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Maurice
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4.08 avg rating — 59,554 ratings
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Brokeback Mountain
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4.03 avg rating — 53,428 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,927,620 ratings
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A Single Man
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4.05 avg rating — 38,177 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
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4.34 avg rating — 269,244 ratings
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Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 607,717 ratings
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At Swim, Two Boys
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4.10 avg rating — 9,833 ratings
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The Charioteer
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4.11 avg rating — 6,675 ratings
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The Front Runner (Harlan's Story, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 6,231 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,262 ratings
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The City and the Pillar
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3.84 avg rating — 10,483 ratings
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Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 48,196 ratings
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A Boy's Own Story (The Edmund Trilogy, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 9,440 ratings
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The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 11,367 ratings
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The Swimming-Pool Library
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3.72 avg rating — 11,440 ratings
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As Meat Loves Salt
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3.93 avg rating — 6,325 ratings
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City of Night
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3.95 avg rating — 5,135 ratings
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Dancer from the Dance
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3.98 avg rating — 10,856 ratings
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty (The Edmund Trilogy, #2)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,561 ratings
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Dream Boy
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3.92 avg rating — 5,018 ratings
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Before Night Falls
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4.21 avg rating — 7,518 ratings
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
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3.92 avg rating — 16,233 ratings
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Forbidden Colors
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3.92 avg rating — 5,026 ratings
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The Boys on the Rock
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3.91 avg rating — 953 ratings
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The Carnivorous Lamb
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4.38 avg rating — 2,879 ratings
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The Catch Trap
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4.18 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
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While England Sleeps
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3.96 avg rating — 2,368 ratings
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The Absolutist
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4.11 avg rating — 24,071 ratings
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The Lost Language of Cranes
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3.98 avg rating — 7,025 ratings
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 35,476 ratings
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A Little Life
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4.27 avg rating — 960,585 ratings
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Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
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3.66 avg rating — 764 ratings
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Cry to Heaven
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3.89 avg rating — 21,957 ratings
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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
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4.17 avg rating — 3,779 ratings
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The Counterfeiters
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3.83 avg rating — 10,495 ratings
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
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4.02 avg rating — 23,018 ratings
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
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4.37 avg rating — 2,951 ratings
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The Song of Achilles
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4.30 avg rating — 2,064,603 ratings
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Comfort and Joy
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4.06 avg rating — 1,809 ratings
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Confessions of a Mask
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3.95 avg rating — 40,771 ratings
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Atom Heart John Beloved
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3.82 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Bullied
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4.21 avg rating — 351 ratings
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The Best Little Boy in the World: The 25th Anniversary Edition of the Classic Memoir
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3.84 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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Sea of Tranquillity
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3.94 avg rating — 403 ratings
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American Studies
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3.84 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Finistère
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3.83 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
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4.51 avg rating — 219,020 ratings
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Was
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3.89 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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Christopher and His Kind
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4.04 avg rating — 3,798 ratings
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The Portrait of Mr. W.H.
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3.57 avg rating — 2,507 ratings
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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3.69 avg rating — 35,827 ratings
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War Against the Animals
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3.99 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Teleny
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3.62 avg rating — 2,637 ratings
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Symposium
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4.09 avg rating — 92,236 ratings
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The Coming Storm
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3.89 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
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Martin and John
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3.68 avg rating — 975 ratings
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The Folded Leaf
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3.97 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
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Ran
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3.64 avg rating — 4,642 ratings
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Lie With Me
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4.26 avg rating — 69,756 ratings
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Swimming in the Dark
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4.25 avg rating — 81,686 ratings
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Boys of Life
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3.87 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Faggots
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3.62 avg rating — 4,037 ratings
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Querelle of Brest
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3.92 avg rating — 2,859 ratings
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Nächte auf Aruba
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3.68 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Mysterious Skin: A Novel
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4.18 avg rating — 12,924 ratings
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Wingmen
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4.40 avg rating — 393 ratings
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The Boy I Love (The Boy I Love Trilogy, #1)
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3.68 avg rating — 526 ratings
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My Policeman
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3.99 avg rating — 89,956 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 657,613 ratings
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All the Beauty of the Sun (The Boy I Love Trilogy, #2)
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4.16 avg rating — 129 ratings
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A Dead Man in Deptford
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3.81 avg rating — 1,554 ratings
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The Road to London
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3.92 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Island People
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3.69 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Fadeout (Dave Brandstetter, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
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The Lord Won't Mind
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3.72 avg rating — 733 ratings
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The Weekend
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3.69 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
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Raptor
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4.11 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
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Hallucinating Foucault
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3.99 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
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Less (Arthur Less, #1)
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3.62 avg rating — 226,655 ratings
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The God in Flight
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3.96 avg rating — 354 ratings
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The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Mister Sandman
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3.70 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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Plays Well with Others
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3.96 avg rating — 713 ratings
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What the Dead Remember
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3.79 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Afterlife
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3.90 avg rating — 430 ratings
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The Line of Beauty
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3.78 avg rating — 32,400 ratings
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The Easy Way Out
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3.75 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The Object of My Affection
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3.80 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
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Getting Over Homer
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3.48 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Dhalgren
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3.77 avg rating — 12,448 ratings
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Im Dampfbad greift nach mir ein Engel: drei Romane
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
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3.87 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Arktischer Sommer: Roman - Autor mit dem Booker Prize 2021 ausgezeichnet
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3.79 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
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The Men from the Boys (Jeff & Lloyd, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Full Circle
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4.16 avg rating — 706 ratings
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Looking For It
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3.97 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Last Summer
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4.02 avg rating — 790 ratings
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The Story of the Night
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3.89 avg rating — 3,277 ratings
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Blind Fall
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3.71 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
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The Salt Point
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3.74 avg rating — 319 ratings
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#1 is Maurice, #210 is Maurice
#4 is The Picture of Dorian Gray, #160 is Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
#6 is Call Me By Your Name, #155 is Ruf mich bei deinem Namen
Even #170 is Zwei Jungs im Sommer, which isn't on the list in the English version, Something Like Summer (so maybe that's at least a little better?)
I understand #124, which is a Dutch classic, but these others are a little ridiculous, especially when the original versions are in the top 10.