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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 3,089,417 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,183,033 ratings
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Ready Player One
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4.22 avg rating — 1,341,025 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,969,534 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,243,744 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,910,698 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,807,977 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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4.12 avg rating — 1,724,692 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 337,339 ratings
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The Night Circus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,134,814 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 570,917 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,769,084 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,036,479 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 829,145 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 568,493 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,057,910 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,630,270 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,406,180 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 — 2,070,578 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,613,009 ratings
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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 393,872 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,519,785 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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4.34 avg rating — 326,892 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 855,837 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 — 1,016,159 ratings
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 221,523 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 729,384 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 665,659 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 283,021 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 961,236 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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4.24 avg rating — 565,719 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,480 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 434,429 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 500,004 ratings
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Tell Me Lies
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3.73 avg rating — 24,967 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
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4.19 avg rating — 1,941,725 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,876,513 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 390,274 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,371,503 ratings
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The Namesake
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4.02 avg rating — 288,853 ratings
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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 274,393 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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4.20 avg rating — 765,590 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.60 avg rating — 281,550 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 514,019 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 — 596,665 ratings
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Bet Me
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3.94 avg rating — 95,802 ratings
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Honor's Splendour
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4.23 avg rating — 35,281 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 304,803 ratings
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David Copperfield: Library Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 265,823 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 170,640 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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3.62 avg rating — 55,413 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,101 ratings
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Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 28,007 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4.08 avg rating — 219,593 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 50,146 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,989,740 ratings
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 102,611 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 31,486 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen
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3.97 avg rating — 264 ratings
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The Dark Highlander (Highlander, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 38,717 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 888,262 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 280,860 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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3.98 avg rating — 330,615 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,086,778 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,037,290 ratings
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 211,017 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.34 avg rating — 438,054 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,867,864 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 517,789 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,151,795 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 — 484,624 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 753,161 ratings
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Moral Compass to Be, or Not to Be
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4.36 avg rating — 81 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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4.10 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,812,791 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 — 93,233 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 — 370,711 ratings
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Envy
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4.21 avg rating — 25,612 ratings
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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3.85 avg rating — 169,107 ratings
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The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 133,819 ratings
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The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 14,623 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 — 132,242 ratings
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Eleanor & Park
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3.92 avg rating — 1,279,867 ratings
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The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 37,672 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.09 avg rating — 111,921 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 336,737 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 131,171 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 63,749 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,491 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,082,958 ratings
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Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 95,677 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.17 avg rating — 100,634 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,141,838 ratings
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Go Set a Watchman
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3.31 avg rating — 296,112 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 844,404 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 588,496 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. :)