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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,237,903 ratings
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Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
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3.75 avg rating — 2,041,238 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,822,140 ratings
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 2,217,311 ratings
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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4.52 avg rating — 1,120,773 ratings
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.25 avg rating — 790,255 ratings
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The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
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4.37 avg rating — 1,268,535 ratings
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Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 688,978 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.83 avg rating — 1,038,092 ratings
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The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)
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3.97 avg rating — 73,746 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.05 avg rating — 288,989 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 283,634 ratings
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Nineteen Minutes
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4.18 avg rating — 438,453 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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3.72 avg rating — 81,915 ratings
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Still Alice
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4.33 avg rating — 366,822 ratings
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Beastly (Beastly, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 178,789 ratings
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Marked (House of Night, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 529,407 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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4.05 avg rating — 114,448 ratings
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In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 455,250 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 — 255,642 ratings
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On Chesil Beach
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3.63 avg rating — 106,099 ratings
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Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 137,977 ratings
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Heart-Shaped Box
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3.84 avg rating — 160,286 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 284,849 ratings
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Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 166,958 ratings
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The Arrival
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4.35 avg rating — 60,982 ratings
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The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
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3.85 avg rating — 706,526 ratings
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The Children of Húrin
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4.07 avg rating — 96,810 ratings
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The Woods
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4.06 avg rating — 115,400 ratings
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Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 167,053 ratings
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The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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4.37 avg rating — 728,938 ratings
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The Moses Expedition (Father Anthony Fowler, #2)
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3.72 avg rating — 4,942 ratings
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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 138,730 ratings
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Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 110,699 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 — 37,115 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 196,977 ratings
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The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 169,606 ratings
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First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
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4.03 avg rating — 27,920 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.16 avg rating — 209,613 ratings
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 93,289 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 — 235,110 ratings
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The Uncommon Reader
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3.73 avg rating — 63,455 ratings
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Peony in Love
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3.64 avg rating — 51,521 ratings
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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4.22 avg rating — 191,670 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 — 85,022 ratings
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The Abstinence Teacher
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3.27 avg rating — 17,813 ratings
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Twisted
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3.82 avg rating — 37,814 ratings
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The Ghost
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3.83 avg rating — 21,515 ratings
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Betrayed (House of Night, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 282,511 ratings
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Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 58,557 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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3.82 avg rating — 50,244 ratings
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Book of a Thousand Days
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3.97 avg rating — 57,038 ratings
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Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 34,824 ratings
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All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7)
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4.05 avg rating — 209,555 ratings
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Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4)
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4.28 avg rating — 146,066 ratings
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Masquerade (Blue Bloods, #2)
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3.91 avg rating — 92,528 ratings
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Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
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4.25 avg rating — 166,074 ratings
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Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 44,241 ratings
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Innocent in Death (In Death, #24)
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4.40 avg rating — 35,545 ratings
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The Overlook (Harry Bosch, #13; Harry Bosch Universe, #18)
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4.02 avg rating — 59,387 ratings
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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3.49 avg rating — 93,163 ratings
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Creation in Death (In Death, #25)
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4.40 avg rating — 30,901 ratings
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Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5)
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4.31 avg rating — 142,717 ratings
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For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)
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4.32 avg rating — 60,002 ratings
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The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)
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4.31 avg rating — 31,677 ratings
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Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 78,835 ratings
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Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 136,666 ratings
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Extras (Uglies, #4)
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3.59 avg rating — 129,448 ratings
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The Wheel of Darkness (Pendergast, #8)
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3.97 avg rating — 33,623 ratings
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Bloodfever (Fever, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 115,138 ratings
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The Vegetarian
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3.65 avg rating — 460,267 ratings
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Loving Frank
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3.77 avg rating — 102,740 ratings
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An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly, #3)
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3.97 avg rating — 37,644 ratings
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Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 33,105 ratings
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Love, Stargirl (Stargirl, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 44,612 ratings
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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3.74 avg rating — 86,537 ratings
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Before I Die
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3.81 avg rating — 58,581 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 — 15,273 ratings
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Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
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3.95 avg rating — 33,059 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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4.07 avg rating — 120,705 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 — 69,617 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.31 avg rating — 56,446 ratings
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Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 58,097 ratings
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Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
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3.73 avg rating — 21,659 ratings
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 813,036 ratings
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The Luxe (Luxe, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 74,722 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 — 130,267 ratings
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Impulse (Impulse, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 83,449 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 — 12,324 ratings
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Stray (Shifters, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 37,526 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 — 629,721 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)