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Address Unknown
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Disclosure: A Sci-fi Short Story to Inspire (Subsumption Series)
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Local Girls
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The Ghost Writer
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Crow Girl Returns (Crow Girl, #2)
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Blue Exorcist, Vol. 1
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May (Daughters of the Sea, #2)
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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The Eighth Day of the Week
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
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Overload
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One Week With Her Husband (Eden Manor, #3)
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La Vénus d'Ille et autres nouvelles
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Crow Girl (Crow Girl, #1)
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Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
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Lucy (Daughters of the Sea, #3)
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Sofia Petrovna
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Witch Baby (Weetzie Bat, #2)
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Francesca Lia Block (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 3,909 ratings
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Ghosting
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Keith Gray (Goodreads Author)
3.19 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
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Carrie
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 820,834 ratings
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The Shadow over Innsmouth
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Lily: A Ghost Story
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Dead Poets Society
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Safe Haven
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 398,714 ratings
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The Library of Unrequited Love
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Taras Bulba
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The Call of Cthulhu
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Het behouden huis
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Fire in the Blood
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Alice in Time
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3.36 avg rating — 382 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 1,662,397 ratings
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The Almost Moon
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Hideous Kinky
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The Voice Imitator
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Embroideries
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The Beautifull Cassandra (Penguin Little Black Classics, #33)
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3.35 avg rating — 4,660 ratings
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Anthem
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Lola Rose
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3.89 avg rating — 11,032 ratings
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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, a Poem in Six Cantos
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The Last of the Spirits
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The Colour Out of Space
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The Girl in the Green Raincoat (Tess Monaghan, #11)
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Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 7,686 ratings
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Chéri
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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Penguin Little Black Classics, #42)
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4.07 avg rating — 10,475 ratings
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How It Ends
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Rachel Howzell Hall (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 3,983 ratings
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The Lottie Project
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3.77 avg rating — 11,761 ratings
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Selected Burns for Young Readers
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Coup de Grâce
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The Lady in the Van
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3.71 avg rating — 10,891 ratings
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The Gold Bug
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3.71 avg rating — 7,287 ratings
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The Captain's Verses
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Mike at Wrykyn
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4 Chair Discipling: Growing a Movement of Disciple-Makers (Like Jesus Series)
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4.14 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Snitch
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Fated Blades (Kinsmen, #3)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 11,538 ratings
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The Orchard Keeper
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The Suitcase Kid
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Into That Forest
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The Humbling
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... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
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3.94 avg rating — 2,772 ratings
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The Girl in Blue
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Aimez-vous Brahms...
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Dirt Matters: The Foundation For a Healthy, Vibrant, And Effective Congregation
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The Wood at Midwinter
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The Great Death
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3.57 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Hope for the Flowers
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The Man in the Picture
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La Femme de Gilles
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The Whisperer in Darkness
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The Problem of Pain
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The Passion
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Walden
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The Body Artist
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A Year By The Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
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3.93 avg rating — 9,069 ratings
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The Small Hand
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Washington Square
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I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
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Eliza Griswold (Translation)
4.32 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Sunlight on Cold Water
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History of China, A
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The Princess & The Frog: An Adult Fairy Tale
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Hearts in Atlantis
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Dolly
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Behind a Mask
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The Folk Keeper
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Miss Julie
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Four p.m. Plumber: Erotica for Couples
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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Gossamer
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The Devil and Miss Prym
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The Amazing Mind of Alice Makin
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De Profundis
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Printer's Devil Court
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How I Became a Nun
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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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