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1

My Family and Other Animals

by Gerald Durrell

5,389 members

157 reviews

4.2

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2

An Autobiography

by Agatha Christie

1,946 members

40 reviews

4.1

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3

Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000 Mile Canoe Adventure

by Don Starkell

195 members

4 reviews

4

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4

by Markus Zusak

6,737 members

335 reviews

4

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5

As For Me and My House

by Sinclair Ross

434 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

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6

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

by Mordecai Richler

1,395 members

16 reviews

3.8

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7

by Charlotte Brontë

60,567 members

928 reviews

4.2

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8

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

5,547 members

183 reviews

½ 4.3

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9

by Richard Russo

8,872 members

184 reviews

4

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10

A Thousand Acres

6,253 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

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11

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

11,624 members

695 reviews

½ 4.3

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12

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,051 members

347 reviews

4

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13

by Wilkie Collins

1,269 members

33 reviews

4

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14

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

25,646 members

529 reviews

4.1

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15

Pride and Prejudice

83,086 members

1,381 reviews

½ 4.4

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16

Sense and Sensibility

39,183 members

525 reviews

4.1

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17

Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography

by Douglas Botting

138 members

2 reviews

3.8

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18

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

43,502 members

1,161 reviews

4.1

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19

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,205 members

53 reviews

4.1

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20

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

40,110 members

670 reviews

3.9

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21

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

26,396 members

387 reviews

4

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22

Rilla of Ingleside

by L. M. Montgomery

6,625 members

70 reviews

4.1

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23

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,571 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

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24

by Douglas Coupland

4,968 members

64 reviews

3.9

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25

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

by Daniel L. Everett

787 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

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26

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,621 members

107 reviews

3.8

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27

25,313 members

589 reviews

4.1

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28

84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

5,989 members

354 reviews

½ 4.3

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29

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

23,519 members

943 reviews

3.8

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30

by Connie Willis

8,082 members

377 reviews

4.1

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31

The Chronicles of Narnia

36,818 members

313 reviews

½ 4.3

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32

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

4,994 members

63 reviews

½ 4.3

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33

My Traitor's Heart

672 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

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34

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

21,080 members

795 reviews

½ 4.4

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35

Harry Potter - The Complete Series

by J. K. Rowling

12,297 members

175 reviews

½ 4.6

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36

The Complete Little House Nine-Book Set

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

4,676 members

53 reviews

½ 4.4

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37

Picnic at Hanging Rock

by Joan Lindsay

1,977 members

60 reviews

3.8

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38

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,924 members

1,749 reviews

4

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39

by Daphne Du Maurier

21,296 members

618 reviews

4.2

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40

by William Shakespeare

33,737 members

295 reviews

4.2

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41

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

9,109 members

192 reviews

4

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42

Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind

by Donald C. Johanson

1,083 members

8 reviews

4

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43

by Albert Camus

36,363 members

506 reviews

3.9

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44

by John Wyndham

4,842 members

124 reviews

3.9

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45

by Catherine Marshall

3,762 members

45 reviews

4.1

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46

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

55,076 members

780 reviews

3.9

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47

The Nun's Story

by Kathryn Hulme

503 members

9 reviews

3.9

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48

The Far Pavilions

2,409 members

68 reviews

4.1

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49

Light a Penny Candle

by Maeve Binchy

1,979 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

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50

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,613 members

215 reviews

½ 3.7

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June 2017
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