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3.84 avg rating — 195,049 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 141,225 ratings
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3.79 avg rating — 51,801 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 3,587,441 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 41,428 ratings
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3.78 avg rating — 7,752 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 5,442 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 20,628 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 9,449 ratings
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3.78 avg rating — 30,725 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 125,867 ratings
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129 books · 12 voters · list created February 23rd, 2015 by Lilly (votes) .
Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes.


Lilly 1010 books
23 friends
K 2135 books
18 friends
Eleri 972 books
48 friends
Saturday's 2319 books
65 friends
Emma 724 books
12 friends
Paige 628 books
5 friends
Isabel 1988 books
105 friends
Emily 102 books
14 friends

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message 1: by Holly (new)

Holly Is this list more for adults who are first reading YA or teens/kids who are first reading YA?


message 2: by Lilly (new)

Lilly Holly wrote: "Is this list more for adults who are first reading YA or teens/kids who are first reading YA?"
It's for both teenagers and adults, I suppose. It's supposed to be a list of books that anyone can read to get into YA books.


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