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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,120,594 ratings — published 1960
The Things We Never Say (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 88,510 ratings — published 2026
Outback Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.90 — 59 ratings — published 2025
The Line Between Us (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Pumpkin Pie Book Nook (Maple Falls, #5)
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avg rating 4.07 — 886 ratings — published
The Shipping News (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 155,470 ratings — published 1993
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 385,739 ratings — published 1989
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 889,037 ratings — published 2025
The Janes (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,753 ratings — published
Untimely Deaths: A Time-Traveling Mystery (New Chapel Mysteries Book 1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
The Perfect Sister (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.48 — 3,019 ratings — published
The Wild Beneath (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 4,481 ratings — published 2026
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 342,467 ratings — published 2023
The Inklings Detective Agency (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 483 ratings — published 2026
American Wolf: A Journey of an Avoidant Heart (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 32 ratings — published
Faithful (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,166 ratings — published 2010
This Here Is Love (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 1,217 ratings — published 2025
After the Storm: the Story of Hannah Applegate Benson Stone (Hannah's Legacy, #1)
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avg rating 4.44 — 88 ratings — published
True Grit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 80,415 ratings — published 1968
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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avg rating 4.60 — 286,719 ratings — published 1985
The Help (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 3,096,825 ratings — published 2009
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,792,853 ratings — published 2018
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 259,110 ratings — published 1886
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 18,302 ratings — published 1948
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,123,169 ratings — published 1992
Crow Lake (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 29,656 ratings — published 2002
Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 44 ratings — published
Train Dreams (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 56,863 ratings — published 2002
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 201,572 ratings — published 1929
You Can't Go Home Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 5,474 ratings — published 1940
Sons and Lovers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 56,697 ratings — published 1913
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 511,172 ratings — published 1926
Women in Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 33,919 ratings — published 1920
In Search of Lost Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 14,568 ratings — published 1913
Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,350 ratings — published 1935
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,375,359 ratings — published 1952
Look Homeward, Angel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 16,095 ratings — published 1929
The Heart's Invisible Furies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 230,894 ratings — published 2017
Buckeye (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 164,608 ratings — published 2025
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.84 — 100,468 ratings — published 2019
The Measure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 419,737 ratings — published 2022
Heart the Lover (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 475,864 ratings — published 2025
Ricardo de York (Spanish Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Days at the Torunka Café (Days at the Torunka Café, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,912 ratings — published 2013
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,313,925 ratings — published 1963
Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
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avg rating 3.69 — 91,883 ratings — published 2024
Somebody's Fool (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 8,342 ratings — published 2023
By the Light of the Bluff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 17 ratings — published
The Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 468 ratings — published 1961
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as character-driven-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 127,929 ratings — published 2001
“Spencer, we are two people who are reeling in a mountain of pain that we can't seem to shake. We're searching for answers; that's all.”
― Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance
― Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance
“Stories matter because they allow us to step outside ourselves for a while and see the world through someone else’s eyes — another neighborhood, another time, another set of pressures, fears, loyalties, temptations, or regrets.”
― The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning
― The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning
