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Best Books From Reading Challenges Past and Present
The biggest favorite reads from Goodreads Reading Challenges over the years up to present day
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 531,737 ratings
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 4,052,013 ratings
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I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
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4.36 avg rating — 59,857 ratings
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Shutter Island
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 218,903 ratings
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Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind, #3)
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3.91 avg rating — 108,672 ratings
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Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
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4.31 avg rating — 8,808 ratings
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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
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K. Ritz (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 27,825 ratings
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Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)
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4.33 avg rating — 91,532 ratings
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Just After Sunset
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 59,633 ratings
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Coraline
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 765,453 ratings
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Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
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Susan Rowland (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 17,052 ratings
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Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
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4.34 avg rating — 230,820 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,275,374 ratings
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,445,606 ratings
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 3,629,488 ratings
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Black House (The Talisman, #2)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 67,912 ratings
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V.
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3.97 avg rating — 24,904 ratings
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 7,169,999 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 4,384,195 ratings
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Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles, #10)
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3.74 avg rating — 25,902 ratings
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 378,137 ratings
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A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: a story of love, lies, fear and kindness
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Elizabeth Tebby Germaine (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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Looking for Alaska
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,724,524 ratings
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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4.24 avg rating — 1,961,845 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 4,717,997 ratings
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Diary
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 80,565 ratings
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Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
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4.06 avg rating — 85,544 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,824,861 ratings
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,820,981 ratings
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New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
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3.61 avg rating — 2,090,632 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,718,010 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,103,324 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,616,699 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,674,466 ratings
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The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 118,711 ratings
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The Night Circus
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Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,075,729 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 562,124 ratings
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Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
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3.75 avg rating — 1,843,067 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,042,505 ratings
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Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind, #8)
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4.01 avg rating — 58,168 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,374,126 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,100,365 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 500,938 ratings
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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face:
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Todor Bombov (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 7,188 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,267,929 ratings
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Digging for God
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Tom Hillman (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 5,773 ratings
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,342,250 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,341,786 ratings
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Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 232,459 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,323,810 ratings
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Homecoming Queen
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Chad Boudreaux (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,082,911 ratings
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Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)
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Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 483,904 ratings
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 3,075,720 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,736,634 ratings
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No Country for Old Men
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4.17 avg rating — 237,079 ratings
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 454,856 ratings
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A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 79,131 ratings
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 939,781 ratings
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Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
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Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,911,574 ratings
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A Walk to Remember
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 839,848 ratings
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Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)
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Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 408,422 ratings
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One Day
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3.87 avg rating — 402,748 ratings
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,400,375 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,409,740 ratings
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Big Little Lies
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Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,097,695 ratings
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Pet Sematary
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 675,995 ratings
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Joey and His Friend Water
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Ellen J. Lewinberg (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 5,474 ratings
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,751,610 ratings
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 323,943 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 888,928 ratings
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To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, #9)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 125,378 ratings
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Chasing Headlines (Chasing Victory #1)
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J. Rose Black (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 9,764 ratings
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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Charles Duhigg (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 552,506 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,271,745 ratings
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Misery
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 823,071 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,599,945 ratings
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Get Rich or Get Lucky
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Max Nowaz (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 20,745 ratings
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The Girl on the Train
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Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,225,768 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,781,910 ratings
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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
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Sara Pascoe (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 26,531 ratings
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Insomnia
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 165,922 ratings
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Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 583,856 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,396,578 ratings
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 268,534 ratings
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Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss (O'Shaughnessy Investigations Inc. 2)
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4.39 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,002,679 ratings
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The Tommyknockers
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 162,732 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 559,413 ratings
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Snuff
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 66,250 ratings
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His Forefathers and Mick
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Michael G. Kramer (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 8,801 ratings
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And Then There Were None
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4.28 avg rating — 1,561,771 ratings
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Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)
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Jeff Lindsay (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 23,037 ratings
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The Last Lecture
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4.26 avg rating — 360,456 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 744,803 ratings
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Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 139,221 ratings
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THE DOG WALKER: THE PREQUEL (A DOG WALKER NOVEL)
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4.36 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
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Everything I Never Told You
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 602,156 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 791,777 ratings
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Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)
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A.R. Merrydew (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 6,198 ratings
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