The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
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14,979 books — 18,853 voters
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Kiss the Girls by James  Patterson
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120 books — 357 voters
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The Host by Stephenie MeyerThe Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
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1,643 books — 6,777 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Stand by Stephen  KingA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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14,040 books — 11,535 voters

I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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7,471 books — 25,667 voters
Ragtime by E.L. DoctorowA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteThe Chosen by Chaim Potok
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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The Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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480 books — 1,447 voters