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The Long Ships
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4.27 avg rating — 13,024 ratings
"Perhaps my favorite historical novel ever, I placed then one so high because it's a lot of fun. Also my kid's maternal side of the family has Danish roots, so I thought they should read it. "
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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4.26 avg rating — 24,118 ratings
"Not an easy book to read, but perhaps the greatest most thought provoking novel I've ever read. By the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" but I think this is Kesey's best work."
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,632 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.84 avg rating — 1,214,185 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 902,044 ratings
"A truly moving memoir about love, suffering, forgiveness and how to make one's live have purpose. My wife suggested this one to me early on in our relationship."
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The Power of Positive Thinking
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4.14 avg rating — 128,368 ratings
"My father's favorite book, he said it had profoundly influenced his life. When I first started dating my wife, I discovered it was a favorite of hers as well."
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 44,682 ratings
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Mirror to America
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4.22 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
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4.36 avg rating — 10,093 ratings
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 170,557 ratings
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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
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4.18 avg rating — 4,526 ratings
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Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6)
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4.14 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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3.89 avg rating — 280,617 ratings
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 367,187 ratings
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Holy Bible: The New King James Version
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4.42 avg rating — 8,215 ratings
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The Wordy Shipmates
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3.68 avg rating — 24,151 ratings
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
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4.45 avg rating — 673 ratings
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Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)
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4.31 avg rating — 13,896 ratings
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Mythology
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4.04 avg rating — 60,520 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.30 avg rating — 4,888,402 ratings
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A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories
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4.15 avg rating — 8,045 ratings
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The Martian Chronicles
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4.16 avg rating — 288,953 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,898,165 ratings
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I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
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3.75 avg rating — 4,086 ratings
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Skinny Dip (Skink, #5; Mick Stranahan #2)
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3.85 avg rating — 48,595 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 — 9,810 ratings
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The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph
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3.84 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Jack Vance Treasury
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4.18 avg rating — 623 ratings
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The Pearl
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3.57 avg rating — 278,134 ratings
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Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 9,481 ratings
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 61,619 ratings
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The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72
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4.44 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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3.83 avg rating — 12,960 ratings
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Joy in the Morning
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3.94 avg rating — 9,137 ratings
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The Persian Expedition
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4.11 avg rating — 10,073 ratings
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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
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4.12 avg rating — 98,329 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,521,342 ratings
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I, Robot
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4.21 avg rating — 383,577 ratings
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Ahead of Time
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3.66 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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4.40 avg rating — 34,407 ratings
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With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 8,777 ratings
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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4.43 avg rating — 1,077 ratings
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The Green Odyssey
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3.53 avg rating — 734 ratings
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The Mabinogion Tetralogy
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4.22 avg rating — 1,248 ratings
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Ill Met in Lankhmar (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1-2)
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4.15 avg rating — 3,008 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 103,252 ratings
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Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances
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3.86 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 30,678 ratings
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Shaft
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3.50 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Death Be Not Proud
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3.86 avg rating — 12,978 ratings
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Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football
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4.32 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
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4.19 avg rating — 585 ratings
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The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman – The Engrossing Popular History of the Roman Empire, Han Dynasty, and Jesus's Era
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3.98 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s
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4.37 avg rating — 891 ratings
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
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4.38 avg rating — 493 ratings
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American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956: The Space Merchants / More Than Human / The Long Tomorrow / The Shrinking Man
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3.95 avg rating — 130 ratings
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American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956–1958: Double Star / The Stars My Destination / A Case of Conscience / Who? / The Big Time
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4.03 avg rating — 109 ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small #1-2)
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4.36 avg rating — 160,230 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 568,265 ratings
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American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 996,198 ratings
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The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy
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4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Apache Devil
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3.82 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,159 ratings
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The Godfather
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4.40 avg rating — 469,864 ratings
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Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
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4.34 avg rating — 239,544 ratings
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Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)
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4.26 avg rating — 99,159 ratings
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Jack of Shadows
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3.97 avg rating — 7,469 ratings
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The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum
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4.07 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Black Coach
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant
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4.24 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 109,151 ratings
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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
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3.83 avg rating — 6,995 ratings
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The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
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4.20 avg rating — 30,876 ratings
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Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry & Tales
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4.38 avg rating — 1,901 ratings
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Three Theban Plays
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Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
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4.18 avg rating — 9,830 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.05 avg rating — 262,061 ratings
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Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer
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4.23 avg rating — 2,581 ratings
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Death Angel's Shadow
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4.25 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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Of Men and Monsters
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3.77 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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