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The Snowy Day

Shang yi bian ji bu, Ezra Jack Keats, Marilyn Sanabria

1962 ★ 4.3

Sula

Toni Morrison

1974 ★ 3.8

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

1979

Perdido Street Station

China Miéville

2001 ★ 4.0

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

2001 ★ 3.8

Dear Life

Alice Munro

2012 ★ 3.8

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

2002 ★ 4.2

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

1922 ★ 3.8

Dead end in Norvelt

Jack Gantos

2011

Olive Kitteridge

Rosa Perez Perez, Elizabeth Strout

2008 ★ 4.3

The Little House

Virginia Lee Burton

1969 ★ 4.4

Paradise

Toni Morrison

1997

Heidi

Spyri, Johanna

1899 ★ 4.0

Dubliners

James Joyce

1914 ★ 3.9

Middlemarch

George Eliot

1871 ★ 4.2

Southern bastards

Jason Aaron

2014 ★ 4.0

Cahier des charges de La vie

Georges Perec, Josep Escué

1987 ★ 4.6

War for the Oaks

Emma Bull

2001 ★ 4.0

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Hubert Selby, Jr., Hubert Selby Jr.

1965 ★ 4.5

Boy, Snow, Bird

Helen Oyeyemi

2014 ★ 3.7

1632

Eric Flint

2000 ★ 4.0

よつばと! 9

あずまきよひこ

2010 ★ 4.5

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain

1894 ★ 3.2

Mr. Sammler's Planet

Saul Bellow

1976 ★ 3.7

Southern Bastards

Jason Aaron

2015 ★ 4.3

'Salem’s Lot

Stephen King

1975 ★ 4.0

Bandits

Elmore Leonard

1987 ★ 3.0

The Main Attraction

Jayne Ann Krentz

1987 ★ 3.3

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern (A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit)

Lilian Jackson Braun

1986 ★ 4.2

Zero Day

David Baldacci

2011 ★ 4.3

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