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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 338,446 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,822,213 ratings — published 1996
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 217,305 ratings — published 2008
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 235,644 ratings — published 2007
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 873,003 ratings — published 2000
Best Served Cold (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 119,517 ratings — published 2009
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,053,821 ratings — published 1998
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
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avg rating 4.35 — 757,347 ratings — published 2011
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 126,808 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,000,511 ratings — published 1963
Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,202 ratings — published 2015
Red Country (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 70,656 ratings — published 2012
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
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avg rating 4.18 — 814,660 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,159,017 ratings — published 1932
A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 66,762 ratings — published 2019
The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 179,372 ratings — published 2008
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 54,765 ratings — published 2021
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 554,575 ratings — published 2018
The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 56,757 ratings — published 1984
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 24,778 ratings — published 2003
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,300,686 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,344,915 ratings — published 2009
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 88,919 ratings — published 2025
Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
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avg rating 4.28 — 88,449 ratings — published 2000
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 482,509 ratings — published 2017
The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)
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avg rating 4.59 — 45,190 ratings — published 2021
The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
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avg rating 4.60 — 50,552 ratings — published 2020
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 145,033 ratings — published 1999
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 233,173 ratings — published 2020
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 106,865 ratings — published 2012
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 247,276 ratings — published 1985
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 77,649 ratings — published 2014
The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)
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avg rating 3.74 — 18,748 ratings — published 2008
The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing, #3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,601 ratings — published 2006
The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)
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avg rating 4.00 — 16,304 ratings — published 2004
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 769,516 ratings — published 1938
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,322,817 ratings — published 1954
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 115,732 ratings — published 1984
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,569,169 ratings — published 1985
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 736,069 ratings — published 1983
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,984,886 ratings — published 2005
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,440 ratings — published 1997
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 51,056 ratings — published 1939
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.53 — 112,400 ratings — published 2022
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 63,625 ratings — published 1967
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 36,273 ratings — published 1973
Gunmetal Gods (Gunmetal Gods, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 4,081 ratings — published 2020
“Shadow initially seemed unaffected when I placed the thing around his neck. He has worn collars before, both the ordinary and faerie-made variety. But as we walked, his lumbering gait grew more graceful, and he paused frequently to sniff at things.
"What does it do?" Rose enquired.
"It's hobgoblin-made," I said. "They sometimes keep grims as guard dogs. The legend associated with it suggests that it will enhance Shadow's speed and senses.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
"What does it do?" Rose enquired.
"It's hobgoblin-made," I said. "They sometimes keep grims as guard dogs. The legend associated with it suggests that it will enhance Shadow's speed and senses.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")”
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