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The 333 Syndrome
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
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A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
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Le Magasin des suicides
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Mother's Love
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Massimo Marino (Goodreads Author)
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The Mind
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Slaughterhouse
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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Crank Palace (The Maze Runner, #3.5)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
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The Driver's Seat
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In the Penal Colony
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A Monster Calls
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The Ghost Child
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Telling Time by the Shadows
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John Fitzgerald (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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Jay Asher (Goodreads Author)
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Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1)
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Miracle on the 17th Green (Travis McKinley, #.5)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 6,498 ratings
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Norwegian Wood
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The Haunting of Hill House
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White Boy in Watts
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Skipping Christmas
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 84,406 ratings
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Up the Down Staircase
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The Monkey's Paw
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Child of God
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3.82 avg rating — 53,566 ratings
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| 227 |
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He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
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Greg Behrendt (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 66,839 ratings
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The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
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Antigone
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3.77 avg rating — 29,564 ratings
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sweets for my sweet
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Bernie Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 121,976 ratings
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The Raven and Other Favorite Poems
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 653,709 ratings
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| 234 |
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Legion (Legion, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 43,692 ratings
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Spice & Wolf, Vol. 01
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Momo
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Cut
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3.76 avg rating — 59,965 ratings
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Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 350,731 ratings
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The Crying of Lot 49
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3.69 avg rating — 94,504 ratings
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A Simple Plan
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3.91 avg rating — 33,142 ratings
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K-Pax (K-Pax, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 3,765 ratings
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Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
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Bleach, Vol. 1
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The Vet's Daughter
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The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man
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Oddball (Sarah's Scribbles, #4)
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Sarah Andersen (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 8,417 ratings
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A Box of Matches
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Nicholson Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 2,666 ratings
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Mother Night
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Orthodoxy
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Roman Fever and Other Stories
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The Moon Is Down
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3.95 avg rating — 32,445 ratings
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Learning to Swim (Troy Chance, #1)
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Sara J. Henry (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 8,215 ratings
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Flush
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Double Love (Sweet Valley High, #1)
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Francine Pascal (Creator)
3.56 avg rating — 9,878 ratings
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Kitchen
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem
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Dark Harvest
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Best Friends (Sweet Valley Twins, #1)
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Francine Pascal (Creator)
3.91 avg rating — 9,287 ratings
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The Highwayman (Walt Longmire, #11.5)
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Bleachers
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 45,944 ratings
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Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics
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Our Souls at Night
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To the Stars
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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Out of My Head
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Short Stories
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Young Goodman Brown
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The Vegetarian
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The Most Dangerous Game
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Tales from Outer Suburbia
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The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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Binti (Binti, #1)
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Snakes And Earrings
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School, #1)
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Convenience Store Woman
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The Snow Goose
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Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
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Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author)
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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A Circle of Cats
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The Castle of Otranto
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First Love
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Last Night at the Lobster
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
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One Writer's Beginnings
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Common Sense
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The House of Paper
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Dream Story
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At the Mountains of Madness
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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The Power Of Positive Thinking
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Population: 485
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Austenland (Austenland, #1)
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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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