.14 avg rating — 128,927 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,257,678 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,427 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 106,799 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 321,564 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,409 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,101 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 284,662 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,033,181 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 95,058 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 98,164 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,107,645 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 290,641 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 823,719 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 566,713 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. :)