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Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce
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Taken by my Gay Rose Bush
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Love, Loss, and What I Wore: My Life in Fashion
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The Tulip Touch
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
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Fatherhood
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Gone with the Mind
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Six-Gun Snow White
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Home (Binti, #2)
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
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Taken by my Gay Rose Bush 2: Hosta Have Him
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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Hidden Child
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The Double Life of Pocahontas
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Aquamarine
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
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Soul of Wood
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The Summer Book
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The Prime Minister's Executive Ass
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The Back Door of Midnight
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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Claudine Married
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Lyra's Oxford (His Dark Materials, #3.5)
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Rock Crystal
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Wired Love
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Captured by the Gay Holiday Elf
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No Time to Die (Dark Secrets, #3)
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Claudine and Annie
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The Tale of Despereaux
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Kate DiCamillo (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 211,190 ratings
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Storm Boy
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Aliss at the Fire
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The Gate of Angels
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The Night Masquerade (Binti #3)
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 23,023 ratings
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The Deep End of Fear (Dark Secrets, #4)
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Veronika Decides to Die
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 238,661 ratings
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The Fifth Beauty
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Ellison James (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters
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Valentine Joe (Rose #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 428 ratings
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The Pit and the Pendulum
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Funhouse
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Death Is Not the End (Inspector Rebus, #10.5)
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Ian Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
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The Woman in Black
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Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
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Puberty Blues
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3.45 avg rating — 2,287 ratings
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On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein: My Years with the Exasperating Genius
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3.90 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Radiance (Riley Bloom, #1)
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Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 16,438 ratings
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Blue Dog
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Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
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Acadia National Park Motorists Guide Park Loop Road
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Everyman
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Book of Shadows (Sweep, #1)
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Stray
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The Thing on the Doorstep
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Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
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Alberto Manguel (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 2,512 ratings
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High Lonesome
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Better Late Than Never (Gifted, #2)
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The Silver Donkey: A Novel for Children
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Fräulein Else
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Gifted, #1)
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Frank Moore Cross: Conversations With a Bible Scholar
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Hershel Shanks (Editor)
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Poetics
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3.83 avg rating — 28,767 ratings
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Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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The Mist in the Mirror
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The Poet's Self and the Poem: Essays on Goethe, Nietzsche, Rilke and Thomas Mann
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Walkabout
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Krazy 4 U
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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Frankenstein
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The Sufferings of Young Werther
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Shadows (Dark Touch, #1)
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Autumnal Tints (Applewood Books)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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The Guest Cat
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Wittgenstein's Nephew
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Life & Times of Michael K
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Abomination
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories
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The Rats in the Walls
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Snapshots
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The Commitments (The Barrytown Trilogy, #1; Jimmy Rabbitte, #1)
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The Body (Point Horror, #54)
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Rage
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Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)
3.71 avg rating — 55,798 ratings
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The Desperate Game (Guinevere Jones, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 1,664 ratings
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Late Fame
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The Host Rides Out
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Celia Rees (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Flying for France
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Herbert West—Reanimator
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The Spy
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The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
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A Trap in Time
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Celia Rees (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
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Taking the Titanic
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Renaissance Man
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City of Shadows (The Celia Rees Supernatural Trilogy #1)
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Born to Run
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Night of the Twisters
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The Light of Day
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Witch Child (Witch Child, #1)
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Pigs Is Pigs
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Stephen King's N.
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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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