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Highly Rated Fiction (Before 2010)

Fiction, published before 2010 rated 4.0 or higher on Hardcover, from at least 300 ratings. Leaves out young adult and children's titles, omnibus editions, and books that are not the first in their series.

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100 Years Of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

4.1 Hardcover · 755 ratings

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1984

George Orwell

4.2 Hardcover · 9,238 ratings

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A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

4.1 Hardcover · 1,320 ratings

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A Game Of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition

George R. R. Martin

5.0 Google

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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

4.1 Hardcover · 1,188 ratings

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All Quiet On The Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

4.2 Hardcover · 1,044 ratings

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All The Pretty Horses

Cormac Mccarthy

4.1 Hardcover · 370 ratings

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Altered Carbon

Richard K. Morgan

4.0 Hardcover · 1,006 ratings

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American Gods

Neil Gaiman

4.0 Hardcover · 3,407 ratings

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Anathem

Neal Stephenson

4.2 Hardcover · 643 ratings

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

4.1 Hardcover · 7,134 ratings

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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

4.0 Hardcover · 1,010 ratings

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Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness In The West

Cormac Mccarthy

4.1 Hardcover · 879 ratings

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Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.1 Hardcover · 1,468 ratings

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Catch 22

Heller, Joseph

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Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clarke

4.0 Hardcover · 906 ratings

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City Of Thieves

David Benioff

4.3 Hardcover · 368 ratings

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Crime And Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.3 Hardcover · 2,118 ratings

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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick

4.0 Hardcover · 2,384 ratings

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East Of Eden

John Steinbeck

4.5 Hardcover · 1,147 ratings

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Elantris

Brandon Sanderson

4.1 Hardcover · 2,386 ratings

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Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

4.1 Hardcover · 1,615 ratings

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Flowers For Algernon

Daniel Keyes

4.3 Hardcover · 2,463 ratings

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Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)

James Baldwin

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Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

4.1 Hardcover · 3,064 ratings

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Good Omens: The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Neil Gaiman

4.2 Hardcover · 2,862 ratings

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His Majesty's Dragon

Naomi Novik

4.0 Hardcover · 564 ratings

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House Of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

4.1 Hardcover · 888 ratings

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Hyperion

Dan Simmons

4.3 Hardcover · 2,118 ratings

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

4.2 Hardcover · 1,193 ratings

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I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

4.1 Hardcover · 1,586 ratings

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Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

4.3 Hardcover · 419 ratings

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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

Michael Crichton

4.1 Hardcover · 929 ratings

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Kindred

Octavia Butler

4.3 Hardcover · 830 ratings

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Leviathan Wakes

James S.A. Corey

4.3 Hardcover · 2,994 ratings

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Lonesome Dove

Larry Mcmurtry

4.6 Hardcover · 572 ratings

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Misery

Stephen King

4.1 Hardcover · 1,492 ratings

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Mother Night

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.2 Hardcover · 418 ratings

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Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

4.1 Hardcover · 1,853 ratings

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No Country For Old Men

Cormac Mccarthy

4.1 Hardcover · 680 ratings

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Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

4.0 Hardcover · 1,560 ratings

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Notes From Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.1 Hardcover · 734 ratings

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Old Man's War (old Man's War, #1)

John Scalzi

4.1 Hardcover · 686 ratings

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Pandora's Star

Peter F. Hamilton

4.2 Hardcover · 525 ratings

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Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier

4.1 Hardcover · 922 ratings

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Rendezvous With Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

4.0 Hardcover · 1,152 ratings

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Replay

Ken Grimwood

4.1 Hardcover · 302 ratings

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Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane

4.1 Hardcover · 409 ratings

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Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

4.0 Hardcover · 1,662 ratings

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Slaughterhouse-five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.1 Hardcover · 3,377 ratings

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Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

4.1 Hardcover · 1,976 ratings

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Spin

Robert Charles Wilson

4.1 Hardcover · 398 ratings

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Stoner

John Williams

4.4 Hardcover · 888 ratings

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Stories Of Your Life And Others

Ted Chiang

4.2 Hardcover · 1,065 ratings

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The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

4.3 Hardcover · 509 ratings

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The Art Of Racing In The Rain

Garth Stein

4.1 Hardcover · 396 ratings

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The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie

4.1 Hardcover · 2,196 ratings

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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.0 Hardcover · 416 ratings

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.4 Hardcover · 803 ratings

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The Color Purple

Alice Walker

4.2 Hardcover · 811 ratings

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The Death Of Ivan Ilych

Leo Tolstoy

4.1 Hardcover · 721 ratings

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The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson

4.2 Hardcover · 655 ratings

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The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

4.0 Hardcover · 1,117 ratings

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The Godfather

Mario Puzo

4.4 Hardcover · 756 ratings

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The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer

4.0 Hardcover · 519 ratings

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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

4.1 Hardcover · 3,638 ratings

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The Help

Kathryn Stockett

4.2 Hardcover · 1,220 ratings

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The Importance Of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

4.2 Hardcover · 702 ratings

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The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

4.2 Hardcover · 2,388 ratings

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The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell

4.2 Hardcover · 312 ratings

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The Last Wish

Andrzej Sapkowski

4.1 Hardcover · 2,328 ratings

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The Lathe Of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin

4.1 Hardcover · 582 ratings

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The Lies Of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch

4.3 Hardcover · 1,969 ratings

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The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

4.0 Hardcover · 1,030 ratings

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The Name Of The Rose

Umberto Eco

4.1 Hardcover · 839 ratings

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The Name Of The Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

4.5 Hardcover · 3,930 ratings

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The Pillars Of The Earth

Ken Follett

4.2 Hardcover · 1,137 ratings

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

4.0 Hardcover · 515 ratings

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The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

4.1 Hardcover · 366 ratings

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The Remains Of The Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.2 Hardcover · 874 ratings

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The Road

Cormac Mccarthy

4.0 Hardcover · 2,627 ratings

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The Secret History: A Read With Jenna Pick

Donna Tartt

4.0 Google

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The Shadow Of The Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

4.2 Hardcover · 1,266 ratings

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The Shining

Stephen King

4.2 Hardcover · 2,526 ratings

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The Sirens Of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut

4.0 Hardcover · 649 ratings

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The Stand

Stephen King

4.2 Hardcover · 1,915 ratings

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The Three-body Problem

Liu Cixin

4.0 Hardcover · 3,888 ratings

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The Warded Man: Book One Of The Demon Cycle

Peter V. Brett

4.2 Hardcover · 627 ratings

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The Way Of Shadows

Brent Weeks

4.1 Hardcover · 731 ratings

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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

4.0 Hardcover · 916 ratings

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The Witches

Roald Dahl

4.0 Hardcover · 575 ratings

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Ubik

Philip K. Dick

4.1 Hardcover · 748 ratings

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War And Peace

Leo Tolstoy

4.1 Hardcover · 543 ratings

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Where The Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

4.2 Hardcover · 826 ratings

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