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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,049,195 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,165,761 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,318,082 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,918,603 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,054,090 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,846,636 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,765,957 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.11 avg rating — 1,711,647 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 333,541 ratings
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The Night Circus
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,113,411 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 568,208 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,566,882 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,029,684 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 819,433 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 564,668 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,052,939 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,611,184 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,380,842 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 — 2,039,109 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,519,696 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 388,768 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,479,373 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 321,899 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 841,311 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 — 1,005,761 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 219,654 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 724,146 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 661,035 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 280,567 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 949,596 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.23 avg rating — 558,811 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 103,760 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 427,652 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 498,067 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,208 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.20 avg rating — 1,892,086 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,866,949 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 384,065 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,320,485 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 286,127 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 271,355 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 747,187 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.59 avg rating — 255,365 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 509,194 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 — 588,331 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,427 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,004 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 298,759 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 261,992 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,161 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,328 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,083 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 27,842 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 218,522 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 48,571 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,926,310 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 100,793 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 30,734 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 — 38,548 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 876,231 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 278,297 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 328,364 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,068,045 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,028,617 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 208,054 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 431,927 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,785,012 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 515,361 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,130,063 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 — 479,383 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 740,289 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 — 1,784,265 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 — 90,677 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 — 365,716 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,155 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.84 avg rating — 168,566 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 132,486 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,530 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 — 130,624 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,267,969 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,542 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 109,092 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 327,714 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,221 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,456 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 286,553 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,056,639 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,385 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 102,536 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,123,532 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 293,144 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 832,167 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 576,827 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. :)