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Any work of fiction in which the protagonist or a key character has evil parents, guardians, or any sort of wicked parental figure!
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,277,543 ratings
score: 795,
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Matilda
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4.33 avg rating — 1,085,241 ratings
score: 597,
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6 people voted
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 233,906 ratings
score: 496,
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5 people voted
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Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)
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4.73 avg rating — 300,579 ratings
score: 493,
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,027,641 ratings
score: 291,
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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3.86 avg rating — 87,767 ratings
score: 285,
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
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4.23 avg rating — 219,793 ratings
score: 199,
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,336,305 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Fire (Graceling Realm, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 193,007 ratings
score: 197,
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No, David!
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4.16 avg rating — 62,713 ratings
score: 197,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 862,122 ratings
score: 196,
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,139,689 ratings
score: 184,
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2 people voted
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Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)
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Kami Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 618,186 ratings
score: 181,
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I, Coriander
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3.83 avg rating — 8,326 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Enter the Uncreated Night
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Christopher Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 202 ratings
score: 100,
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Three Maids for a Crown
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Ella March Chase (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,852 ratings
score: 100,
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The Dawn of Evil (The Wages of Sin, #5)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Birth of Death (The Wages of Sin, #4)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 99,
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The Fall of Innocence (The Wages of Sin, #3)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 98,
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Count Karlstein
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3.52 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)
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Carrie Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 87,159 ratings
score: 97,
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The Seinfeld Scripts: The First and Second Seasons
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4.27 avg rating — 315 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Wrath of Truth (The Wages of Sin, #2)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 97,
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Written on Your Skin
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Meredith Duran (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 2,506 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Pinballs
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3.86 avg rating — 3,345 ratings
score: 96,
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The Devil's Advocate (The Wages of Sin, #1)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single Mom
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3.94 avg rating — 228 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Birth of the Firebringer (Firebringer, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 3,372 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Egyptian Cinderella
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3.93 avg rating — 2,099 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Storm Born (Dark Swan, #1)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 33,064 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Cinderella
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4.30 avg rating — 9,144 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 62,274 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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The Little Match Girl
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4.10 avg rating — 28,381 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Leaving the World
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Douglas Kennedy (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 3,999 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 405,738 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 30,066 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Cinderella
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Marcia Brown (Retold by, Illustrator)
3.93 avg rating — 2,429 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 291,703 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Fortune's Rocks (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 31,862 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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King Lear
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Gareth Hinds (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 2,942 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
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4.26 avg rating — 13,442 ratings
score: 87,
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The Devil Within, Volume 1
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3.56 avg rating — 218 ratings
score: 86,
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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4.03 avg rating — 158,593 ratings
score: 86,
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Erm, Jane Eyre's parents weren't evil. They were dead. It was the aunt and cousins who were evil. Even the uncle was good.
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