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The Godfather

Mario Puzo

1969 ★ 4.3

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

1862 ★ 4.3

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

1839 ★ 4.1

Bare bones

Kathy Reichs

2003 ★ 4.3

Bank Shot

Donald E. Westlake

1972 ★ 4.7

Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code

Eoin Colfer

2003 ★ 4.2

Be Cool

Elmore Leonard

1999 ★ 3.0

Dog Man Unleashed

Dav Pilkey

2017 ★ 4.0

The Last Don

Mario Puzo

1996 ★ 3.8

The Stranger Beside Me

Ann Rule

1981 ★ 4.2

Sidney Sheldon's Reckless

Tilly Bagshawe

2015 ★ 5.0

Gone for Good

Harlan Coben

2002 ★ 3.8

Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex

Eoin Colfer

2010 ★ 3.8

Drive

James Sallis

2005 ★ 2.8

System of the World

Neal Stephenson

2004 ★ 4.0

The Great Train Robbery

Michael Crichton

1975 ★ 3.8

Death Note, Vol. 10

Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba

2007 ★ 4.0

Tsotsi

Athol Fugard

1980 ★ 3.5

Life at the Bottom

Theodore Dalrymple

2001 ★ 4.1

Night Boat To Tangier

Kevin Barry

2019 ★ 3.9

The Guv'nor

Lenny McLean

2002 ★ 4.7

The Ship of Adventure

Enid Blyton

1969 ★ 4.3

The Wide Window

Brett Helquist, Michael Kupperman, Lemony Snicket et al.

2000 ★ 4.0

Payback

Gordon Korman

2017 ★ 5.0

Utopia

Lincoln Child

2002 ★ 3.2

Five Go Off in a Caravan

Enid Blyton

1952 ★ 4.5

Saturday

Ian McEwan

2005 ★ 3.7

Prodigy

Marie Lu

2012 ★ 4.3

Last Night in Twisted River

John Irving

2009 ★ 4.0

Trouble will find you

Joan M. Lexau

1994 ★ 4.1

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