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Your Story, My Story: A Novel
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The Dry Heart
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The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)
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The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)
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All The Lovers In The Night
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Swimmer in the Secret Sea
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The Cat Inside
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Nothing But Blackened Teeth
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Great Granny Webster
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The Breathing Method
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Hot Toy
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Flyaway
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
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Cats, Cats, Cats
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The Lurking Fear
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The Sinister Touch (Guinevere Jones, #3)
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Winter in Sokcho
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To Be a Slave
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The Fatal Fortune (Guinevere Jones, #4)
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
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Wizard
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
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Joanna and Ulysses
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Banbury Bog (Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery, #13)
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William Wilson
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The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
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Weather
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Jenny Offill (Goodreads Author)
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The Queen of Spades
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The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
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Behind the Door
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Bridge to Terabithia
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The Haunter of the Dark
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The Cat of Yule Cottage
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)
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Lemon
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Exiles from Paradise
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Revenge
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The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories
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The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
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A Spindle Splintered
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Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 38,390 ratings
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The House on Hackman's Hill
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We Had to Remove This Post
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Hanna Bervoets (Goodreads Author)
2.91 avg rating — 26,466 ratings
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz, #4)
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Haunted in Death (In Death, #22.5)
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J.D. Robb (Goodreads Author)
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At Dusk
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...
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She and Her Cat
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The Pachinko Parlour
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Trouble in the Brasses (Madoc Rhys #4)
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Cold Enough For Snow
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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Patrick Lencioni (Goodreads Author)
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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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