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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 7,520,287 ratings — published 2005
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
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avg rating 3.67 — 2,930,139 ratings — published 2011
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,918,352 ratings — published 2008
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,041,668 ratings — published 2007
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,183,446 ratings — published 2006
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,167,183 ratings — published 2013
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
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avg rating 3.47 — 1,173,585 ratings — published 2016
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,989,294 ratings — published 2002
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,017,484 ratings — published 1951
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,217,684 ratings — published 2007
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,493,366 ratings — published 2011
Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)
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avg rating 3.82 — 990,539 ratings — published 2011
Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
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avg rating 3.83 — 931,718 ratings — published 2012
Marked (House of Night, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 529,462 ratings — published 2007
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,819,763 ratings — published 2012
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,160 ratings — published 2007
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,840,684 ratings — published 2016
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,657,616 ratings — published 2012
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,323,442 ratings — published 2011
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 712,885 ratings — published 2011
Evermore (The Immortals, #1)
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avg rating 3.60 — 300,450 ratings — published 2009
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,609,607 ratings — published 2015
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,706,688 ratings — published 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,132,028 ratings — published 1960
Matched (Matched, #1)
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avg rating 3.62 — 821,797 ratings — published 2010
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,880,912 ratings — published 2010
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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avg rating 3.76 — 500,490 ratings — published 2009
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
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avg rating 3.53 — 289,946 ratings — published 2020
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,876,668 ratings — published 2018
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,761,255 ratings — published 1988
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,820,335 ratings — published
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,788,358 ratings — published 2005
The One (The Selection, #3)
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avg rating 4.14 — 801,287 ratings — published 2014
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,889,544 ratings — published 2012
The Elite (The Selection, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 898,156 ratings — published 2013
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,340,822 ratings — published 2009
Crossed (Matched, #2)
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avg rating 3.52 — 262,345 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,997,274 ratings — published 1963
Fallen (Fallen, #1)
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avg rating 3.72 — 625,676 ratings — published 2009
The Secret (The Secret, #1)
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avg rating 3.74 — 548,798 ratings — published 2006
Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)
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avg rating 3.71 — 1,398,195 ratings — published 2022
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 624,263 ratings — published 2018
From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)
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avg rating 4.21 — 908,671 ratings — published 2020
Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 354,466 ratings — published 2019
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,998,749 ratings — published 2013
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 644,451 ratings — published 2015
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,893,758 ratings — published 1590
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,151,297 ratings — published 1925
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (The Twilight Saga, #3.5)
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avg rating 3.52 — 249,143 ratings — published 2009
Blue Moon (The Immortals, #2)
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avg rating 3.61 — 100,613 ratings — published 2009
“One learns most clearly what not to do by reading bad prose---one novel like Asteroid Miners (or Valley of the Dolls, Flowers in the Attic, and The Bridges of Madison County, to name just a few) is worth a semester at a good writing school, even with the superstar guest lecturers thrown in.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“We are lucky to die without having read some books, and without having heard some songs.”
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