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The Song of Achilles
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4.30 avg rating — 1,946,314 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 — 577,477 ratings
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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4.37 avg rating — 3,572,031 ratings
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The Silent Patient
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4.17 avg rating — 3,167,331 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,500 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 515,917 ratings
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Clap When You Land
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4.22 avg rating — 109,269 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 — 472,222 ratings
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Under the Whispering Door
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4.11 avg rating — 315,843 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 147,996 ratings
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Ring Shout
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3.94 avg rating — 54,467 ratings
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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4.07 avg rating — 285,270 ratings
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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3.97 avg rating — 434,207 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 195,030 ratings
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.99 avg rating — 316,280 ratings
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White Noise
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3.86 avg rating — 126,228 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 622,679 ratings
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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
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4.10 avg rating — 44,083 ratings
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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4.16 avg rating — 63,316 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 161,585 ratings
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The Mountains Sing
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4.31 avg rating — 61,162 ratings
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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4.28 avg rating — 325,326 ratings
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This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
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3.82 avg rating — 3,880 ratings
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Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 79,317 ratings
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The Song of the Lark
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3.89 avg rating — 11,733 ratings
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Speak
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4.05 avg rating — 628,840 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 469,046 ratings
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The Whisper Man
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4.01 avg rating — 193,545 ratings
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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
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3.87 avg rating — 3,327 ratings
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Hoot
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3.84 avg rating — 110,389 ratings
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Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 109,031 ratings
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The Fountains of Silence
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4.31 avg rating — 81,421 ratings
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The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 215,241 ratings
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 70,613 ratings
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The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 110,823 ratings
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The Trumpet of the Swan
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4.11 avg rating — 81,975 ratings
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River Sing Me Home
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3.98 avg rating — 31,368 ratings
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Beach Music
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4.19 avg rating — 54,550 ratings
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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4.37 avg rating — 399,305 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,200,839 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 126,470 ratings
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And the Mountains Echoed
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4.08 avg rating — 401,708 ratings
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Call Us What We Carry
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4.26 avg rating — 26,179 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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4.48 avg rating — 107,732 ratings
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Women Talking
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3.62 avg rating — 66,802 ratings
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
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4.42 avg rating — 171,787 ratings
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The Whispers
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3.80 avg rating — 91,304 ratings
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Looking Glass Sound
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3.46 avg rating — 17,861 ratings
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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 585,680 ratings
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
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3.92 avg rating — 17,125 ratings
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,144,780 ratings
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The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 41,557 ratings
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The Whispering Dark
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3.57 avg rating — 9,205 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 80,760 ratings
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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3.90 avg rating — 129,743 ratings
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Hotel Silence
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3.81 avg rating — 12,540 ratings
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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4.51 avg rating — 41,282 ratings
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 319,642 ratings
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Sounder
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3.97 avg rating — 31,372 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 48,207 ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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4.27 avg rating — 80,283 ratings
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
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4.07 avg rating — 26,219 ratings
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The Last Lecture
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4.26 avg rating — 362,316 ratings
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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry, #2)
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4.08 avg rating — 32,663 ratings
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The Turn of the Key
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3.91 avg rating — 324,973 ratings
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Crying in H Mart
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4.23 avg rating — 586,085 ratings
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The Echo of Old Books
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4.26 avg rating — 122,787 ratings
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Quiet in Her Bones
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3.60 avg rating — 8,646 ratings
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How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
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4.28 avg rating — 2,359 ratings
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Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
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3.94 avg rating — 162,811 ratings
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The Man Who Laughs
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4.24 avg rating — 14,827 ratings
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The Ex Talk
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3.67 avg rating — 100,440 ratings
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Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 105,939 ratings
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Calling for a Blanket Dance
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4.23 avg rating — 5,651 ratings
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Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
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4.02 avg rating — 27,448 ratings
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The Quiet Gentleman
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4.04 avg rating — 9,964 ratings
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The Whispering Muse
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3.92 avg rating — 4,653 ratings
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Prophet Song
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4.03 avg rating — 81,450 ratings
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Dead Silence
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3.79 avg rating — 37,450 ratings
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Signal to Noise
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3.74 avg rating — 4,950 ratings
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The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 74,704 ratings
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Ghost Music
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3.49 avg rating — 5,686 ratings
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Thank You for Listening
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3.99 avg rating — 97,366 ratings
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
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4.03 avg rating — 149,050 ratings
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Shotgun Lovesongs
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3.79 avg rating — 19,516 ratings
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
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3.97 avg rating — 37,400 ratings
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)
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4.45 avg rating — 92,064 ratings
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The Secret Chord
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3.68 avg rating — 21,843 ratings
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #8)
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3.96 avg rating — 54,014 ratings
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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
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3.79 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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The Elephant Whisperer: Learning about Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants
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4.50 avg rating — 32,562 ratings
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The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #5)
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4.23 avg rating — 95,576 ratings
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My Own Words
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4.03 avg rating — 26,962 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 73,854 ratings
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Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 51,335 ratings
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 441,902 ratings
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Song of the Lion (Leaphorn & Chee, #21)
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4.11 avg rating — 10,072 ratings
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Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)
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4.13 avg rating — 16,693 ratings
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A Quiet Life
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3.49 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Silent Key
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3.63 avg rating — 228 ratings
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1. A book with a sound-related word in the title
Examples: quiet, silent, thunder, hear, screaming, whisper, music, piano (which means quiet in the context of music), symphony, any instrument or object with a sound-related purpose (like radio, metronome, speaker), also onomatopoeia (e.g. tick tock)