3.62 avg rating — 4,686 ratings

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"A young girl escapes her home/work as a clone/slave."

3.26 avg rating — 29,765 ratings

"Both the family father and mother fail to return from their travels."

3.83 avg rating — 16,972 ratings

"The parents of two girls have died and the girls decide to cover up their deaths and say they've gone away (that's not a spoiler, it's the premise)"

3.78 avg rating — 235,954 ratings

"A prince has been lost at sea."

3.54 avg rating — 13,696 ratings

4.06 avg rating — 1,876 ratings

"A book about the human face of displacement, including shocking scenes of unidentified refugees drowned at sea."

3.83 avg rating — 629,781 ratings

3.60 avg rating — 126,017 ratings

"One of the characters goes missing and is presumed dead... but there's something more to the story."

3.92 avg rating — 1,050,196 ratings

"Tom Sawyer gallivants about and people at home assume he's died."

3.88 avg rating — 2,461 ratings

4.12 avg rating — 69,904 ratings

3.87 avg rating — 277 ratings

"A woman runs away after a miscarriage and abducts a child."

3.97 avg rating — 3,016,625 ratings

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3.55 avg rating — 138,326 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 146,425 ratings

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"The protagonist runs away from home to join a cult"

4.30 avg rating — 601,151 ratings

"Maya Angelou briefly describes having run away from home and being homeless"

3.97 avg rating — 1,863 ratings

"One short story in the collection depicts a world where children routinely get abducted. A mother tries to get her children back."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 39 ratings

3.97 avg rating — 1,123 ratings

4.23 avg rating — 52,442 ratings

"A baby goes missing after its mixed up with a manuscript."

4.21 avg rating — 24,453 ratings

3.87 avg rating — 612,618 ratings

3.20 avg rating — 970 ratings

it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating

3.41 avg rating — 5,850 ratings

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2.95 avg rating — 1,007 ratings

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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 211,392 ratings

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"Tsukuru Tazaki's friend mysteriously vanishes and he thinks it could be his fault but he isn't sure."

4.15 avg rating — 3,576,952 ratings

3.96 avg rating — 199,193 ratings

"Twins get lost at sea."

3.87 avg rating — 985,239 ratings

"Lolita is abducted/runs away from the protagonist."

4.04 avg rating — 1,332,033 ratings

"Esther is missing for several days following a suicide attempt."

3.89 avg rating — 1,640,394 ratings

3.94 avg rating — 596,486 ratings

3.86 avg rating — 2,493,450 ratings

4.21 avg rating — 5,815,498 ratings

3.80 avg rating — 4,031,886 ratings

4.16 avg rating — 2,430,891 ratings

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3.86 avg rating — 1,299,380 ratings

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3.80 avg rating — 45 ratings

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

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3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings

4.24 avg rating — 3,242,456 ratings

3.71 avg rating — 2,081 ratings

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3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings

4.10 avg rating — 13,752 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings