Books I Suggested My Adult Children Read (along with everybody else!)

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Wild Awake
Wild Awake 3.59 avg rating — 3,767 ratings
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 7,126,271 ratings
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Sacajawea
Sacajawea 4.25 avg rating — 16,317 ratings
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America 4.46 avg rating — 671 ratings
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The Thanksgiving Visitor
The Thanksgiving Visitor 4.12 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
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Better Than Chocolate (Life in Icicle Falls, #1)
Better Than Chocolate (Life in Icicle Falls, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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Queen
Queen 4.24 avg rating — 3,194 ratings
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Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed 3.86 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,350 ratings
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Kim's Story: Murder in the Everglades (The Everglades Series, #1)
Kim's Story: Murder in the Everglades (The Everglades Series, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 83,236 ratings
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
Other Voices, Other Rooms 3.75 avg rating — 17,277 ratings
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Ordinary Grace
Ordinary Grace 4.27 avg rating — 183,930 ratings
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Mythology
Mythology 4.03 avg rating — 58,933 ratings
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The Patriot Paradox (The Reluctant Hero Series - Book 1)
The Patriot Paradox (The Reluctant Hero Series - Book 1) 3.94 avg rating — 819 ratings
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A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories
A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories 4.16 avg rating — 7,982 ratings
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Greely's Cove
Greely's Cove 3.67 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Complete Stories and Poems
The Complete Stories and Poems 4.40 avg rating — 291,484 ratings
116.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,424 ratings
120.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles 4.16 avg rating — 279,638 ratings
120.
Stiletto Safari (Stiletto Series, #1)
Stiletto Safari (Stiletto Series, #1)
by: Kate Metz
3.52 avg rating — 454 ratings
120.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,334 ratings
120.
Bitten (Otherworld, #1)
Bitten (Otherworld, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 105,143 ratings
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The Undiscovered Novelist
The Undiscovered Novelist 3.40 avg rating — 48 ratings
124.
’Salem’s Lot
’Salem’s Lot 4.10 avg rating — 636,677 ratings
126.
I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood 3.73 avg rating — 3,963 ratings
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At the Gates of Walhalla
At the Gates of Walhalla 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Stand
The Stand 4.35 avg rating — 814,330 ratings
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Skinny Dip (Skink, #5; Mick Stranahan #2)
Skinny Dip (Skink, #5; Mick Stranahan #2) 3.84 avg rating — 47,181 ratings
129.
Blood Cell
Blood Cell 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
129.
Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 251,992 ratings
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Fire Mage (Blacklight Chronicles, #1)
Fire Mage (Blacklight Chronicles, #1) 3.49 avg rating — 1,993 ratings
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The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph
The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph 3.85 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Prepare
Prepare 4.15 avg rating — 331 ratings
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The Jack Vance Treasury
The Jack Vance Treasury 4.19 avg rating — 616 ratings
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Visiting Hours
Visiting Hours 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
137.
Blackberry Summer (Hope's Crossing, #1)
Blackberry Summer (Hope's Crossing, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 5,870 ratings
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The Pearl
The Pearl 3.56 avg rating — 261,797 ratings
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Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, #1)
Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 9,278 ratings
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House of Evil and Other Unsolved Mysteries
House of Evil and Other Unsolved Mysteries 3.49 avg rating — 37 ratings
141.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 59,126 ratings
141.
20th Century Ghosts
20th Century Ghosts
by: Joe Hill
3.90 avg rating — 46,893 ratings
143.
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72 4.43 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
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Halloween (Halloween #1)
Halloween (Halloween #1) 4.15 avg rating — 8,836 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age 3.83 avg rating — 12,692 ratings
145.
The Fog
The Fog 3.84 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Joy in the Morning
Joy in the Morning 3.93 avg rating — 8,760 ratings
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A Stolen Life
A Stolen Life 3.96 avg rating — 141,498 ratings
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The Persian Expedition
The Persian Expedition
by: Xenophon
4.12 avg rating — 9,589 ratings
149.
Over the Top
Over the Top 3.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 93,092 ratings
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Overdue
Overdue 3.80 avg rating — 508 ratings
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The Kalispell Run (Endworld, #4)
The Kalispell Run (Endworld, #4) 3.93 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Twin Cities Run (Endworld, #3)
Twin Cities Run (Endworld, #3) 3.89 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 13,123 ratings
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Ahead of Time
Ahead of Time 3.68 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Mystery of the Witches' Bridge
Mystery of the Witches' Bridge 4.29 avg rating — 295 ratings
158.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,177 ratings
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Therapy
Therapy 4.16 avg rating — 41,473 ratings
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With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln 4.27 avg rating — 8,620 ratings
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr. 4.44 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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Thief River Falls Run (Endworld, #2)
Thief River Falls Run (Endworld, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Mommy's Little Girl
Mommy's Little Girl 3.91 avg rating — 1,853 ratings
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The Green Odyssey
The Green Odyssey 3.52 avg rating — 719 ratings
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The Mabinogion Tetralogy
The Mabinogion Tetralogy 4.23 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
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Disillusioned (Stan Turner, #9)
Disillusioned (Stan Turner, #9) 3.53 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Ill Met in Lankhmar (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1-2)
Ill Met in Lankhmar (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1-2) 4.15 avg rating — 2,966 ratings
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Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4)
Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) 3.75 avg rating — 1,832,683 ratings
169.
The Fox Run (Endworld, #1)
The Fox Run (Endworld, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 338 ratings
170.
Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances
Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances 3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings
170.
Girls In Love
Girls In Love 3.51 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 29,362 ratings
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Shaft
Shaft 3.48 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Not Without My Daughter: The Harrowing True Story of a Mother's Courage
Not Without My Daughter: The Harrowing True Story of a Mother's Courage 4.18 avg rating — 37,745 ratings
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Death Be Not Proud
Death Be Not Proud 3.86 avg rating — 12,769 ratings
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Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football
Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football 4.32 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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Book of Horrors (Nightmare Hall, #16)
Book of Horrors (Nightmare Hall, #16)
by: Diane Hoh
3.60 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America 4.20 avg rating — 568 ratings
178.
The Dollhouse Murders
The Dollhouse Murders 3.99 avg rating — 9,665 ratings
180.
The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman
The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 115 ratings
180.
The Haunted: One Family's Nightmare (Ed & Lorraine Warren, #3)
The Haunted: One Family's Nightmare (Ed & Lorraine Warren, #3) 3.90 avg rating — 3,160 ratings
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s 4.37 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Spook Night
Spook Night 3.33 avg rating — 163 ratings
184.
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s 4.38 avg rating — 486 ratings
184.
Deadly Night (Flynn Brothers, #1)
Deadly Night (Flynn Brothers, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 7,856 ratings
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In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder
In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder 4.08 avg rating — 314 ratings
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American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956: The Space Merchants / More Than Human / The Long Tomorrow / The Shrinking Man
American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956: The Space Merchants / More Than Human / The Long Tomorrow / The Shrinking Man 3.96 avg rating — 127 ratings
188.
House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying
House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying
by: John Dean
3.76 avg rating — 2,624 ratings
188.
American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956–1958: Double Star / The Stars My Destination / A Case of Conscience / Who? / The Big Time
American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956–1958: Double Star / The Stars My Destination / A Case of Conscience / Who? / The Big Time 4.01 avg rating — 106 ratings
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True Stories of Law & Order: SVU: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show
True Stories of Law & Order: SVU: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show 3.81 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Silent Witness: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death
Silent Witness: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death 3.28 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door
by: Roy Wenzl
4.04 avg rating — 9,108 ratings
192.
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
American Gods (American Gods, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 978,809 ratings
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Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?
Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley? 3.90 avg rating — 5,992 ratings
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The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy
The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Fan
The Fan 3.79 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Apache Devil
Apache Devil 3.79 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Fortress
Fortress 3.41 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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The Burning Bed: The True Story of an Abused Wife
The Burning Bed: The True Story of an Abused Wife 4.27 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
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