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Characters are what makes a book alive. Without them a book is merely a bunch of papers with useless ink. With thousands of good books in print, which of them have a set of characters that is so unforgettable, wonderful, inspirational, and mesmerizing? Characters that you can relate to. Characters that though fictional, you have grown a great desire to meet them. Vote now and fight for your characters!
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,148,693 ratings
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,035,390 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,374,217 ratings
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The Help
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4.47 avg rating — 2,976,825 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,248,049 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 4,718,108 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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4.58 avg rating — 3,587,843 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,736,785 ratings
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 819,578 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,677,637 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,689,171 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 4,384,311 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,616,805 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,100,453 ratings
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Matilda
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4.33 avg rating — 1,084,412 ratings
score: 859,
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A Christmas Carol
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4.28 avg rating — 5,156 ratings
score: 796,
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,718,077 ratings
score: 734,
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 3,075,818 ratings
score: 729,
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,027,008 ratings
score: 713,
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,138,777 ratings
score: 674,
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 3,356,719 ratings
score: 661,
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,396,633 ratings
score: 643,
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,821,037 ratings
score: 558,
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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 1,013,954 ratings
score: 553,
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 500,942 ratings
score: 515,
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6 people voted
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 531,755 ratings
score: 509,
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 876,960 ratings
score: 509,
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,000,700 ratings
score: 503,
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 3,361,632 ratings
score: 471,
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 502,033 ratings
score: 459,
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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
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Lemony Snicket (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 562,119 ratings
score: 456,
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 720,219 ratings
score: 456,
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 378,138 ratings
score: 449,
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5 people voted
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 4,310,983 ratings
score: 442,
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5 people voted
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,781,941 ratings
score: 439,
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 1,088,214 ratings
score: 407,
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5 people voted
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,323,828 ratings
score: 401,
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6 people voted
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The Wind in the Willows
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4.02 avg rating — 236,691 ratings
score: 397,
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 7,170,151 ratings
score: 387,
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4 people voted
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Much Ado About Nothing
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4.06 avg rating — 255,773 ratings
score: 364,
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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
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4.01 avg rating — 300,001 ratings
score: 356,
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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3.94 avg rating — 570,837 ratings
score: 347,
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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4.17 avg rating — 399,671 ratings
score: 346,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,275,993 ratings
score: 324,
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 834,089 ratings
score: 323,
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The Glass Menagerie
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3.74 avg rating — 141,663 ratings
score: 308,
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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4.04 avg rating — 209,497 ratings
score: 299,
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4 people voted
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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Lynessa James (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 608 ratings
score: 299,
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3 people voted
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Complicated Moonlight (DCYE, #2)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 310 ratings
score: 296,
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,002,698 ratings
score: 294,
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5 people voted
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,662,397 ratings
score: 291,
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4 people voted
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Ivanhoe
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3.76 avg rating — 98,265 ratings
score: 281,
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4 people voted
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Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 675,500 ratings
score: 279,
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3 people voted
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The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset (The Hunger Games, #1-3)
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4.50 avg rating — 232,461 ratings
score: 277,
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3 people voted
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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4.30 avg rating — 321,926 ratings
score: 275,
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4 people voted
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 101,642 ratings
score: 265,
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 226,721 ratings
score: 259,
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3 people voted
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Cold Comfort Farm
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3.88 avg rating — 54,144 ratings
score: 258,
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3 people voted
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,734,921 ratings
score: 253,
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 359,205 ratings
score: 250,
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,975,283 ratings
score: 245,
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 346,386 ratings
score: 243,
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,427,492 ratings
score: 242,
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 704,741 ratings
score: 236,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,772,168 ratings
score: 233,
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,405,963 ratings
score: 228,
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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3.97 avg rating — 163,824 ratings
score: 225,
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’Salem’s Lot
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 641,815 ratings
score: 224,
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3 people voted
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,138,259 ratings
score: 224,
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3 people voted
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 4,052,123 ratings
score: 217,
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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4.28 avg rating — 697,732 ratings
score: 216,
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,554,173 ratings
score: 216,
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Julius Caesar
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3.71 avg rating — 216,315 ratings
score: 216,
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,599,966 ratings
score: 210,
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 999,006 ratings
score: 203,
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The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 241,963 ratings
score: 199,
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The Thin Man
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3.90 avg rating — 37,637 ratings
score: 198,
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Sand (The Sand Chronicles, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 32,359 ratings
score: 197,
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Othello
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3.89 avg rating — 430,175 ratings
score: 197,
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Fiend
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Peter Stenson (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 3,895 ratings
score: 195,
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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4.20 avg rating — 710,035 ratings
score: 193,
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,981,676 ratings
score: 192,
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,335,302 ratings
score: 189,
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 274,315 ratings
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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
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4.03 avg rating — 192,919 ratings
score: 189,
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On the Island (On the Island, #1)
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Tracey Garvis Graves (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 86,683 ratings
score: 188,
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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4.02 avg rating — 214,718 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,090,026 ratings
score: 186,
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
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Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 221,066 ratings
score: 185,
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The Assassin's Curse (The Assassin's Curse, #1)
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Cassandra Rose Clarke (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 18,553 ratings
score: 184,
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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 267,066 ratings
score: 180,
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The Merchant of Venice
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3.78 avg rating — 200,114 ratings
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Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)
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4.73 avg rating — 300,489 ratings
score: 175,
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Uglies (Uglies, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 703,200 ratings
score: 173,
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,777,415 ratings
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The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)
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Martha Grimes (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 19,529 ratings
score: 172,
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Redeeming Love
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Francine Rivers (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 362,699 ratings
score: 171,
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Jaws (Jaws, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 176,302 ratings
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May 11, 2013 10:23AM
The characters in The Wayward Gifted are fresh, unique, and believable. I hope we see more of Mr. Felphul in the next part of the series.
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