Amazing, beautiful, escapist, maybe-you-learn-something-too novels

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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,767 ratings
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Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,578 ratings
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating — 35,959 ratings
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Burial Rites
Burial Rites 4.04 avg rating — 121,025 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,843,138 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees 4.10 avg rating — 1,337,619 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,905,031 ratings
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Alice (The Wanderland Chronicles, #1)
Alice (The Wanderland Chronicles, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 552,044 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,835 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom 4.47 avg rating — 348,543 ratings
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Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner 4.02 avg rating — 20,023 ratings
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The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss 4.26 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
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The Chrysalids
The Chrysalids 3.93 avg rating — 60,791 ratings
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Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist 3.90 avg rating — 1,318 ratings
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Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key 4.18 avg rating — 489,822 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating — 1,682,049 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 56,664 ratings
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The Glass Palace
The Glass Palace really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27,581 ratings
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Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)
Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)
by: Lisa See
4.10 avg rating — 67,694 ratings
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Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by: Lisa See
3.92 avg rating — 160,780 ratings
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The Art of Fielding
The Art of Fielding 3.99 avg rating — 115,140 ratings
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The Paradise Guest House
The Paradise Guest House 3.68 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
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Those Who Save Us
Those Who Save Us 4.11 avg rating — 102,915 ratings
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 80,288 ratings
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Glass Room
Glass Room 3.05 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Ninth Day (The Blue Thread Saga)
The Ninth Day (The Blue Thread Saga) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Enter the Uncreated Night
Enter the Uncreated Night 3.49 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers 4.56 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Where the River Ends
Where the River Ends 4.19 avg rating — 11,510 ratings
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Beyond the Ghetto Gates
Beyond the Ghetto Gates 4.03 avg rating — 524 ratings
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March
March 3.81 avg rating — 76,178 ratings
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Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Under the Wide and Starry Sky 3.61 avg rating — 18,809 ratings
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The Round House
The Round House 3.98 avg rating — 122,374 ratings
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The Pirate's Daughter
The Pirate's Daughter 3.50 avg rating — 2,777 ratings
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Ann Marie's Asylum (Master and Apprentice, #1)
Ann Marie's Asylum (Master and Apprentice, #1) 3.48 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans 4.04 avg rating — 473,502 ratings
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The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch 3.96 avg rating — 1,010,709 ratings
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The White
The White 3.42 avg rating — 1,305 ratings
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The Tortilla Curtain
The Tortilla Curtain 3.66 avg rating — 34,025 ratings
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The Secret World of Polly Flint
The Secret World of Polly Flint 3.97 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Creating Monsters
Creating Monsters 3.60 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 238,011 ratings
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We Never Asked for Wings
We Never Asked for Wings 3.84 avg rating — 20,128 ratings
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late 4.22 avg rating — 1,898 ratings
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Radiance of Tomorrow
Radiance of Tomorrow 3.86 avg rating — 4,673 ratings
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The Night Watch
The Night Watch 3.71 avg rating — 32,763 ratings
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A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2)
A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2) 3.95 avg rating — 59,189 ratings
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Water from My Heart
Water from My Heart 4.52 avg rating — 16,990 ratings
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
Women Who Run With the Wolves 4.11 avg rating — 90,577 ratings
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Greenmantle
Greenmantle 4.01 avg rating — 3,414 ratings
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter 4.09 avg rating — 19,034 ratings
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Fruit of the Drunken Tree 3.95 avg rating — 19,351 ratings
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Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)
Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6) 4.36 avg rating — 94,557 ratings
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Moonheart
Moonheart 4.05 avg rating — 6,715 ratings
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Secrets She Kept
Secrets She Kept 4.31 avg rating — 3,928 ratings
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A Single Thread
A Single Thread 3.75 avg rating — 32,361 ratings
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The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #5)
The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #5) 4.23 avg rating — 93,331 ratings
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The House at Riverton
The House at Riverton 3.95 avg rating — 123,472 ratings
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The Gates of Ivory
The Gates of Ivory 3.78 avg rating — 421 ratings
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A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4)
A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4) 4.21 avg rating — 105,490 ratings
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Blackberry Wine
Blackberry Wine 3.84 avg rating — 16,611 ratings
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Running the Rift
Running the Rift 3.97 avg rating — 7,192 ratings
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The Island
The Island 4.12 avg rating — 58,374 ratings
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Small Great Things
Small Great Things 4.36 avg rating — 424,056 ratings
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The Great Alone
The Great Alone really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by: Anne Rice
4.02 avg rating — 633,915 ratings
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The Promise Between Us
The Promise Between Us 4.09 avg rating — 2,067 ratings
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The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3)
The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 113,803 ratings
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The Beach
The Beach 3.98 avg rating — 94,578 ratings
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A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)
A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 139,040 ratings
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Memory Keeper's Daughter 3.70 avg rating — 609,259 ratings
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Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 1,762,524 ratings
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The Storyteller
The Storyteller 4.30 avg rating — 264,445 ratings
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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now 3.65 avg rating — 1,921 ratings
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The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,402,658 ratings
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A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces 3.89 avg rating — 291,819 ratings
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Sweetness in the Belly
Sweetness in the Belly 3.91 avg rating — 9,462 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World 4.20 avg rating — 87,501 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,342 ratings
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State of Wonder
State of Wonder 3.90 avg rating — 197,576 ratings
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The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers 3.85 avg rating — 101,552 ratings
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Bel Canto
Bel Canto 3.94 avg rating — 312,449 ratings
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Run
Run 3.67 avg rating — 54,871 ratings
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The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles 3.61 avg rating — 15,964 ratings
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A Game of Thrones #1
A Game of Thrones #1 4.61 avg rating — 117,110 ratings
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The Red Tent
The Red Tent 4.20 avg rating — 624,048 ratings
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Shalimar
Shalimar 3.83 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Many Sparrows
Many Sparrows 4.43 avg rating — 930 ratings
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When Crickets Cry
When Crickets Cry 4.38 avg rating — 63,302 ratings