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Animal Farm
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The Little Prince
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Lord of the Flies
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The Alchemist
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Night
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The Metamorphosis
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The Stranger
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A Christmas Carol
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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The Time Machine
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The Call of the Wild
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Siddhartha
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Richard Bach (Goodreads Author)
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
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The Crucible
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84, Charing Cross Road
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The Pearl
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3.56 avg rating — 264,301 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 374,597 ratings
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Ethan Frome
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3.45 avg rating — 135,656 ratings
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The Invisible Man
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Candide
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3.76 avg rating — 296,431 ratings
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The House on Mango Street
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3.69 avg rating — 225,527 ratings
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Death of a Salesman
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3.59 avg rating — 254,244 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 549,035 ratings
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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3.97 avg rating — 227,522 ratings
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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3.57 avg rating — 76,717 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
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3.38 avg rating — 173,704 ratings
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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4.04 avg rating — 92,337 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 556,003 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 223,761 ratings
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Brokeback Mountain
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4.02 avg rating — 50,566 ratings
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Tao Te Ching
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4.29 avg rating — 178,659 ratings
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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The Silence Dividend: Science Fiction Dystopian
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Arrival
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4.35 avg rating — 59,325 ratings
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The Canterville Ghost
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3.88 avg rating — 68,982 ratings
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Pygmalion
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3.89 avg rating — 108,696 ratings
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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3.64 avg rating — 67,291 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 652,296 ratings
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The Prophet
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4.23 avg rating — 323,190 ratings
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,554,247 ratings
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Alice Through The Looking Glass
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4.01 avg rating — 142,207 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 250,248 ratings
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Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
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James and the Giant Peach
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,781,978 ratings
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 148,929 ratings
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Silk
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3.85 avg rating — 71,528 ratings
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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3.92 avg rating — 277,949 ratings
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The End of the Affair
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3.90 avg rating — 69,531 ratings
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Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
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A River Runs Through It
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4.15 avg rating — 11,592 ratings
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An Ideal Husband
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A Single Shard
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Amsterdam
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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3.73 avg rating — 132,546 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
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4.39 avg rating — 323,196 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.59 avg rating — 104,313 ratings
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,083,059 ratings
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The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
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3.91 avg rating — 384,494 ratings
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Utopia
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3.55 avg rating — 81,227 ratings
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Magical Matchmaker (Witches of Moonhaven #3)
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Melissa Bellis (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Spellbound Masquerade (Witches of Moonhaven #1)
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Melissa Bellis (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Wishing Tree (Witches of Moonhaven #2)
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Melissa Bellis (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 47,500 ratings
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
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Amadeus
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O Pioneers!
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Beautiful, Complicated Family: Volume 1
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Rosey Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Before The Silence: Prequel to The Silence Dividend
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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The Little Match Girl
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Easter Scales (Witches of Moonhaven #4)
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Melissa Bellis (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Daisy Miller
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The Red Badge of Courage
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The Westing Game
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
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Say Cheese and Die! (Goosebumps, #4)
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R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author)
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The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
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Ellen Foster
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The Dead
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
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Nine Stories
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The Quiet American
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The Castle (Suri Series, #0.5)
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The Lammas Charm (Witches of Moonhaven Book 6)
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I guess alot of folks have a different view of "quick reads" than i do. James Joyce in one sitting? I don't think so.
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I agree. I'd vote on more books here, except they're too long for me to read in one sitting.
I find it strange that A Clockwork Orange is a fast read...I feel like it takes more than just one sit down. Especially with such inventive language.
I agree with all of you!!! I really was interested in some fast reads!!! Now I'm not sure how believable this is. Aren't there any moderators?
You don't want a moderator - you need a GR Librarian.What should I delete?
These seem to vary between stories I can read in an hour and stories that, admittedly, took me at least three weeks to read. Maybe I'm not a hardcore enough reader? Trainspotting took me a while to read; it's over 300 pages long AND the language style slowed me down.
Well, I can speed read, but I'm not sure if counts as real reading. After all, Frankenstein took me a couple weeks. As it was written in the early 19th century, I spent a bit of time looking up words, and analyzing sentences and dialogue. I got more out of it that way.
John wrote: "I guess alot of folks have a different view of "quick reads" than i do. James Joyce in one sitting? I don't think so."I have been wondering about some titles myself, as to me they were definitely not a quick read, 'to be read in one sitting', as the description says. I read, on average, 30 pages per hour, which means a novel of 150 pages would take me five hours...
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