3.63 avg rating — 3,985 ratings

3.70 avg rating — 1,489,564 ratings

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

3.26 avg rating — 28,619 ratings

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

3.83 avg rating — 16,810 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 — 227,088 ratings

"A prince has been lost at sea."

3.54 avg rating — 13,217 ratings

4.07 avg rating — 1,792 ratings

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

3.83 avg rating — 610,441 ratings

3.60 avg rating — 123,289 ratings

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

3.92 avg rating — 1,017,334 ratings

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

3.88 avg rating — 2,404 ratings

4.12 avg rating — 68,043 ratings

3.88 avg rating — 272 ratings

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

3.97 avg rating — 2,829,099 ratings

3.87 avg rating — 1,473 ratings

3.56 avg rating — 129,106 ratings

4.01 avg rating — 143,398 ratings

4.03 avg rating — 396,717 ratings

3.51 avg rating — 242,889 ratings

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

4.30 avg rating — 580,291 ratings

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

3.97 avg rating — 1,817 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 — 1,093 ratings

4.23 avg rating — 51,874 ratings

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

4.20 avg rating — 22,337 ratings

3.87 avg rating — 598,680 ratings

3.20 avg rating — 966 ratings

it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating

3.41 avg rating — 5,808 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 104,910 ratings

2.96 avg rating — 998 ratings

3.71 avg rating — 72,065 ratings

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3.29 avg rating — 38 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 202,371 ratings

4.07 avg rating — 19,730 ratings

3.57 avg rating — 33,286 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 — 3,440,905 ratings

3.96 avg rating — 194,390 ratings

"Twins get lost at sea."

3.87 avg rating — 943,983 ratings

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

4.05 avg rating — 1,216,835 ratings

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

3.89 avg rating — 1,595,442 ratings

3.94 avg rating — 577,888 ratings

3.86 avg rating — 2,460,784 ratings

4.20 avg rating — 5,445,390 ratings

3.80 avg rating — 3,887,576 ratings

4.16 avg rating — 2,319,270 ratings

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4.03 avg rating — 373,598 ratings

4.29 avg rating — 38,453 ratings

3.83 avg rating — 1,190,192 ratings

3.93 avg rating — 521 ratings

3.88 avg rating — 427,296 ratings

3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings

2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings

4.24 avg rating — 3,148,499 ratings

3.70 avg rating — 1,950 ratings

3.86 avg rating — 112 ratings

3.88 avg rating — 214 ratings

3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings

4.10 avg rating — 13,197 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings