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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,264,153 ratings
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Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
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3.75 avg rating — 2,049,565 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,836,327 ratings
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 2,223,834 ratings
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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4.52 avg rating — 1,126,517 ratings
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.25 avg rating — 793,740 ratings
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The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
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4.37 avg rating — 1,276,412 ratings
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Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 690,338 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,039,975 ratings
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The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)
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3.97 avg rating — 73,824 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 289,808 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 284,385 ratings
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Nineteen Minutes
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4.18 avg rating — 441,554 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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3.72 avg rating — 82,189 ratings
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Still Alice
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4.33 avg rating — 367,805 ratings
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Beastly (Beastly, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 178,881 ratings
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Marked (House of Night, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 530,274 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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4.05 avg rating — 114,653 ratings
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In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 459,156 ratings
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Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 94,937 ratings
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 256,597 ratings
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On Chesil Beach
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3.63 avg rating — 106,729 ratings
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Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 138,287 ratings
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Heart-Shaped Box
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3.83 avg rating — 161,863 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 286,356 ratings
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Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 167,298 ratings
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The Arrival
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4.35 avg rating — 61,238 ratings
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The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
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3.85 avg rating — 709,436 ratings
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The Children of Húrin
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4.07 avg rating — 97,367 ratings
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The Woods
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4.06 avg rating — 116,054 ratings
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Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 167,135 ratings
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The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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4.37 avg rating — 740,166 ratings
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The Moses Expedition (Father Anthony Fowler, #2)
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3.72 avg rating — 4,998 ratings
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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 139,295 ratings
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Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 111,400 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 — 37,171 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 197,464 ratings
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The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 169,959 ratings
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First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
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4.03 avg rating — 27,996 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.16 avg rating — 211,728 ratings
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 93,537 ratings
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The Raw Shark Texts
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3.82 avg rating — 22,509 ratings
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Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 238,106 ratings
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The Uncommon Reader
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3.73 avg rating — 63,959 ratings
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Peony in Love
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3.64 avg rating — 51,675 ratings
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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4.22 avg rating — 191,982 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 44,036 ratings
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I Am America
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3.90 avg rating — 85,108 ratings
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The Abstinence Teacher
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3.27 avg rating — 17,841 ratings
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Twisted
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3.82 avg rating — 37,851 ratings
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The Ghost
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3.83 avg rating — 21,673 ratings
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Betrayed (House of Night, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 282,910 ratings
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Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 58,599 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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3.82 avg rating — 50,463 ratings
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Book of a Thousand Days
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3.97 avg rating — 57,141 ratings
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Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 35,008 ratings
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All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7)
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4.05 avg rating — 209,906 ratings
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Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4)
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4.28 avg rating — 146,339 ratings
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Masquerade (Blue Bloods, #2)
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3.91 avg rating — 92,554 ratings
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Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
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4.25 avg rating — 167,028 ratings
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Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 44,358 ratings
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Innocent in Death (In Death, #24)
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4.40 avg rating — 35,729 ratings
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The Overlook (Harry Bosch, #13; Harry Bosch Universe, #18)
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4.02 avg rating — 59,826 ratings
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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3.49 avg rating — 93,427 ratings
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Creation in Death (In Death, #25)
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4.40 avg rating — 31,047 ratings
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Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5)
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4.31 avg rating — 142,939 ratings
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For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)
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4.32 avg rating — 60,039 ratings
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Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 78,905 ratings
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The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)
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4.31 avg rating — 31,869 ratings
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Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 137,012 ratings
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Extras (Uglies, #4)
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3.59 avg rating — 129,672 ratings
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The Wheel of Darkness (Pendergast, #8)
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3.97 avg rating — 33,760 ratings
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Bloodfever (Fever, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 115,291 ratings
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The Vegetarian
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3.65 avg rating — 473,251 ratings
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Loving Frank
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3.77 avg rating — 102,903 ratings
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An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly, #3)
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3.97 avg rating — 37,707 ratings
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Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 33,251 ratings
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Love, Stargirl (Stargirl, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 44,670 ratings
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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3.73 avg rating — 86,891 ratings
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Before I Die
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3.81 avg rating — 58,725 ratings
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Big Boned (Heather Wells, #3)
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3.84 avg rating — 24,123 ratings
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The Post-Birthday World
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3.58 avg rating — 15,312 ratings
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Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
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3.95 avg rating — 33,136 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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4.07 avg rating — 120,938 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 — 69,718 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.31 avg rating — 56,894 ratings
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Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 58,197 ratings
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Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
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3.73 avg rating — 21,728 ratings
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 816,730 ratings
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The Luxe (Luxe, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 74,846 ratings
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Bad Monkeys
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3.61 avg rating — 11,474 ratings
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White Night (The Dresden Files, #9)
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4.38 avg rating — 130,726 ratings
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Impulse (Impulse, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 83,642 ratings
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Song of the Sparrow
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4.10 avg rating — 10,741 ratings
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Blue Noon (Midnighters, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 17,393 ratings
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Stray (Shifters, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 37,540 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 — 12,369 ratings
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Eternity in Death (In Death, #25.5)
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4.23 avg rating — 14,116 ratings
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Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 634,488 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)