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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,385,218 ratings — published 1952
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,022,443 ratings — published 2015
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,815,439 ratings — published 2018
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,831,577 ratings — published 2007
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 35,328 ratings — published 1961
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 377,598 ratings — published 2015
Speak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 646,555 ratings — published 1999
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,417,366 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,349,879 ratings — published 1947
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,329,081 ratings — published 1963
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,109,843 ratings — published 2021
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,229,267 ratings — published 2012
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,377,385 ratings — published 2018
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,428,013 ratings — published 1847
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,409,308 ratings — published 2012
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,033,347 ratings — published 1939
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 41,274 ratings — published 1968
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,026,885 ratings — published 2023
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 428,461 ratings — published 1958
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,936,238 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 921,194 ratings — published 2022
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,669 ratings — published 1978
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,480,362 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 854,755 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 — 641,735 ratings — published 2012
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 182,145 ratings — published 1959
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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avg rating 4.36 — 22,036 ratings — published 2014
American Dirt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 730,650 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 — 30,086 ratings — published 1971
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 291,044 ratings — published 2016
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 33,703 ratings — published 1987
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 703,586 ratings — published 2017
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 146,639 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,634 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 — 37,880 ratings — published 2015
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 462,462 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 118,992 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,579,783 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 — 373,174 ratings — published 2013
Little Bee (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 251,040 ratings — published 2008
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,904,560 ratings — published 2012
Still Alice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 367,487 ratings — published 2007
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,039,408 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,992,566 ratings — published 2005
Open (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 157,053 ratings — published 2009
Knightley Academy (Knightley Academy, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,174 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 947,540 ratings — published 1946
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 868,552 ratings — published 1862
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 600,730 ratings — published 1969
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,150,074 ratings — published 1997
“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― An Enemy of the People
― An Enemy of the People
“You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.”
― The Flinch
― The Flinch
