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Andrew Sean Greer

2017 ★ 3.8

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

2000 ★ 4.3

Finding Winnie

Lindsay Mattick

2015 ★ 4.8

The Finkler question

Howard Jacobson

2010

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

2000 ★ 3.7

Humboldt's Gift

Saul Bellow

1973 ★ 3.8

Possession

A. S. Byatt

1990 ★ 3.6

The sea

John Banville

2005 ★ 3.5

Regeneration

Pat Barker

1991 ★ 4.2

Heartburn

Nora Ephron

1984 ★ 3.7

Camino Island

John Grisham

2017 ★ 3.1

The First Four Years

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1953 ★ 3.7

10:04

Ben Lerner

2014 ★ 3.8

The forbidden wife

Sharon Kendrick

2011 ★ 3.0

Martin Eden

Jack London

1908 ★ 3.8

The Guest Cat

Takashi Hiraide

2014 ★ 4.8

Before I Go to Sleep

S. J. Watson

2011 ★ 4.0

While my pretty one sleeps

Mary Higgins Clark

1989 ★ 3.4

A Winter Haunting

Dan Simmons

2002 ★ 4.0

Heart of Ice

Diana Palmer

1984 ★ 4.6

The History of Love

Nicole Krauss

2005 ★ 3.4

'Salem’s Lot

Stephen King

1975 ★ 4.0

Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock

1818 ★ 2.7

Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley

1948 ★ 3.7

The Hill of Dreams

Arthur Machen

1907 ★ 3.7

Beatrice and Virgil

Yann Martel

2010 ★ 3.2

Lemony Snicket

2002 ★ 4.4

La sombra del viento

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

2003 ★ 4.3

Cakes and Ale or The skeleton in the cupboard

William Somerset Maugham

1970 ★ 3.5

Crossing to Safety

Wallace Stegner

1988 ★ 2.3

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