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The books you'd recommend to someone if he or she needed an escape into something light or funny. They don't need to have strict happy endings--but a Thomas Hardy-style, dump-truck-full-of-tragedy-ending probably doesn't belong on this list.
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Pride and Prejudice
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Can You Keep a Secret?
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Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author)
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
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Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 798,955 ratings
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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Helen Fielding (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,016,113 ratings
score: 796,
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 1,089,452 ratings
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A Tinfoil Hat of My Own: A Tale of Friendship, Bikers, and Werewolves
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Echo Shea (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 599,
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Call Me Irresistible (Wynette, Texas, #6)
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 25,662 ratings
score: 596,
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Emma
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4.05 avg rating — 959,380 ratings
score: 584,
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And One Last Thing ...
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Molly Harper (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 8,149 ratings
score: 584,
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6 people voted
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Lucky Go Happy: Make Happiness Happen!
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Paul Van Der Merwe (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 500,
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Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You?
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 196 ratings
score: 489,
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Calico Jack in your Garden
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 218 ratings
score: 488,
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The Blue Castle
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4.31 avg rating — 53,679 ratings
score: 486,
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Dogshit Saved My Life
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 483,
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5 people voted
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Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4)
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Penny Reid (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 27,419 ratings
score: 478,
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Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 297 ratings
score: 392,
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An A - Z of Looney Limericks
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Bernie Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 391,
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I Capture the Castle
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3.99 avg rating — 113,880 ratings
score: 386,
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The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 261,357 ratings
score: 376,
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Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 88,194 ratings
score: 291,
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The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 22,311 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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4.19 avg rating — 798,476 ratings
score: 286,
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Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)
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4.18 avg rating — 19,280 ratings
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Every Boy's Got One (Boy, #3)
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 24,762 ratings
score: 283,
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Lucy in the Sky
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Paige Toon (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 10,885 ratings
score: 276,
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
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3.98 avg rating — 18,296 ratings
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Hocus Pocus
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Teresa Roblin (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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The Dalai Lama's Cat (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #1)
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David Michie (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 15,882 ratings
score: 196,
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The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf (Naked Werewolf, #2)
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Molly Harper (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 10,221 ratings
score: 194,
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Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (Jane Jameson, #1)
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Molly Harper (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 27,018 ratings
score: 194,
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Nobody Asked Me, But ....
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 194,
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Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)
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4.30 avg rating — 13,509 ratings
score: 192,
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Mike and Psmith (Psmith, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
score: 189,
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Streaking for Mother
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Mark Shearman (Goodreads Author)
4.69 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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Tropical Kiss
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Jan Coffey (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,168 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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The Great Escape (Wynette, Texas, #7)
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 15,180 ratings
score: 187,
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Save a Truck, Ride a Redneck (Southern Eclectic, #0.5)
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Molly Harper (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
score: 184,
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Sweet Tea and Sympathy (Southern Eclectic, #1)
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Molly Harper (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 8,555 ratings
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Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 92,717 ratings
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Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #8)
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4.24 avg rating — 55,604 ratings
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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3.45 avg rating — 36,460 ratings
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Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)
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Penny Reid (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 33,123 ratings
score: 174,
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
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3.97 avg rating — 16,610 ratings
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Silks and Sins
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Clare O'Beara (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Love Story That Shouldn't Have Been
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3.90 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Dear Titus,
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 62,353 ratings
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No Number Nine
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F.J. Campbell (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 115 ratings
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I Woke Up in Love This Morning
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Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 77 ratings
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40 Days With God in the Garden
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Now You See It...
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Teresa Roblin (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 99,
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The Love Story That Shouldn't Have Been
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Melissa Grijalva (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Art of Purring (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #2)
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David Michie (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
score: 99,
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Streaking For Mother
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Mark Shearman (Goodreads Author)
4.69 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 99,
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Swordheart (Swordheart, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 35,857 ratings
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Alfie the Doorstep Cat (Alfie, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 3,123 ratings
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Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 45,251 ratings
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Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1)
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Francesca Lia Block (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 14,995 ratings
score: 97,
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The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Power of Meow (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #3)
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David Michie (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 2,705 ratings
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The 13 Clocks
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3.99 avg rating — 8,463 ratings
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Henry the Queen’s Corgi
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4.13 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)
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Olivia Dade (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 50,966 ratings
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Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
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4.25 avg rating — 26,929 ratings
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Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
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Lizzie Skurnick (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
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The Dalai Lama's Cat Awaken the Kitten Within (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #5)
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David Michie (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 838 ratings
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The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
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4.20 avg rating — 29,786 ratings
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On the Road
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My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 45,961 ratings
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Gunpowder Soup
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Ferien auf Saltkrokan
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4.36 avg rating — 6,176 ratings
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Psmith in the City (Psmith, #2)
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My Bluegrass Baby (Bluegrass, #1)
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Molly Harper (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 3,015 ratings
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I Want Candy (Bigler, North Carolina #2)
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Susan Donovan (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 1,715 ratings
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Her Favorite Rival (Mathews Sisters, #2)
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Sarah Mayberry (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 705 ratings
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Rhythm and Bluegrass (Bluegrass, #2)
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Molly Harper (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
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Snow Falling on Bluegrass (Bluegrass, #3)
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Molly Harper (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
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