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Twilight

Twilight (book)

The first book of the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight is the debut, young-adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. Twilight was initially rejected by 14 agents, but became an instant bestseller when published originally in hardback in 2005, debuting at #5 on the New York Times Best...more

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738 Ratings: +0.2
Eat, Pray, Love

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesia

A book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Emotionally wrung-out from her divorce, the painful ending of a subsequent love affair, and a general, long-standing feeling of malaise, novelist and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert decides to recharge herself through a year's worth of travel, believing...more

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590 Ratings: +0.9
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A Thousand Splendid Suns

A book by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns is the second novel by Afgan author Khaled Hosseini. Before its May 22, 2007 release, the book reached #2 on Amazon.com's bestseller list. 

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480 Ratings: +1.7
Life of Pi

Life of Pi

Novel by Canadian author Yann Martel
The protagonist Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores the issues of religion and spirituality from an early age and survives 227 days shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean.

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540 Ratings: +2.0
Freakonomics

Freakonomics

A book by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner that has been described as melding pop culture with economics....more

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529 Ratings: +2.8
The Da Vinci Code, Special Illustrated Edition

The Da Vinci Code (book)

A book by Dan Brown
Author: Dan Brown
Date Published: (November 2, 2004)
Format: Hardcover: 480 pages, Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.3 x 1.3 inches ...more

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326 Ratings: +1.7
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Fast Food Nation (book)

Book by Eric Schlosser.
Fast Food Nation is a book about the effect of the fast food industry on the United States and the world. Eric Schlosser examines fast food giants like McDonald's, Burger King and Carl's Jr. in regards to brand loyalty, the meat packing industry and...more

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300 Ratings: +2.6
Watchmen

Watchmen

A 12-part comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons
Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted into a collected graphic...more

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229 Ratings: +2.9
The Alchemist

The Alchemist

Bestseller that was first published in Brazil in 1988 and is the most famous work of author Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is an allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho first published in 1988. It follows Santiago, a young Spanish shepherd, on a journey to fulfill his Personal Legend. It has been hailed as a modern classic.  The plot...more

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309 Ratings: +2.5
Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

A book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish: ''El amor en los tiempos del cólera'', 1985) is a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about a fifty-year love triangle between Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza, and Doctor Juvenal Urbino set in the late 19th century...more

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256 Ratings: +2.4
To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960
The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers, and a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic...more

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193 Ratings: +3.8
The Secret

The Secret (book)

New Age self-help book on the law of attraction by Rhonda Byrne
Hypothesizes that one's positive thoughts are powerful magnets that attract wealth, health, happiness

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266 Ratings: +0.0
The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner (book)

Amazing novel and best seller by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner is a novel by the author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing plc, it is Hosseini's first novel, and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007. The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the...more

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122 Ratings: +3.3
Niffenegger's Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife (book)

A novel
The Time Traveler's Wife is a 2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger. It is an unconventional love story that centers on a man with a strange genetic disorder that causes him to unpredictably time travel, and his wife, an artist who has to cope with his frequent...more

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197 Ratings: +2.2
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Outliers

The New Malcolm Gladwell book
Outliers is a book published in 2008 and written by Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink. Gladwell takes readers on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and...more

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192 Ratings: +2.9
Harry Potter Series

Harry Potter Years 1-7

A heptalogy of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling that tells of a magical world.
Author: J.K. Rowling
Format: Novels
Genre: Fantasy ...more

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230 Ratings: +3.5
Three Cups of Tea

Three Cups of Tea

Book by Greg Mortenson and David Relin.
Three Cups of Tea is a New York Times bestselling book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin published by Penguin in 2006. The book describes Mortenson's transition from a mountain-climber to a humanitarian committed to reducing poverty and educating...more

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154 Ratings: +2.0
The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

Novel by J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of alienation and rebellion. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages....more

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186 Ratings: +3.1
Chuck Palahniuk's Choke

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

a book by Chuck Palahniuk
Choke is a 2001 novel by American author Chuck Palahniuk. 

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166 Ratings: +2.4
1984 (British first edition)

1984

English novel by George Orwell
Concerns life in an authoritarian regime as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation when he runs afoul of the totalitarian government of Oceania, the state in which he lives in the year that he presumes...more

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176 Ratings: +3.9
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