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Books that it would be either difficult, unlikely, or impossible to picture as having a film version. This can be due to amount of explicit content, the author banning a film from being made, lack of story or possible storylines, obscurity, or it just would suck as a movie. It's your call. The book can be good, bad, or too strange for description.
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,825,048 ratings
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The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 643,602 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Deception Point
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 693,739 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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A Story of Yesterday
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4.53 avg rating — 17,452 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,459,658 ratings
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The Voynich Manuscript
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4.28 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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The Sheep Look Up
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3.91 avg rating — 5,613 ratings
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Salammbô
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Philippe Druillet (Adaptor, Illustrator)
4.07 avg rating — 186 ratings
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1 person voted
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My First Thirty Years
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3.68 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Earthlings
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3.60 avg rating — 94,200 ratings
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241 Real-World Brain Teasers.: Guided problem-solving in Inventions, Nature, Uncommon Trivia, and Business Innovation.
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4.26 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 177,959 ratings
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The Complete Maus
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4.58 avg rating — 247,904 ratings
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The Gollywhopper Games (Gollywhopper Games, 1)
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Jody Feldman (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 4,146 ratings
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Black No More
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The Godwhale (The Hive, #2)
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3.76 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet
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4.13 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Lost Girls
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 6,067 ratings
score: 99,
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Crown of Starlight
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1.67 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Splinterlands (Dispatch Books)
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John Feffer (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 542 ratings
score: 98,
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The Way Things Really Work:
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3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Target Acquired (DCYE, #6)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 98,
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Imaginations (The Last City of Men #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
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Yragaël and Urm the Mad
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3.98 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Digital Fortress
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 659,660 ratings
score: 97,
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Dangerous Games (DCYE, #4)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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3.84 avg rating — 10,902 ratings
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Athens Potluck
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 96,
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The Power of Five Boxed Set, #1-5 (The Power of Five, #1-5)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 274 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Complicated Moonlight (DCYE, #2)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 310 ratings
score: 96,
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The Marrow Thieves
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3.94 avg rating — 42,523 ratings
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The Bitter Southerner Reader, Vol. 1
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Chuck Reece (Editor)
4.40 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Portal 2: Lab Rat
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4.25 avg rating — 658 ratings
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Don't Close Your Eyes (DCYE, #1)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 608 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Before She Sleeps
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Bina Shah (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 1,821 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Unquotable Trump
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4.16 avg rating — 196 ratings
score: 94,
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A Lesson Before Dying
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3.98 avg rating — 63,332 ratings
score: 94,
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The Memoirs of a Survivor
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3.58 avg rating — 3,539 ratings
score: 93,
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Holy Terror
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1.99 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
score: 93,
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Rodham
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Curtis Sittenfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 48,805 ratings
score: 93,
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Beyond Apollo
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3.60 avg rating — 704 ratings
score: 92,
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Antigua: The Land of Fairies, Wizards and Heroes
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1.60 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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3.91 avg rating — 44,999 ratings
score: 91,
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Catalyst
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 17,839 ratings
score: 91,
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Motorman
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4.08 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
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Maradonia and the Seven Bridges (Maradonia #1)
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Gloria Tesch (Goodreads Author)
1.86 avg rating — 120 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Michael Jackson Was My Lover: The Secret Diary Of Jordie Chandler
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2.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
score: 89,
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 290,935 ratings
score: 88,
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Shift
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3.75 avg rating — 2,932 ratings
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Marville Volume 1 TPB
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1.42 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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3.92 avg rating — 240,377 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Children
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4.13 avg rating — 3,368 ratings
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Mein Kampf
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3.17 avg rating — 43,315 ratings
score: 82,
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Double Identity
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4.01 avg rating — 16,932 ratings
score: 80,
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Raven's Gate (The Power of Five, #1)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 28,574 ratings
score: 79,
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Nightrise (Power of Five, #3)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 15,578 ratings
score: 78,
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Evil Star (Power of Five, #2)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 19,227 ratings
score: 77,
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Necropolis (The Power of Five, #4)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 13,338 ratings
score: 76,
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Oblivion (The Power of Five #5)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 8,423 ratings
score: 75,
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Cure for the Common Universe
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3.38 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
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17 voters ·
list created April 22nd, 2019
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