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Best Books That You Should Read
Elizabeth Rose's list of best books that everyone should try to read in their lifetime.
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Redeemed By Fire (Fire Chronicles, #3)
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C.J. Bahr (Goodreads Author)
4.77 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,777,256 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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Gone with the Wind
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,287,146 ratings
score: 843,
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Choosing Us (Pierced Hearts Duet, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 4,208 ratings
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
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4.44 avg rating — 310,968 ratings
score: 786,
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 913,079 ratings
score: 783,
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,396,557 ratings
score: 750,
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,374,085 ratings
score: 746,
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 4,051,952 ratings
score: 672,
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,137,254 ratings
score: 663,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,748,609 ratings
score: 651,
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Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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Jojo Moyes (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,772,260 ratings
score: 626,
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,736,561 ratings
score: 609,
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 555,325 ratings
score: 587,
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,824,830 ratings
score: 547,
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,103,286 ratings
score: 543,
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 715,116 ratings
score: 499,
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,487,555 ratings
score: 496,
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Persuasion
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4.15 avg rating — 758,344 ratings
score: 486,
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.02 avg rating — 977,346 ratings
score: 484,
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 3,629,435 ratings
score: 478,
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,002,667 ratings
score: 451,
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 374,162 ratings
score: 449,
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,975,187 ratings
score: 415,
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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4.20 avg rating — 710,003 ratings
score: 406,
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THE ABDUCTION OF GRACE
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 155 ratings
score: 390,
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4 people voted
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City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 984,991 ratings
score: 389,
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Rapid Eye Movement
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Amanda Sheridan (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 154 ratings
score: 389,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,772,071 ratings
score: 379,
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Nowhere Boulevard
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Katherine Black (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 379,
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The Prince of Tides
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4.26 avg rating — 214,603 ratings
score: 378,
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 359,197 ratings
score: 373,
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Pedigree Crush with a Twisted Gene
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Katherine Black (Goodreads Author)
4.79 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 372,
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 3,075,688 ratings
score: 366,
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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 1,013,898 ratings
score: 360,
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 90,855 ratings
score: 360,
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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4.06 avg rating — 103,340 ratings
score: 357,
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Robinson Crusoe
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3.68 avg rating — 326,806 ratings
score: 351,
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,788,764 ratings
score: 345,
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,409,718 ratings
score: 335,
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
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score: 318,
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 3,356,652 ratings
score: 306,
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Perfect Timing (Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan, #11)
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Catherine Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,529 ratings
score: 300,
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Moonbreeze (The Dragonian, #4)
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Adrienne Woods (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 5,282 ratings
score: 300,
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Chasing Eveline
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Leslie Hauser (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 75 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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Sub-Sahara
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Ethan Arkwright (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 247 ratings
score: 300,
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Agent of Vengeance
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4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 300,
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Death After Life: Week One Day One
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4.71 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 299,
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If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
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Gayle Forman (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 958,837 ratings
score: 294,
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.10 avg rating — 509,118 ratings
score: 291,
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Hush Little Children.
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,299 ratings
score: 291,
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The Dreaming
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Amanda Sheridan (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 288,
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And Then There Were None
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4.28 avg rating — 1,561,745 ratings
score: 285,
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 975,036 ratings
score: 284,
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,278,000 ratings
score: 281,
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Ten Thousand Miles by Freight Train: A Memoir of Beauty and Freedom on the Rails
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Carrot Quinn (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 280,
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A Question of Sanity
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Katherine Black (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 112 ratings
score: 279,
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 312,204 ratings
score: 275,
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Leverage
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Katherine Black (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 111 ratings
score: 274,
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Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide To Money
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4.36 avg rating — 6,619 ratings
score: 273,
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 644,405 ratings
score: 273,
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The Lorax
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4.35 avg rating — 365,234 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 771,043 ratings
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Gunfight at the Old Leake Canal
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G.B. Hope (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Girl from Jakarta
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Hester Keegan (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 265,
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 115,196 ratings
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Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
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3.81 avg rating — 30,490 ratings
score: 263,
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Zorro's Last Stand
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Mark Shearman (Goodreads Author)
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score: 262,
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Doctor No (James Bond, #6)
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3.81 avg rating — 25,911 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 814,956 ratings
score: 260,
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 101,639 ratings
score: 257,
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Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
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3.83 avg rating — 26,796 ratings
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
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4.37 avg rating — 31,778 ratings
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
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4.03 avg rating — 192,909 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,089,991 ratings
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
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4.26 avg rating — 332,436 ratings
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Beowulf
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,459,581 ratings
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Animal Farm / 1984
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4.30 avg rating — 212,539 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 470,199 ratings
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The Guns of Navarone
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,781,894 ratings
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London
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Edward Rutherfurd (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 33,795 ratings
score: 214,
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Sex, Doug, and a Rocky Road
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Michele Bardsley (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Salazar
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Seth Lynch (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Sleepless in Las Vegas
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Colleen Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Matter of Choice
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R.M. Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Never Been to Mars
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Larry Gent (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Tommy's Tunnel: My grandad's story and his role in the Battle of Messines Ridge
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Linda De Quincey (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Immortal Coil (The Immortal Coil, #1)
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3.49 avg rating — 241 ratings
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‘Til the End: A Novel of Murder, Addiction, and Lies
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At First Blush
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Beth Ellyn Summer (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Serpent's Fang (The Treasure Huntress #1)
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Ryan Mullaney (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Just Like Animals (Werelock Evolution #5)
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Hettie Ivers (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 924 ratings
score: 200,
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My Name is Finn Jupiter
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Gareth Crocker (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 107 ratings
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