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Oprah's Summer Reading Lists 2012 and 2013
Oprah's Summer Reading lists from 2012 and 2013. Please do not add books. All books on the list are included.
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The Light Between Oceans
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M.L. Stedman (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 475,083 ratings
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A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
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Qais Akbar Omar (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 4,348 ratings
score: 789,
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8 people voted
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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3.87 avg rating — 594,714 ratings
score: 685,
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 191,480 ratings
score: 481,
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5 people voted
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The Age of Miracles
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Karen Thompson Walker (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 94,326 ratings
score: 474,
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5 people voted
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Seating Arrangements
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Maggie Shipstead (Goodreads Author)
3.08 avg rating — 23,239 ratings
score: 349,
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4 people voted
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Beautiful Ruins
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3.68 avg rating — 183,812 ratings
score: 334,
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4 people voted
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
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Carol Rifka Brunt (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 148,417 ratings
score: 296,
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3 people voted
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The Shining Girls
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Lauren Beukes (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 53,701 ratings
score: 231,
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3 people voted
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The Queen's Lover
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2.99 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
score: 225,
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3 people voted
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Wave
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3.79 avg rating — 22,653 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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The Celestials
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Karen Shepard (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 343 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
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3.91 avg rating — 7,219 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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Godforsaken Idaho
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3.59 avg rating — 694 ratings
score: 174,
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2 people voted
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Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism
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Martha Grimes (Goodreads Author)
3.15 avg rating — 324 ratings
score: 166,
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2 people voted
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Tigers in Red Weather
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Liza Klaussmann (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 15,869 ratings
score: 161,
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2 people voted
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Bloodman
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3.79 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
score: 157,
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2 people voted
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Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
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3.25 avg rating — 8,125 ratings
score: 155,
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2 people voted
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People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
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Richard Lloyd Parry (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 23,020 ratings
score: 154,
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2 people voted
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Heading Out to Wonderful
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3.54 avg rating — 8,410 ratings
score: 145,
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2 people voted
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The Red House
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2.96 avg rating — 16,557 ratings
score: 138,
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2 people voted
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The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
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Anton DiSclafani (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 21,548 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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I Am Forbidden
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Anouk Markovits (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 5,784 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Hypnotist's Love Story
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Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 159,304 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
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4.11 avg rating — 3,407 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Panopticon
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Jenni Fagan (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 5,926 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Gold
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Chris Cleave (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 16,796 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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The Virgin Cure
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Ami McKay (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 16,043 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Calling Invisible Women
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3.43 avg rating — 6,837 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition
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Doreen Carvajal (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 264 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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Sparta
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3.81 avg rating — 890 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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Inside
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Alix Ohlin (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 3,927 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Fools: Stories
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3.73 avg rating — 944 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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A Hundred Summers
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Beatriz Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 49,329 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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Love All
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Callie Wright (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 540 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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Swimming Studies
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Leanne Shapton (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 2,467 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me
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3.40 avg rating — 2,647 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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I Want to Show You More
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Jamie Quatro (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Brilliance (Brilliance Saga, #1)
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Marcus Sakey (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 32,988 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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Bobcat and Other Stories
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3.89 avg rating — 4,888 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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Note to Self
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2.55 avg rating — 296 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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We Are Taking Only What We Need
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Stephanie Powell Watts (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 656 ratings
score: 70,
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1 person voted
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Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas
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3.94 avg rating — 352 ratings
score: 69,
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1 person voted
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Visitation Street
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Ivy Pochoda (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 8,273 ratings
score: 68,
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1 person voted
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This Is Paradise: Stories
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Kristiana Kahakauwila (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
score: 67,
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1 person voted
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Dare Me
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Megan Abbott (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 29,980 ratings
score: 65,
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1 person voted
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In the Shadow of the Banyan
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Vaddey Ratner (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 21,812 ratings
score: 64,
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1 person voted
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The Empty Glass
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3.19 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
score: 63,
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1 person voted
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No One Could Have Guessed the Weather
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2.73 avg rating — 906 ratings
score: 62,
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1 person voted
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Alif the Unseen
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G. Willow Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 17,892 ratings
score: 60,
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1 person voted
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The Secret Life of Objects
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Dawn Raffel (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 442 ratings
score: 59,
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1 person voted
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Rockaway
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Tara Ison (Goodreads Author)
2.85 avg rating — 198 ratings
score: 58,
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1 person voted
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Battleborn
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4.12 avg rating — 5,415 ratings
score: 56,
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1 person voted
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Kingdom of Strangers
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Zoë Ferraris (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 2,387 ratings
score: 52,
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1 person voted
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Shout Her Lovely Name
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Natalie Serber (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 918 ratings
score: 51,
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1 person voted
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Spectacle: Stories
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3.78 avg rating — 439 ratings
score: 50,
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1 person voted
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Big Brother
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Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 14,533 ratings
score: 49,
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1 person voted
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If You Were Here
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Alafair Burke (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 8,724 ratings
score: 48,
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1 person voted
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The Last Summer of the Camperdowns
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3.48 avg rating — 3,578 ratings
score: 47,
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True Believers
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Kurt Andersen (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 2,098 ratings
score: 46,
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1 person voted
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Imperfect Bliss
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2.72 avg rating — 580 ratings
score: 43,
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The World Without You
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Joshua Henkin (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 3,376 ratings
score: 42,
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Criminal (Will Trent, #6)
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Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 69,383 ratings
score: 40,
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Gone
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3.09 avg rating — 1,161 ratings
score: 39,
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A Small Fortune
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3.28 avg rating — 357 ratings
score: 38,
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What Happened to Sophie Wilder
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Christopher R. Beha (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
score: 37,
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I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
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3.63 avg rating — 2,440 ratings
score: 36,
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The Interestings
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3.60 avg rating — 122,611 ratings
score: 35,
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The Whipping Club
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Deborah Henry (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 323 ratings
score: 33,
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All Decent Animals
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3.08 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 32,
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The Starboard Sea
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Amber Dermont (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 4,680 ratings
score: 31,
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Signs and Wonders
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Alix Ohlin (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 722 ratings
score: 30,
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Drowned
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3.26 avg rating — 6,624 ratings
score: 29,
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The Bright River:A Novel
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3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 28,
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Aerogrammes: and Other Stories
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Tania James (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 409 ratings
score: 27,
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An Uncommon Education
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Elizabeth Percer (Goodreads Author)
3.14 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
score: 25,
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The Undertow
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Jo Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 855 ratings
score: 24,
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