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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,373,658 ratings — published 1952
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,007,791 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,816,030 ratings — published 2007
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 34,902 ratings — published 1961
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,788,995 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 375,946 ratings — published 2015
Speak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 644,274 ratings — published 1999
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,409,169 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,326,459 ratings — published 1947
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,311,422 ratings — published 1963
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,091,047 ratings — published 2021
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,224,535 ratings — published 2012
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,347,832 ratings — published 2018
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,411,075 ratings — published 1847
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,401,594 ratings — published 1956
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,026,522 ratings — published 1939
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 40,978 ratings — published 1968
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,945,719 ratings — published 2023
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 425,869 ratings — published 1958
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,882,757 ratings — published 2023
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,370 ratings — published 1978
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,422,280 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 846,134 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 638,818 ratings — published 2012
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 179,409 ratings — published 1959
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 21,789 ratings — published 2014
American Dirt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 723,761 ratings — published 2020
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 29,709 ratings — published 1971
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 287,764 ratings — published 2016
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 33,422 ratings — published 1987
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 689,633 ratings — published 2017
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 145,762 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,410 ratings — published 2017
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 37,604 ratings — published 2015
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 459,187 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 118,271 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,556,256 ratings — published 1985
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 371,301 ratings — published 2013
Little Bee (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 250,643 ratings — published 2008
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,877,984 ratings — published 2012
Still Alice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 366,399 ratings — published 2007
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,037,277 ratings — published 2007
Open (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.33 — 155,161 ratings — published 2009
Knightley Academy (Knightley Academy, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,175 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 936,341 ratings — published 1946
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 864,815 ratings — published 1862
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 597,674 ratings — published 1969
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,144,191 ratings — published 1997
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 720,096 ratings — published 1952
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 812,495 ratings — published 1998
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn't mean anything, nothing had form but I was still me, you know? And I was warm and I was loved and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or any of it, really but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out by my friends. Everything here is hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch this is hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that knowing what I've lost...”
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