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The King James Bible
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4.44 avg rating — 311,217 ratings
score: 200,
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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4.19 avg rating — 243,910 ratings
score: 190,
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,783,199 ratings
score: 186,
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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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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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3.92 avg rating — 278,426 ratings
score: 99,
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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 Pilgrim's Progress
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4.07 avg rating — 155,528 ratings
score: 98,
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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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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,411,304 ratings
score: 97,
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 705,566 ratings
score: 97,
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The Wrath of Truth (The Wages of Sin, #2)
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4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 97,
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The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 329,383 ratings
score: 96,
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The House on the Strand
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3.83 avg rating — 14,394 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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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,619,720 ratings
score: 95,
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,248,359 ratings
score: 95,
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,336,292 ratings
score: 94,
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All the Bright Places
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Jennifer Niven (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 619,448 ratings
score: 93,
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,781,483 ratings
score: 92,
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,106,577 ratings
score: 90,
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House Rules
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 185,804 ratings
score: 89,
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I Capture the Castle
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3.99 avg rating — 113,843 ratings
score: 87,
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Sarah's Key
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Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 491,512 ratings
score: 86,
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 1,956,933 ratings
score: 85,
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January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
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Michael Schofield (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 8,857 ratings
score: 84,
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