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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,591,120 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
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4.54 avg rating — 739,076 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,345,408 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,324,683 ratings
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The Screwtape Letters
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4.27 avg rating — 534,788 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.02 avg rating — 4,659,252 ratings
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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4.51 avg rating — 218,359 ratings
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Starship Troopers
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4.01 avg rating — 248,922 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.33 avg rating — 1,046,184 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.98 avg rating — 2,109,450 ratings
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Monster Hunter International (MHI, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 30,378 ratings
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The Maltese Falcon
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3.86 avg rating — 117,047 ratings
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The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 390,500 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 126,761 ratings
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State of Fear
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3.71 avg rating — 92,525 ratings
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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3.82 avg rating — 47,325 ratings
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Hard Magic (Grimnoir Chronicles, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 16,330 ratings
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Flashman
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4.05 avg rating — 16,200 ratings
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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4.28 avg rating — 714,746 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,526,155 ratings
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The Last Centurion
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3.99 avg rating — 2,632 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 409,278 ratings
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Red Storm Rising
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4.21 avg rating — 85,395 ratings
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Lucifer's Hammer
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45,646 ratings
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Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
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4.29 avg rating — 42,551 ratings
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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3.78 avg rating — 108,762 ratings
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Amy Lynn
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4.48 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 894,221 ratings
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The Thin Man
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3.89 avg rating — 38,824 ratings
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 547,166 ratings
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 273,859 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.84 avg rating — 1,215,765 ratings
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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4.15 avg rating — 140,114 ratings
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Kim
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3.70 avg rating — 40,332 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 883,134 ratings
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Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
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4.29 avg rating — 32,453 ratings
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Life Unworthy
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3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 432,643 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 406,352 ratings
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The Secret Agent
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3.59 avg rating — 25,180 ratings
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Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 148,272 ratings
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On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 49,225 ratings
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The Ballad of the White Horse
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4.26 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
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The Story of Ferdinand
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4.37 avg rating — 94,740 ratings
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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4.30 avg rating — 329,778 ratings
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Snow Crash
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4.01 avg rating — 300,192 ratings
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Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 97,914 ratings
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Gates of Fire
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4.40 avg rating — 44,757 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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3.99 avg rating — 121,307 ratings
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 170,679 ratings
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 339,609 ratings
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Live Free or Die (Troy Rising, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 9,600 ratings
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The Sand Pebbles
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4.26 avg rating — 2,538 ratings
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True Grit
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4.17 avg rating — 75,637 ratings
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Cryptonomicon
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4.23 avg rating — 117,592 ratings
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The Pickwick Papers
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3.85 avg rating — 32,547 ratings
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The Alto Wore Tweed (The Liturgical Mystery #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,290 ratings
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,660,544 ratings
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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4.52 avg rating — 1,098,500 ratings
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Master & Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 64,497 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 116,444 ratings
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The Whitechapel Conspiracy (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #21)
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4.03 avg rating — 3,846 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.24 avg rating — 815,049 ratings
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
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3.98 avg rating — 15,280 ratings
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 73,999 ratings
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My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 47,159 ratings
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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4.06 avg rating — 107,583 ratings
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The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
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4.32 avg rating — 31,982 ratings
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Battle Cry
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4.17 avg rating — 10,300 ratings
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Sharpe's Rifles (Sharpe, #6)
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4.27 avg rating — 20,074 ratings
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Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 48,378 ratings
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Ubik
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4.11 avg rating — 125,501 ratings
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The Wolves
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4.24 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Fields of Fire
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4.21 avg rating — 7,954 ratings
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Captains Courageous
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3.85 avg rating — 22,600 ratings
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| 74 |
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The Affairs of the Generals
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3.91 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Declare
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4.03 avg rating — 5,828 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 733,693 ratings
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Take the Star Road (The Maxwell Saga, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,022 ratings
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King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 53,138 ratings
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| 81 |
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
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4.46 avg rating — 14,167 ratings
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A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 87,511 ratings
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Where Eagles Dare
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4.14 avg rating — 47,141 ratings
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
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4.13 avg rating — 10,342 ratings
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The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 58,786 ratings
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Away All Boats
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4.24 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 130,128 ratings
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Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
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4.05 avg rating — 40,311 ratings
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The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
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4.03 avg rating — 21,704 ratings
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The Riverside Shakespeare
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4.52 avg rating — 4,789 ratings
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Black Obelisk
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4.38 avg rating — 16,087 ratings
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Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)
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4.14 avg rating — 58,801 ratings
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The Camp of the Saints
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3.88 avg rating — 2,242 ratings
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The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan, #4)
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4.10 avg rating — 61,351 ratings
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Run Silent, Run Deep
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4.21 avg rating — 4,746 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 929,513 ratings
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Mr. Bliss
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3.81 avg rating — 2,955 ratings
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Morgoth's Ring (The History of Middle-Earth, #10)
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4.18 avg rating — 2,443 ratings
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The Shanghai Factor
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3.72 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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3.89 avg rating — 280,169 ratings
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