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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 511,371 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 83,496 ratings
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Birdsong
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4.11 avg rating — 83,222 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 348,249 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
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3.93 avg rating — 15,423 ratings
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Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 33,327 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 14,947 ratings
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Testament of Youth
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4.11 avg rating — 12,297 ratings
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Storm of Steel
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4.15 avg rating — 20,971 ratings
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 343,464 ratings
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The Ghost Road
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4.09 avg rating — 18,200 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
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4.32 avg rating — 4,208 ratings
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The First World War
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4.04 avg rating — 15,741 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.23 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
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Johnny Got His Gun
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4.21 avg rating — 47,979 ratings
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The Great War and Modern Memory
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4.13 avg rating — 6,126 ratings
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The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
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4.02 avg rating — 10,685 ratings
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The Good Soldier Švejk
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4.10 avg rating — 20,749 ratings
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Sebastian
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4.40 avg rating — 279 ratings
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
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4.14 avg rating — 9,153 ratings
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
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4.37 avg rating — 8,870 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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4.12 avg rating — 9,583 ratings
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Nicholas And Alexandra
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4.23 avg rating — 29,667 ratings
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
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3.91 avg rating — 11,967 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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3.81 avg rating — 4,059 ratings
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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
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4.29 avg rating — 3,028 ratings
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
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4.08 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
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August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,808 ratings
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War Horse (War Horse, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 58,349 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 159,144 ratings
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Parade's End
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3.87 avg rating — 6,782 ratings
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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
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3.87 avg rating — 3,089 ratings
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Coming Home
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3.92 avg rating — 73 ratings
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And Quiet Flows the Don
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4.11 avg rating — 13,088 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
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4.05 avg rating — 5,106 ratings
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Somewhere in France (The Great War #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 13,803 ratings
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 121,783 ratings
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Gallipoli
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4.08 avg rating — 1,200 ratings
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
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4.25 avg rating — 7,295 ratings
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The Return of the Soldier
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3.69 avg rating — 9,131 ratings
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The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 13,958 ratings
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The War Poems
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4.21 avg rating — 2,850 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,238 ratings
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Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 51,129 ratings
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
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4.13 avg rating — 2,915 ratings
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
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4.12 avg rating — 8,578 ratings
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To Serve Them All My Days
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4.33 avg rating — 3,139 ratings
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A Very Long Engagement
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3.90 avg rating — 7,677 ratings
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
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4.06 avg rating — 6,360 ratings
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The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion
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3.67 avg rating — 28,451 ratings
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They Called It Passchendaele
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4.34 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
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4.31 avg rating — 6,916 ratings
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Her Privates We
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3.99 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
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The Absolutist
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4.10 avg rating — 22,926 ratings
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Journey's End
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3.87 avg rating — 4,548 ratings
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Three Soldiers
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3.55 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
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3.98 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
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3.92 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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Ashenden
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3.86 avg rating — 3,927 ratings
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Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 25,702 ratings
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
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4.19 avg rating — 1,619 ratings
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Fear
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4.19 avg rating — 1,599 ratings
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One of Ours
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3.96 avg rating — 9,857 ratings
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Voyage au bout de la nuit
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4.18 avg rating — 46,953 ratings
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The Alice Network
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4.32 avg rating — 606,001 ratings
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Tommy's Tunnel: My grandad's story and his role in the Battle of Messines Ridge
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4.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Greenmantle
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3.73 avg rating — 5,165 ratings
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Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
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4.03 avg rating — 627 ratings
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The Wars
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3.85 avg rating — 9,823 ratings
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1914: The Days of Hope
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4.21 avg rating — 306 ratings
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The First Casualty
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3.95 avg rating — 6,656 ratings
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Strange Meeting
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3.94 avg rating — 2,408 ratings
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The Daughters of Mars
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3.68 avg rating — 4,631 ratings
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The Roses of No Man's Land
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4.29 avg rating — 459 ratings
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The First World War
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3.85 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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Kingdoms Fall - The Laxenburg Message (Kingdoms Fall, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The First Day on the Somme
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4.31 avg rating — 1,231 ratings
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The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 7,722 ratings
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The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme
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4.33 avg rating — 944 ratings
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A Month in the Country
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4.09 avg rating — 25,522 ratings
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Biggles Learns to Fly
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4.06 avg rating — 989 ratings
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
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4.17 avg rating — 4,602 ratings
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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919
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3.99 avg rating — 1,120 ratings
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Somme
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4.22 avg rating — 724 ratings
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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
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4.18 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
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Against the Day
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4.05 avg rating — 10,105 ratings
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The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War
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3.89 avg rating — 1,016 ratings
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The Road Back
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4.34 avg rating — 9,996 ratings
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Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918
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4.18 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Birds Without Wings
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4.16 avg rating — 16,109 ratings
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War
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4.26 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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The Russian Origins of the First World War
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4.09 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Life Class (Life Class, #1)
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3.62 avg rating — 5,367 ratings
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Under Fire
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3.85 avg rating — 2,304 ratings
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Wilfred Owen
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4.18 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
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3.59 avg rating — 45,644 ratings
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Singled Out
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3.77 avg rating — 896 ratings
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Company K
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4.23 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 348,308 ratings
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Un Anno sull'Altipiano
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4.08 avg rating — 3,366 ratings
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If you notice, this self-published novel is ranked #10. However, upon deeper inspection you will also notice that he is doing quid pro quo reviews and rankings with other self-published authors. For example EVERY single vote he received was a #1 vote (really, not War and Peace?). Also, many of those who voted for his book ONLY voted for his book. Also many who voted for his book ALSO have books they are pimping. So, anyway, take it for what it is.
Here is the list of Roy's "Bad Behaving Author Friends":
1. John Hanley - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
2. Paul Cude - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
3. Dab10 - ranked Comign Home 1 of 1 - author of Karmic Krackers
4. Leonardo Ramirez - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
5. Danielle DeVor - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
6. Dianne Harman - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
7. Melodie Ramone - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
8. Elizabeth Marx - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
9. Karen Prince - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
10. Murielle Cyr - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
11. Janna Yeshanova - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
12. Jams N. Roses - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
13. Shane K.P. O'Neill - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
14. Rhonda Patton/Chester McDaniel - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
So, 14/16 votes are authors. Either Roy is a writer's writer, or this is obviously a way for these self=published authors to try and push up their books. Ugh.
But to be fair to Roy. There were two rating that didn't come from other Goodreads/Self-Published authors. One come from Emma Morris, who has apparently ONLY rated Roy's books (all 5 stars) and has no friends. The other rating comes from a 17 yo Norwegian kid who likes Dan Brown A LOT.