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The Yellow Wallpaper
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4.06 avg rating — 377,631 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 748,959 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 384,344 ratings
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The Stepford Wives
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3.89 avg rating — 59,057 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.11 avg rating — 954,620 ratings
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Revolutionary Road
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3.94 avg rating — 95,022 ratings
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Ladder of Years
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3.73 avg rating — 20,093 ratings
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The Lost Treasure of the Templars (The Lost Treasure of the Templars #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
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The End of the Affair
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3.90 avg rating — 73,318 ratings
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The Deep End (The Country Club Murders #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 10,071 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 231,501 ratings
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She’s Come Undone
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3.92 avg rating — 368,410 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.04 avg rating — 1,279,393 ratings
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Wifey
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3.41 avg rating — 17,941 ratings
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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4.04 avg rating — 135,938 ratings
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Brick Lane
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3.46 avg rating — 36,197 ratings
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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3.86 avg rating — 570,674 ratings
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Little Children
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3.64 avg rating — 33,546 ratings
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The Painted Veil
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3.98 avg rating — 52,989 ratings
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The First Wives Club
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3.89 avg rating — 20,936 ratings
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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
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3.83 avg rating — 38,564 ratings
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Dolores Claiborne
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3.95 avg rating — 174,327 ratings
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Lady Oracle
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3.68 avg rating — 15,968 ratings
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The Pull of the Moon
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3.79 avg rating — 10,897 ratings
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Diary of a Mad Housewife
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3.80 avg rating — 2,023 ratings
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The Rector's Wife
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3.77 avg rating — 3,900 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.77 avg rating — 368,269 ratings
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Gold Coast Wives
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Open House
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3.70 avg rating — 61,504 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,381,844 ratings
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Switcheroo
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3.35 avg rating — 1,226 ratings
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Mrs. Kimble
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3.68 avg rating — 10,639 ratings
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Compromising Positions (Judith Singer, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
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Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 13,788 ratings
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The Life and Loves of a She Devil
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3.76 avg rating — 6,560 ratings
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How to Be an American Housewife
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3.65 avg rating — 13,700 ratings
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The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc
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3.72 avg rating — 5,131 ratings
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Having It and Eating It
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3.05 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Tara Road
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3.94 avg rating — 83,283 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 934,333 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,512,010 ratings
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Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 23,174 ratings
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Black and Blue
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3.89 avg rating — 84,239 ratings
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Burnt Offerings
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3.78 avg rating — 10,132 ratings
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The Sunday Wife
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3.80 avg rating — 5,133 ratings
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Mrs de Winter
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3.11 avg rating — 3,571 ratings
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Waiting to Exhale (Waiting to Exhale, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 18,407 ratings
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The Future Homemakers of America
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3.67 avg rating — 1,974 ratings
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The Saving Graces
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3.80 avg rating — 16,317 ratings
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Lucia, Lucia
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3.99 avg rating — 21,681 ratings
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Overlook
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3.84 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Trouble Won't Wait (Love-n-Trouble #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 383 ratings
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All Fore Revenge
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4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Ellie and the Harpmaker
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3.83 avg rating — 9,278 ratings
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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
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3.85 avg rating — 8,910 ratings
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My Cousin Rachel
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4.01 avg rating — 72,385 ratings
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The Cracker Factory
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3.90 avg rating — 440 ratings
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The Piano Teacher
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3.37 avg rating — 24,146 ratings
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The Septembers of Shiraz
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3.84 avg rating — 8,592 ratings
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The First Time
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3.90 avg rating — 3,221 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 1,746,539 ratings
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The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 278,539 ratings
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Rose Madder
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3.76 avg rating — 126,084 ratings
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The Amityville Horror
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3.82 avg rating — 139,199 ratings
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Little Earthquakes
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3.79 avg rating — 91,321 ratings
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Tulip Fever
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3.54 avg rating — 13,368 ratings
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The I Hate to Cook Book
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3.91 avg rating — 844 ratings
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Like Water for Chocolate
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3.95 avg rating — 402,230 ratings
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Someone Like You
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3.83 avg rating — 5,435 ratings
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The Choir
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3.81 avg rating — 2,817 ratings
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Orlando
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3.87 avg rating — 120,023 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club
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3.97 avg rating — 715,693 ratings
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Cha Cha Cha
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3.48 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Fourplay
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3.60 avg rating — 4,143 ratings
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Mildred Pierce
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3.93 avg rating — 10,978 ratings
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The Dieter
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3.95 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Where the Heart Is
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4.04 avg rating — 253,720 ratings
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The Wife
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3.69 avg rating — 31,245 ratings
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The Queen of the Big Time
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3.95 avg rating — 12,082 ratings
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Nursery Crimes (A Mommy-Track Mystery, #1)
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3.44 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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Little Altars Everywhere
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3.59 avg rating — 31,011 ratings
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The Wedding
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3.96 avg rating — 6,831 ratings
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Sherry and Narcotics
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3.88 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Perfect Sinner (The Perfect Crightons, #6)
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2.75 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Book of Eve
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3.85 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Sex, Doug, and a Rocky Road
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3.78 avg rating — 54 ratings
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A Doll's House
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3.77 avg rating — 168,349 ratings
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Fire Sermon
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3.53 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
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Serious Widow
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3.98 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Lauren Takes Leave
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3.56 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Forty Rules of Love
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4.10 avg rating — 211,863 ratings
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Emily, Alone
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3.68 avg rating — 5,559 ratings
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The Watch that Ends the Night
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4.16 avg rating — 981 ratings
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Crimson Peak
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3.95 avg rating — 4,572 ratings
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Swamp Angel
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3.62 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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The Light on the Water
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3.42 avg rating — 636 ratings
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The Ladies' Room
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4.07 avg rating — 46,253 ratings
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The Passion of Dellie O'Barr
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3.51 avg rating — 77 ratings
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They Shouldn't Make You Promise That
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3.67 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Light Between Oceans
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4.05 avg rating — 487,613 ratings
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* Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
* Guy de Maupassant: Une Vie (A Woman's Life)
* Thomas Hardy: Tess
* Anthony Trollope: He Knew He Was Right
* Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
* Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
* Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca
* John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman
* Marilyn French: The Women's Room
* Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
* Joyce Carol Oates: "Man Crazy" and "Beasts"
* Susan Sontag: The Volcano Lover
* At least arguably: William Shakespeare: Othello (Desdemona)
Etc. ...