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The Historian (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.80 — 281,490 ratings — published 2005
A Simple Plan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 38,765 ratings — published 1993
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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avg rating 4.20 — 771,357 ratings — published 1934
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,040,004 ratings — published 1996
The Crimson Petal and the White (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 45,707 ratings — published 2002
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,462,979 ratings — published 2000
The Ruins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 72,475 ratings — published 2006
City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 29,289 ratings — published 1996
The Golden Gate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 6,736 ratings — published 2005
Marathon Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 21,961 ratings — published 1974
The Big Picture (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,942 ratings — published 1997
The Chain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 178,093 ratings — published 2019
A Week to be Wicked (Spindle Cove, #2)
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avg rating 4.08 — 40,947 ratings — published 2012
Billy Summers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 203,277 ratings — published 2021
The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
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avg rating 4.21 — 225,045 ratings — published 2014
The Fisherman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 52,488 ratings — published 2016
The Foundling (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7,953 ratings — published 1948
The Foreign Correspondent (Night Soldiers, #9)
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avg rating 3.89 — 5,296 ratings — published 2006
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 686,318 ratings — published 1975
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 2,391,248 ratings — published 2015
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
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avg rating 3.97 — 6,984 ratings — published 1963
What the Dead Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 25,361 ratings — published 2007
The Hot Kid (Carl Webster, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5,816 ratings — published 2005
The Black Gang (Bulldog Drummond, #2)
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avg rating 3.81 — 199 ratings — published 1922
The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 31,240 ratings — published 2017
The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)
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avg rating 4.10 — 92,804 ratings — published 2017
The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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avg rating 3.95 — 6,907 ratings — published 1964
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 185,202 ratings — published 1994
The Jugger (Parker, #6)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,105 ratings — published 1965
The Sun Is God (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 884 ratings — published 2014
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
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avg rating 4.26 — 375,135 ratings — published 1926
Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
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avg rating 3.97 — 4,557 ratings — published 1941
The Prone Gunman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,133 ratings — published 1981
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 250,764 ratings — published 2014
Gone Too Long (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 1,536 ratings — published 2019
The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,023 ratings — published 1978
Demon Seed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 18,121 ratings — published 1973
The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)
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avg rating 4.19 — 15,484 ratings — published 2007
The Steam Pig (Kramer and Zondi Mystery #1)
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avg rating 3.50 — 442 ratings — published 1971
Ten Plus One (87th Precinct, #17)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,774 ratings — published 1963
The Four Just Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 1,562 ratings — published 1905
Maigret and the Man on the Bench (Maigret #41)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,116 ratings — published 1953
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 162,808 ratings — published 1970
The Poison Belt (Professor Challenger, #2)
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avg rating 3.48 — 3,813 ratings — published 1913
I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Detective Sean Duffy, #2)
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avg rating 4.07 — 10,547 ratings — published 2013
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 885,932 ratings — published 1974
The Electric Church (Avery Cates, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,298 ratings — published 2007
The Naming of the Dead (Inspector Rebus, #16)
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avg rating 4.03 — 13,559 ratings — published 2006
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 709,511 ratings — published 2011
“Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.”
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“Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.”
― An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
― An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir