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The Chilling Deception (Guinevere Jones, #2)
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The New Prophets of Capital
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The Unadulterated Cat
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Private (Private, #1)
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Apt Pupil
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The Dog Who Dared to Dream
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The Dog
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The Marrying Man
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Dept. of Speculation
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Jenny Offill (Goodreads Author)
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The Forbidden Room
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Remembering Laughter
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
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The Bookshop
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Spellbound
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3.75 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Dark Days
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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
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Queen of Babble in the Big City (Queen of Babble, #2)
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 29,367 ratings
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Equus
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Fox 8
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At Night All Blood is Black
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| 926 |
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Queen of Babble (Queen of Babble, #1)
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 70,071 ratings
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Giovanni's Room
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Henrietta's Own Castle
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| 929 |
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A Cup of Tea
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Amy Ephron (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 2,802 ratings
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Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Queen of Babble, #3)
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 34,519 ratings
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Wolfe Watching (Big, Bad Wolfe #2)
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Black Dog (American Gods, #1.2)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 2,872 ratings
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| 929 |
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The Body in Question
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Jill Ciment (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 12,039 ratings
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House of Bones
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Jerusalem's Lot
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 5,669 ratings
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Psmith in the City (Psmith, #2)
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Maigret Defends Himself (Inspector Maigret #63)
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The Portrait
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The Blue Bedspread
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| 939 |
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When Lightning Strikes (1-800-Where-R-You, #1)
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Smith of Wootton Major
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
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Psmith, Journalist (Psmith, #3)
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Sweet Bean Paste
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The Captain and the Glory
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Fox
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Jim Crumley (Contributor)
4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
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Nervous Conditions
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Mario and the Magician and Other Stories
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Atlantic Hotel
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3.46 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Tonio Kröger
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The Wild Life of the Fox
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3.58 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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The Physicists
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)
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The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman
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The Silence
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The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue
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Sex and the New You: For Young Men Ages 13-15
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People From My Neighbourhood
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Rheinsberg: ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte
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The Forest of Wool and Steel
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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
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Irish Journal
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Spark
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Writing a Woman's Life
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Die Feuerzangenbowle. Eine Lausbüberei in der Kleinstadt
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Twelve Nights
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The Burnt Orange Heresy
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In Praise of the Stepmother
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Once at the Edge of the Sea
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Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing
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Waiting for the Barbarians
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The Heights of Macchu Picchu
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What's to Become of the Boy? Or, Something to Do with Books
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Nightbird
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Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories
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Good Morning, Midnight
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A Single Rose
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The Lost Daughter
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The Pigeon
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Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales
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The Shunned House
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The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A Medieval Ghost Story
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3.44 avg rating — 1,661 ratings
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The Trumpet of Conscience
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink
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A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined
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Bunnicula (Bunnicula, #1)
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Iris & Ruby
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The Mermaid in the Millpond
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Lucy Strange (Goodreads Author)
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The Sense of an Ending
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The Gingerbread Girl
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
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The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1)
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A Nation of Takers: America's Entitlement Epidemic
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The Old Man of Lochnagar
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The Glass Key
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The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1)
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Aiding and Abetting
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Max und Moritz. Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen
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Jan 01, 2010 05:50PM
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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