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While the Hunger Games is a great story, people know about it and there are over 1 million GoodReads ratings for it. What works do you know of that are brilliant but unknown to the GoodReads community?

Here is my list and please feel free to add to it. All works should meet the following criteria:
1) Be 5 star reads in their own right (Plays and even musicals are acceptable provided that they are still five star works when reduced to the printed or electronic page)

2) Have 1000 or less ratings on GoodReads

3) Are NOT written by the person posting them or blood kin. I'm sure my mom would post some of my writings on the fridge but they don't belong on this list.

Maybe we can push a few over the 1000 ratings limit but I'll delete any that are in the 50K+ range
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4.37 avg rating — 186 ratings
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3.62 avg rating — 639 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 297 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 201 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 199 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 161 ratings
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3.51 avg rating — 626 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 1,821 ratings
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4.36 avg rating — 131 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 813 ratings
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 1,539 ratings
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4.36 avg rating — 264 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 910 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 85 ratings
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3.90 avg rating — 232 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 239 ratings
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4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 1,022 ratings
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3.91 avg rating — 655 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings
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3.51 avg rating — 57 ratings
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 121 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 350 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 374 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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3.33 avg rating — 45 ratings
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4.59 avg rating — 619 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 577 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 661 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 77 ratings
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3.91 avg rating — 76 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 116 ratings
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4.19 avg rating — 403 ratings
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4.19 avg rating — 99 ratings
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3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 621 ratings
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3.50 avg rating — 34 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 319 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 70 ratings
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3.62 avg rating — 134 ratings
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 278 ratings
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3.64 avg rating — 362 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 397 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 641 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 1,777 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 654 ratings
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3.60 avg rating — 307 ratings
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3.66 avg rating — 555 ratings
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3.91 avg rating — 781 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 953 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 513 ratings
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3.81 avg rating — 416 ratings
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3.41 avg rating — 41 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 1,730 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 374 ratings
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3.57 avg rating — 838 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 608 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 266 ratings
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3.90 avg rating — 158 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 986 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 390 ratings
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3.82 avg rating — 297 ratings
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4.38 avg rating — 240 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 451 ratings
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4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 208 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 279 ratings
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4.32 avg rating — 917 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 148 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 258 ratings
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3.65 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings
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315 books · 40 voters · list created December 22nd, 2012 by Stephen (votes) .
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Stephen 6828 books
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Michael 3542 books
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Prashant 777 books
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Joanne 1441 books
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Werner 2394 books
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Simon 856 books
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Vikram 338 books
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Adam 188 books
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message 1: by Werner (new)

Werner Stephen, is this list just for "literary" works (fiction, poetry, plays, essays, etc.), or does it include other kinds of nonfiction, too?


message 2: by Stephen (new)

Stephen Werner wrote: "Stephen, is this list just for "literary" works (fiction, poetry, plays, essays, etc.), or does it include other kinds of nonfiction, too?"

Sorry I missed the notify on your question. Non-fiction would be fine too. I was primarily thinking of fiction but if it's excellent and almost no one's heard of it (rated it) it belongs on this list.


message 3: by Werner (new)

Werner Thanks, Stephen!


message 4: by Heidi (new)

Heidi Some of these books listed have way
more than 1000 ratings.


message 6: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jul 07, 2019 07:56AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) @Stephen
By the way, I have a feeling the description has been added to since it first appeared?


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