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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 333,126 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,804,379 ratings — published 1996
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 213,857 ratings — published 2008
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 231,877 ratings — published 2007
Best Served Cold (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 117,914 ratings — published 2009
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 867,854 ratings — published 2000
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,046,947 ratings — published 1998
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 126,195 ratings — published 2011
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
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avg rating 4.34 — 753,520 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,967,912 ratings — published 1963
Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,158 ratings — published 2015
Red Country (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 69,608 ratings — published 2012
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
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avg rating 4.18 — 809,948 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,142,567 ratings — published 1932
The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 178,861 ratings — published 2008
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 52,416 ratings — published 2021
A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 65,532 ratings — published 2019
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 541,912 ratings — published 2018
The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 56,349 ratings — published 1984
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 24,522 ratings — published 2003
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,228,767 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,309,162 ratings — published 2009
Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as grim)
avg rating 4.28 — 87,633 ratings — published 2000
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 143,612 ratings — published 1999
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 81,931 ratings — published 2025
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 231,076 ratings — published 2020
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 95,296 ratings — published 2012
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 464,644 ratings — published 2017
The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)
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avg rating 4.59 — 44,191 ratings — published 2021
The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
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avg rating 4.60 — 49,479 ratings — published 2020
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 77,033 ratings — published 2014
The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)
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avg rating 3.74 — 18,661 ratings — published 2008
The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing, #3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,482 ratings — published 2006
The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)
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avg rating 4.00 — 16,169 ratings — published 2004
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,299,936 ratings — published 1954
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 114,827 ratings — published 1984
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,542,259 ratings — published 1985
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 728,100 ratings — published 1983
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,965,519 ratings — published 2005
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 4,385 ratings — published 1997
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 50,585 ratings — published 1939
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.53 — 109,883 ratings — published 2022
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 61,967 ratings — published 1967
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 35,986 ratings — published 1973
Gunmetal Gods (Gunmetal Gods, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 4,006 ratings — published 2020
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 241,640 ratings — published 1985
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 195,512 ratings — published 2019
“Thyme, or 'dawn in paradise,'
I go there with the dead.
They die by someone else's hand
Whose souls sleep in my bed.”
― The Marsh Queen
I go there with the dead.
They die by someone else's hand
Whose souls sleep in my bed.”
― The Marsh Queen
“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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