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This year I really want to read a book per week. So here is my list of 53 books for 2020.
(I will add a bit more just because who knows, maybe I will even surpass my goal ;)
(I will add a bit more just because who knows, maybe I will even surpass my goal ;)
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,279,152 ratings
score: 191,
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 844,507 ratings
score: 191,
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Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day
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3.28 avg rating — 1,706 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
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L'évangile selon Pilate
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3.98 avg rating — 4,539 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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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 201,861 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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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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3.99 avg rating — 65,043 ratings
score: 97,
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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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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,351,784 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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Kafka on the Shore
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4.12 avg rating — 534,658 ratings
score: 95,
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Norse Mythology
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 339,765 ratings
score: 94,
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.37 avg rating — 218,753 ratings
score: 93,
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 178,025 ratings
score: 90,
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The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 578,409 ratings
score: 89,
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,460,374 ratings
score: 88,
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Steppenwolf
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4.13 avg rating — 209,265 ratings
score: 87,
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The Glass Bead Game
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4.10 avg rating — 41,618 ratings
score: 86,
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Stardust
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 477,631 ratings
score: 85,
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The Danish Girl
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David Ebershoff (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 24,780 ratings
score: 84,
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Paper Towns
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 1,472,290 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,582 ratings
score: 82,
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Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 3,383,159 ratings
score: 81,
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Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
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4.13 avg rating — 55,686 ratings
score: 80,
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 855,537 ratings
score: 79,
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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 — 15,879 ratings
score: 78,
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Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
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3.82 avg rating — 10,131 ratings
score: 77,
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Educated
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Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 1,797,137 ratings
score: 76,
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 851,599 ratings
score: 75,
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 112,071 ratings
score: 74,
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How to Lie with Statistics
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3.84 avg rating — 17,698 ratings
score: 73,
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 93,408 ratings
score: 72,
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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4.49 avg rating — 785,991 ratings
score: 71,
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 27,135 ratings
score: 70,
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 190,071 ratings
score: 69,
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 15,437 ratings
score: 68,
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 168,828 ratings
score: 67,
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.18 avg rating — 30,788 ratings
score: 66,
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
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3.90 avg rating — 47,130 ratings
score: 65,
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Adultery
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 59,776 ratings
score: 64,
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Eleven Minutes
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 188,634 ratings
score: 63,
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Laughable Loves
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3.81 avg rating — 38,098 ratings
score: 62,
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Identity
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3.69 avg rating — 32,511 ratings
score: 61,
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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4.11 avg rating — 530,696 ratings
score: 60,
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The Joke
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4.03 avg rating — 39,749 ratings
score: 59,
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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3.95 avg rating — 53,419 ratings
score: 58,
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El señor Ibrahim y las flores del Corán
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3.84 avg rating — 25,084 ratings
score: 57,
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Razboiul nu are chip de femeie
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4.51 avg rating — 37,903 ratings
score: 56,
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 279,769 ratings
score: 55,
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A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 1,178,588 ratings
score: 54,
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 367,215 ratings
score: 53,
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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4.20 avg rating — 4,106,475 ratings
score: 52,
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Confessions of a Public Speaker
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Scott Berkun (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 5,112 ratings
score: 51,
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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4.34 avg rating — 178,706 ratings
score: 50,
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Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 351,346 ratings
score: 49,
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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
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3.96 avg rating — 7,727 ratings
score: 48,
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 926,653 ratings
score: 47,
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 406,866 ratings
score: 46,
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,040,147 ratings
score: 45,
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 913,708 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 359,439 ratings
score: 43,
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The Course of Love
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Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 48,351 ratings
score: 42,
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Essays In Love
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Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 34,402 ratings
score: 41,
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