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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,237,456 ratings
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Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
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3.75 avg rating — 2,041,081 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,821,901 ratings
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 2,217,162 ratings
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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4.52 avg rating — 1,120,659 ratings
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.25 avg rating — 790,190 ratings
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The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
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4.37 avg rating — 1,268,391 ratings
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Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 688,952 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,038,057 ratings
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The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)
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3.97 avg rating — 73,743 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,976 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 283,631 ratings
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Nineteen Minutes
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4.18 avg rating — 438,386 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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3.72 avg rating — 81,909 ratings
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Still Alice
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4.33 avg rating — 366,807 ratings
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Beastly (Beastly, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 178,786 ratings
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Marked (House of Night, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 529,391 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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4.05 avg rating — 114,446 ratings
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In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 455,172 ratings
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Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 94,828 ratings
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 255,630 ratings
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On Chesil Beach
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3.63 avg rating — 106,086 ratings
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Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 137,963 ratings
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Heart-Shaped Box
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3.84 avg rating — 160,271 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 284,829 ratings
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Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 166,957 ratings
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The Arrival
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4.35 avg rating — 60,979 ratings
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The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
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3.85 avg rating — 706,479 ratings
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The Children of Húrin
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4.07 avg rating — 96,801 ratings
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The Woods
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4.06 avg rating — 115,386 ratings
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Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 167,050 ratings
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The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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4.37 avg rating — 728,742 ratings
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The Moses Expedition (Father Anthony Fowler, #2)
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3.72 avg rating — 4,941 ratings
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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 138,716 ratings
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Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 110,681 ratings
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Dance With Deception (Scandalous Secrets #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Then We Came to the End
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3.47 avg rating — 37,113 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 196,969 ratings
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The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 169,596 ratings
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First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
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4.03 avg rating — 27,918 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.16 avg rating — 209,572 ratings
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 93,285 ratings
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The Raw Shark Texts
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3.82 avg rating — 22,381 ratings
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Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 235,062 ratings
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The Uncommon Reader
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3.73 avg rating — 63,449 ratings
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Peony in Love
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3.64 avg rating — 51,519 ratings
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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4.22 avg rating — 191,667 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,948 ratings
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I Am America
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3.90 avg rating — 85,020 ratings
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The Abstinence Teacher
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3.27 avg rating — 17,812 ratings
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Twisted
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3.82 avg rating — 37,810 ratings
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The Ghost
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3.83 avg rating — 21,512 ratings
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Betrayed (House of Night, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 282,503 ratings
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Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 58,555 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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3.82 avg rating — 50,240 ratings
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Book of a Thousand Days
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3.97 avg rating — 57,037 ratings
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Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 34,823 ratings
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All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7)
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4.05 avg rating — 209,550 ratings
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Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4)
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4.28 avg rating — 146,061 ratings
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Masquerade (Blue Bloods, #2)
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3.91 avg rating — 92,526 ratings
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Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
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4.25 avg rating — 166,052 ratings
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Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 44,238 ratings
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Innocent in Death (In Death, #24)
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4.40 avg rating — 35,540 ratings
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The Overlook (Harry Bosch, #13; Harry Bosch Universe, #18)
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4.02 avg rating — 59,378 ratings
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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3.49 avg rating — 93,159 ratings
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Creation in Death (In Death, #25)
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4.40 avg rating — 30,897 ratings
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Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5)
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4.31 avg rating — 142,712 ratings
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For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)
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4.32 avg rating — 60,000 ratings
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The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)
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4.31 avg rating — 31,674 ratings
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Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 78,832 ratings
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Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 136,660 ratings
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Extras (Uglies, #4)
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3.59 avg rating — 129,445 ratings
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The Wheel of Darkness (Pendergast, #8)
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3.97 avg rating — 33,621 ratings
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Bloodfever (Fever, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 115,131 ratings
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The Vegetarian
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3.65 avg rating — 460,059 ratings
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Loving Frank
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3.77 avg rating — 102,736 ratings
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An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly, #3)
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3.97 avg rating — 37,642 ratings
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Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 33,103 ratings
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Love, Stargirl (Stargirl, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 44,609 ratings
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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3.74 avg rating — 86,531 ratings
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Before I Die
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3.81 avg rating — 58,579 ratings
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Big Boned (Heather Wells, #3)
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3.84 avg rating — 24,071 ratings
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The Post-Birthday World
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3.58 avg rating — 15,271 ratings
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Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
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3.95 avg rating — 33,056 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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4.07 avg rating — 120,701 ratings
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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3.76 avg rating — 69,615 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.31 avg rating — 56,439 ratings
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Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 58,093 ratings
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Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
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3.73 avg rating — 21,658 ratings
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 812,975 ratings
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The Luxe (Luxe, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 74,721 ratings
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Bad Monkeys
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3.61 avg rating — 11,446 ratings
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White Night (The Dresden Files, #9)
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4.38 avg rating — 130,256 ratings
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Impulse (Impulse, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 83,444 ratings
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Song of the Sparrow
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4.10 avg rating — 10,732 ratings
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Blue Noon (Midnighters, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 17,377 ratings
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
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4.03 avg rating — 12,322 ratings
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Stray (Shifters, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 37,525 ratings
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Eternity in Death (In Death, #25.5)
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4.23 avg rating — 14,083 ratings
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Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 629,651 ratings
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan is on this list twice, once around 25 and once in the 200s. It's also on the 2006 list.
I told it to remove duplicates, so hopefully it's no longer listed twice.
I wonder whether people are using this list to actually look at the best works of literature, which is surely what most people would like this list to be. It seems like adding cookbooks or volumes of anime is against the point. It's not "books that were enjoyed during 2007" or "books that we happen to have read that were published in 2007", after all.
I've removed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008, according to GR) and Mister Pip (2006).
Removing
The Secret Magdalene, by Ki Longfellow (2005)
What is the What, by Dave Eggers (2006)
Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett (2002)
Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale (2005)
Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart (2006)
Magic Study, by Maria V. Snyder (2006)
Sovereign, by C.J. Sansom (2006)
The Tenderness of Wolves, by Stef Penney
Remainder, by Tom McCarthy (2005)
Revelation, by C.J. Sansom (2008)
Restless, by William Boyd (2006)
Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006)
Epic, by Conor Kostick (2005)
Dissolution, by C.J. Sansom (2003)