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4.37 avg rating — 186 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 443 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 188 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 481 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 201 ratings
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3.50 avg rating — 842 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 222 ratings
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3.62 avg rating — 639 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 199 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings
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4.19 avg rating — 187 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 4,847 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings
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3.59 avg rating — 949 ratings
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4.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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4.60 avg rating — 58 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings
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4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 9,759 ratings
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3.54 avg rating — 112 ratings
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4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
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3.75 avg rating — 405 ratings
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27

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4.14 avg rating — 146 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 307 ratings
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3.60 avg rating — 216 ratings
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4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 118 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 121,168 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 144,834 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 3,138 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 297 ratings
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4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings
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4.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
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4.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
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4.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 45 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 6,532 ratings
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3.69 avg rating — 82,208 ratings
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3.71 avg rating — 122 ratings
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3.35 avg rating — 336 ratings
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4.55 avg rating — 78 ratings
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4.68 avg rating — 41 ratings
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4.54 avg rating — 351 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 443 ratings
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4.19 avg rating — 9,330 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings
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3.91 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 27,898 ratings
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3.62 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 61 ratings
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3.31 avg rating — 376 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 466 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 1,202 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 88 ratings
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4.34 avg rating — 29 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 6,190 ratings
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3.78 avg rating — 4,765 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 44,302 ratings
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4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 3,526 ratings
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3.81 avg rating — 1,882 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 370 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 467 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 1,375 ratings
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3.64 avg rating — 11,537 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 648 ratings
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3.78 avg rating — 8,545 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 118 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 612 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 8,498 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 5,273 ratings
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3.52 avg rating — 3,211 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 2,958 ratings
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4.30 avg rating — 187 ratings
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3.81 avg rating — 1,515 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 27,910 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 35,861 ratings
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3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings
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3.74 avg rating — 12,357 ratings
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4.03 avg rating — 89 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 289 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 9,494 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 180 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 144 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 13,550 ratings
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3.80 avg rating — 4,650 ratings
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147 books · 64 voters · list created July 3rd, 2014 by Robin (votes) .
Tags: fiction
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message 1: by Elyse of South Jersey (last edited Nov 23, 2019 10:54AM) (new)

Elyse of South Jersey Should the ratings be less than 1000 to make these books "non-obvious"?


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