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Dusk (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,094 ratings — published 2024
Juice (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 8,247 ratings — published 2024
One Life: My Mother's Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,086 ratings — published 2015
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 531,419 ratings — published 2021
Police (Harry Hole, #10)
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avg rating 4.24 — 51,235 ratings — published 2013
The Jungle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 158,759 ratings — published 1906
Whisky from Small Glasses (DCI Daley, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,673 ratings — published 2012
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 69,824 ratings — published 2000
The First Stone (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 970 ratings — published 2003
How It Went Down (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.95 — 7,697 ratings — published 2014
This Is Where It Ends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 157,504 ratings — published 2016
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 49,285 ratings — published 2013
The Princess' Blankets (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 234 ratings — published 2008
This Is Not a Test: The Definitive Edition with Please Remain Calm (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 16,433 ratings — published 2012
Genie: A Scientific Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,161 ratings — published 1993
Time of the Locust (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 185 ratings — published 2014
The Shrine at Altamira (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 222 ratings — published 1992
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 14,362 ratings — published 2003
Caged Warrior (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 650 ratings — published 2014
Still Waters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 643 ratings — published 2015
Revolver (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 5,453 ratings — published 2009
Paco's Story (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,025 ratings — published 1986
The Plague (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 337,154 ratings — published 1947
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,855,691 ratings — published 1945
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,551,930 ratings — published 1942
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 765,642 ratings — published 1952
Rushing to Paradise (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.35 — 955 ratings — published 1994
The Unnamed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 9,117 ratings — published 2010
Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 30,446 ratings — published 2010
Weep Not Child (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 4,571 ratings — published 1964
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,333,124 ratings — published 1963
Rücken an Rücken (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 211 ratings — published 2011
Black Boy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 56,920 ratings — published 1945
Palo Alto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.97 — 12,596 ratings — published 2009
Boot Camp (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 6,135 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,410,923 ratings — published 2012
The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)
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avg rating 3.91 — 32,227 ratings — published 2010
The Third Life Of Grange Copeland (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,740 ratings — published 1970
The Sea of Tranquility (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.28 — 89,303 ratings — published 2012
Exegesis (Vintage Contemporaries)
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avg rating 3.58 — 504 ratings — published 1997
Jacob Have I Loved (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 36,611 ratings — published 1980
We Were Liars (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 1,494,613 ratings — published 2014
The Walled City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 7,457 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,835,138 ratings — published 2007
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 297,315 ratings — published 1971
Keeper (Paul Faustino, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,312 ratings — published 2003
“For the first time in my life, I had begun to feel that kind of slow desolation that rises, little by little, slowly, slowly every day, that one hardly knows it is there. Until that one day when all those small deaths accrue into a kind of leaden weight one feels in the legs and the arms. One cannot move from all that pain that manifests itself as an all-encompassing lack of feeling. That is how strong the pain really is. It cannot admit its own hurt to itself. For once, I would have gladly died in that bed smelling of shit, my hair shaved, my heart no longer a muscle but a kind of extraneous organ not part of myself but beating in spite of myself. It was then that I knew that spite was not a thing to take against a captor, but that spite was a thing to hold against one's self. For I did not want to be alive. Life, and my daily affirmation of it, was not something I wanted, as time went by.”
― Assembling Alice
― Assembling Alice
“They had chopped wood here too; then they were gone. Gone to the fields, the small towns, the cities – where they died. There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or who had been sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball, stabbed to death in a nightclub in Port Allen; Claudee, killed by a woman in New Orleans; Smitty, sent to the state penitentiary for manslaughter. And there were others who did not go anywhere but simply died slower”
― A Lesson Before Dying
― A Lesson Before Dying