Dead in 2025: The Authors We Lost

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Puff, the Magic Dragon
Puff, the Magic Dragon 4.23 avg rating β€” 5,176 ratings
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The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal 4.27 avg rating β€” 142,725 ratings
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The Time of the Hero
The Time of the Hero 4.17 avg rating β€” 27,082 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating β€” 918 ratings
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 3.78 avg rating β€” 56,593 ratings
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A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology 4.30 avg rating β€” 7,408 ratings
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The Onion Field
The Onion Field 4.11 avg rating β€” 21,240 ratings
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David Lynch: Someone is in my House
David Lynch: Someone is in my House 4.58 avg rating β€” 250 ratings
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Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) 3.84 avg rating β€” 28,561 ratings
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Cook Like a Rock Star: 125 Recipes, Lessons, and Culinary Secrets: A Cookbook
Cook Like a Rock Star: 125 Recipes, Lessons, and Culinary Secrets: A Cookbook 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,101 ratings
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Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman 3.50 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease
The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease 4.36 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking
Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking 4.29 avg rating β€” 152 ratings
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Shattered Love: A Memoir
Shattered Love: A Memoir 3.55 avg rating β€” 740 ratings
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Life: My Story Through History
Life: My Story Through History 4.25 avg rating β€” 1,328 ratings
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By George: The Autobiography of George Foreman
By George: The Autobiography of George Foreman 3.82 avg rating β€” 136 ratings
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Faithfull
Faithfull 4.01 avg rating β€” 3,340 ratings
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I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir
I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir 3.69 avg rating β€” 4,822 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating β€” 564,626 ratings
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Unnatural Habits (Phryne Fisher, #19)
Unnatural Habits (Phryne Fisher, #19) 4.13 avg rating β€” 5,832 ratings
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The Odessa File
The Odessa File 4.14 avg rating β€” 62,434 ratings
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Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor
Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor 3.70 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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Conversation in the Cathedral
Conversation in the Cathedral 4.38 avg rating β€” 11,138 ratings
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1) 3.89 avg rating β€” 132,390 ratings
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty (The Edmund Trilogy, #2)
The Beautiful Room Is Empty (The Edmund Trilogy, #2) 3.92 avg rating β€” 3,424 ratings
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires 4.14 avg rating β€” 6,318 ratings
26.
I Am Ozzy
I Am Ozzy 4.11 avg rating β€” 30,636 ratings
28.
The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1)
The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1)
by: Ken Bruen
3.83 avg rating β€” 6,919 ratings
28.
The Dogs of War
The Dogs of War 3.99 avg rating β€” 24,732 ratings
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Southern Biscuits
Southern Biscuits 4.28 avg rating β€” 502 ratings
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In Defense of Anarchism
In Defense of Anarchism 3.54 avg rating β€” 611 ratings
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Catcher in the Wry
Catcher in the Wry 3.90 avg rating β€” 663 ratings
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Roberta Flack Unauthorized & Uncensored
Roberta Flack Unauthorized & Uncensored 2.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Desert of Souls (The Chronicles of Sword and Sand #1)
The Desert of Souls (The Chronicles of Sword and Sand #1) 3.74 avg rating β€” 1,200 ratings
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The Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David, Vol. 2
The Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David, Vol. 2 3.96 avg rating β€” 398 ratings
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Snow
Snow 4.06 avg rating β€” 5,196 ratings
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating β€” 4,079 ratings
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Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
by: Sly Stone
3.60 avg rating β€” 1,430 ratings
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The Choirboys
The Choirboys 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,349 ratings
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I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir
I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir 3.78 avg rating β€” 3,101 ratings
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The Lucky Thirteen: The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing
The Lucky Thirteen: The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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A Boy's Own Story (The Edmund Trilogy, #1)
A Boy's Own Story (The Edmund Trilogy, #1) 3.71 avg rating β€” 9,053 ratings
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Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) 4.04 avg rating β€” 69,062 ratings
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 3.90 avg rating β€” 429 ratings
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Theo and Me: Growing Up Okay
Theo and Me: Growing Up Okay liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Secret Wars
Secret Wars 3.71 avg rating β€” 5,789 ratings
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My Life Outside the Ring
My Life Outside the Ring 3.52 avg rating β€” 1,069 ratings
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Healing and the Mind
Healing and the Mind 4.20 avg rating β€” 711 ratings
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My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank
My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 693 ratings
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Beautiful Cracked Eyes
Beautiful Cracked Eyes 4.87 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer 4.16 avg rating β€” 34,162 ratings
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The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music 4.12 avg rating β€” 420 ratings
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Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey
Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,016 ratings
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Postcards from No Man's Land
Postcards from No Man's Land 3.66 avg rating β€” 2,682 ratings
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God in My Corner
God in My Corner 4.01 avg rating β€” 137 ratings
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A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat 3.88 avg rating β€” 6,515 ratings
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The Demonologist
The Demonologist 3.33 avg rating β€” 10,148 ratings
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Liccle Bit
Liccle Bit 3.77 avg rating β€” 436 ratings
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William
William 3.51 avg rating β€” 10,860 ratings
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Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want
Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want 3.95 avg rating β€” 409 ratings
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Don't Shoot the Dog! : The New Art of Teaching and Training
Don't Shoot the Dog! : The New Art of Teaching and Training 4.24 avg rating β€” 6,591 ratings
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Room to Dream
Room to Dream 4.37 avg rating β€” 8,043 ratings
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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity 3.76 avg rating β€” 18,579 ratings
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Kill My Mother
Kill My Mother 3.13 avg rating β€” 1,862 ratings
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Payback at Morning Peak
Payback at Morning Peak 3.78 avg rating β€” 349 ratings
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Brixton Rock
Brixton Rock 3.76 avg rating β€” 364 ratings
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The Science of Success: How To Attract Prosperity and Create Harmonic Wealth Through Proven Principles
The Science of Success: How To Attract Prosperity and Create Harmonic Wealth Through Proven Principles 3.99 avg rating β€” 237 ratings
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Journeyman: The Art of Chris Moore
Journeyman: The Art of Chris Moore 4.40 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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The Farewell Symphony (The Edmund Trilogy, #3)
The Farewell Symphony (The Edmund Trilogy, #3) 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,179 ratings
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Wizard of the Crow
Wizard of the Crow 4.23 avg rating β€” 3,647 ratings
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Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer 4.40 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead 4.29 avg rating β€” 3,752 ratings
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The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2)
The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2) 3.68 avg rating β€” 93,634 ratings
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My Lives: A Frank, Irreverent, and Funny Memoir by Gay Literary Icon Edmund White
My Lives: A Frank, Irreverent, and Funny Memoir by Gay Literary Icon Edmund White 3.78 avg rating β€” 515 ratings
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Deaf Sentence
Deaf Sentence 3.75 avg rating β€” 4,757 ratings
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Across State Lines: Applying the Conflict of Laws to Your Practice
Across State Lines: Applying the Conflict of Laws to Your Practice 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Backing Into Forward
Backing Into Forward 3.44 avg rating β€” 173 ratings
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Living, Loving, Laughing, Dying, and Crying on Peachtree
Living, Loving, Laughing, Dying, and Crying on Peachtree 2.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s 3.73 avg rating β€” 1,225 ratings
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Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1)
Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1) 3.81 avg rating β€” 8,988 ratings
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Hidden Ulster: Protestants and the Irish Language
Hidden Ulster: Protestants and the Irish Language 3.86 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Peter Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life
Peter Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life 4.58 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
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Monsieur Butterfly
Monsieur Butterfly 4.03 avg rating β€” 66 ratings
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Southern Nights and City Lights
Southern Nights and City Lights 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers 4.17 avg rating β€” 9,141 ratings
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Falsettos
Falsettos 4.68 avg rating β€” 384 ratings
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Our Young Man
Our Young Man 3.47 avg rating β€” 962 ratings
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Social Crimes (Jo Slater #1)
Social Crimes (Jo Slater #1) 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,892 ratings
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Laugh Lines: 50 Years of Jokes, Stories, and Life As an Entertainer
Laugh Lines: 50 Years of Jokes, Stories, and Life As an Entertainer 4.38 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics 4.27 avg rating β€” 1,600 ratings
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Hippie Chick
Hippie Chick 3.89 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
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Skinned Alive
Skinned Alive 3.70 avg rating β€” 336 ratings
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Revenge of Odessa (The Odessa Series #2)
Revenge of Odessa (The Odessa Series #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Unbeaten
Unbeaten 4.13 avg rating β€” 1,428 ratings
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News of the World
News of the World 4.08 avg rating β€” 110,556 ratings
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Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness
Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness 4.40 avg rating β€” 510 ratings
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A Barn in New England: Making a Home on Three Acres
A Barn in New England: Making a Home on Three Acres 3.92 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The First Men
The First Men 4.07 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Koning van Katoren (Katoren, #1)
Koning van Katoren (Katoren, #1) 4.14 avg rating β€” 10,280 ratings
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