Titles using "--Ing" verbs: Present Participles and Gerunds

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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) 4.35 avg rating β€” 4,011,479 ratings
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The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew 3.74 avg rating β€” 178,313 ratings
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Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating β€” 217,098 ratings
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Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2) 4.11 avg rating β€” 174,905 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Shining (The Shining, #1) 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,650,312 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate 4.14 avg rating β€” 8,952 ratings
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Sexing the Cherry
Sexing the Cherry 3.84 avg rating β€” 18,756 ratings
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying 3.89 avg rating β€” 24,361 ratings
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The Giving Tree
The Giving Tree 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,209,722 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating β€” 377,776 ratings
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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating β€” 400,427 ratings
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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2) 3.82 avg rating β€” 204,952 ratings
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Art of Racing in the Rain 4.23 avg rating β€” 545,667 ratings
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating β€” 209,868 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone 4.33 avg rating β€” 417,359 ratings
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Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
by: Lee Child
4.08 avg rating β€” 343,579 ratings
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Falling Angels
Falling Angels 3.63 avg rating β€” 26,804 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating β€” 194,442 ratings
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Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions
Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions 3.71 avg rating β€” 817 ratings
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Surfacing
Surfacing 3.45 avg rating β€” 28,050 ratings
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Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas 4.02 avg rating β€” 5,658 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating β€” 93,069 ratings
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1) 3.90 avg rating β€” 214,006 ratings
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Leaving a Doll's House
Leaving a Doll's House 3.26 avg rating β€” 213 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating β€” 436,102 ratings
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What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] 3.74 avg rating β€” 24,742 ratings
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Missing Joseph (Inspector Lynley, #6)
Missing Joseph (Inspector Lynley, #6) 3.95 avg rating β€” 15,220 ratings
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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere 3.50 avg rating β€” 13,501 ratings
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About Looking
About Looking 4.09 avg rating β€” 9,052 ratings
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Digging to America
Digging to America 3.59 avg rating β€” 23,215 ratings
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Being There
Being There 3.86 avg rating β€” 14,755 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) 3.89 avg rating β€” 613,901 ratings
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Losing Battles
Losing Battles 3.61 avg rating β€” 625 ratings
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 3.94 avg rating β€” 50,745 ratings
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Playing for the Ashes (Inspector Lynley, #7)
Playing for the Ashes (Inspector Lynley, #7) 4.06 avg rating β€” 18,056 ratings
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Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4) 3.56 avg rating β€” 52,236 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 4.08 avg rating β€” 465,703 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating β€” 1,160,505 ratings
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Telling the Truth About History
Telling the Truth About History 3.35 avg rating β€” 477 ratings
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Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons 3.66 avg rating β€” 32,318 ratings
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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History
Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History 3.38 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,039 ratings
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Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)
Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2) 3.96 avg rating β€” 260,838 ratings
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Speaking with the Angel
Speaking with the Angel 3.51 avg rating β€” 5,960 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating β€” 10,688 ratings
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures 3.53 avg rating β€” 10,249 ratings
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Practicing History: Selected Essays
Practicing History: Selected Essays 3.96 avg rating β€” 822 ratings
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Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5) 3.89 avg rating β€” 4,148 ratings
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 - 1962
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 - 1962 4.03 avg rating β€” 412 ratings
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Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2) 3.83 avg rating β€” 8,240 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 4.04 avg rating β€” 44,512 ratings
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The Making of the President 1960
The Making of the President 1960 4.15 avg rating β€” 7,922 ratings
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Remembering Laughter
Remembering Laughter 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,980 ratings
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The Waiting Years
The Waiting Years 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,952 ratings
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3) 4.07 avg rating β€” 110,836 ratings
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Censoring an Iranian Love Story
Censoring an Iranian Love Story 3.68 avg rating β€” 2,005 ratings
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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest 4.17 avg rating β€” 397,685 ratings
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself 3.96 avg rating β€” 15,528 ratings
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Driving with Dead People
Driving with Dead People 3.86 avg rating β€” 5,918 ratings
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Loving Women
Loving Women 3.83 avg rating β€” 215 ratings
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One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1) 3.91 avg rating β€” 1,013,586 ratings
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Going to Meet the Man
Going to Meet the Man 4.37 avg rating β€” 8,160 ratings
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Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,508 ratings
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Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life 3.67 avg rating β€” 2,898 ratings
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse 3.31 avg rating β€” 1,665 ratings
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Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating β€” 386,240 ratings
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Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War
Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War 4.11 avg rating β€” 289 ratings
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Housekeeping
Housekeeping 3.81 avg rating β€” 57,345 ratings
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own 3.46 avg rating β€” 9,417 ratings
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Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying 3.47 avg rating β€” 22,979 ratings
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Hunting Badger (Leaphorn & Chee, #14)
Hunting Badger (Leaphorn & Chee, #14) 4.07 avg rating β€” 9,528 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death 4.30 avg rating β€” 45,184 ratings
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs 4.50 avg rating β€” 21,098 ratings
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Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves 3.91 avg rating β€” 28,924 ratings
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
by: Jon Katz
4.13 avg rating β€” 1,896 ratings
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Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myths
Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myths 3.94 avg rating β€” 577 ratings
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood 3.97 avg rating β€” 3,966 ratings
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 3.55 avg rating β€” 16,808 ratings
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The Haunting of Toby Jugg (Black Magic, #3)
The Haunting of Toby Jugg (Black Magic, #3) 3.69 avg rating β€” 638 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating β€” 176,366 ratings
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Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self
Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self 3.70 avg rating β€” 1,482 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating β€” 564,511 ratings
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Keeping Faith
Keeping Faith 3.82 avg rating β€” 88,939 ratings
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Reconstructing Amelia
Reconstructing Amelia 3.83 avg rating β€” 135,336 ratings
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Running Scared (Rarities Unlimited, #2)
Running Scared (Rarities Unlimited, #2) 3.93 avg rating β€” 2,756 ratings
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America 4.03 avg rating β€” 635 ratings
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Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales
Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales 3.24 avg rating β€” 133 ratings
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Saving Fish from Drowning
Saving Fish from Drowning
by: Amy Tan
3.47 avg rating β€” 32,827 ratings
88.
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1) 3.57 avg rating β€” 160,336 ratings
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The Hating Game
The Hating Game 3.86 avg rating β€” 805,261 ratings
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Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2)
Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2) 4.12 avg rating β€” 45,439 ratings
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Stealing Light (The Shoal Sequence, #1)
Stealing Light (The Shoal Sequence, #1) 3.74 avg rating β€” 3,443 ratings
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Looking for Mr. Goodbar 3.67 avg rating β€” 6,674 ratings
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Dying in the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1)
Dying in the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1) 3.60 avg rating β€” 5,924 ratings
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Trading Up
Trading Up 3.28 avg rating β€” 20,565 ratings
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) 4.27 avg rating β€” 656,967 ratings
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Finding Moon
Finding Moon 3.87 avg rating β€” 4,091 ratings
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Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans 3.60 avg rating β€” 157 ratings
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Leaving Atlanta
Leaving Atlanta 4.05 avg rating β€” 6,665 ratings
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Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (The Ralstons, #1)
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (The Ralstons, #1) 4.08 avg rating β€” 59,128 ratings
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