USA TODAY’s best-selling books of last 15 years
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| USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books List Top 150 books of the last 15 years (Oct. 28, 1993 through Oct. 23, 2008) |
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| 1 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling |
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| 2 | Dr. Atkins‘ New Diet Revolution | Robert C. Atkins |
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| 3 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
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| 4 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J.K. Rowling |
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| 5 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | J.K. Rowling |
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| 6 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J.K. Rowling |
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| 7 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling |
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| 8 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling |
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| 9 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling |
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| 10 | Who Moved My Cheese? | Spencer Johnson |
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| 11 | The South Beach Diet | Arthur Agatston |
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| 12 | Tuesdays With Morrie | Mitch Albom |
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| 13 | Angels & Demons | Dan Brown |
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| 14 | What to Expect When You’re Expecting | Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee Hathaway |
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| 15 | The Purpose-Driven Life | Rick Warren |
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| 16 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom |
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| 17 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey |
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| 18 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
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| 19 | Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus | John Gray |
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| 20 | The Secret | Rhonda Byrne |
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| 21 | Rich Dad, Poor Dad | Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter |
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| 22 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
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| 23 | Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff … And It’s All Small Stuff |
Richard Carlson |
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| 24 | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd |
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| 25 | Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| 26 | Twilight | Stephenie Meyer |
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| 27 | The Notebook | Nicholas Sparks |
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| 28 | The Memory Keeper’s Daughter | Kim Edwards |
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| 29 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
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| 30 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
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| 31 | A New Earth | Eckhart Tolle |
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| 32 | Oh, the Places You’ll Go! | Dr. Seuss |
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| 33 | The Four Agreements | Don Miguel Ruiz |
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| 34 | Angela’s Ashes | Frank McCourt |
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| 35 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold |
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| 36 | Body-for-Life | Bill Phillips, Michael D’Orso |
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| 37 | New Moon | Stephenie Meyer |
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| 38 | Night | Elie Wiesel, translations by Marion Wiesel and Stella Rodway |
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| 39 | Chicken Soup for the Soul | Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen |
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| 40 | The Greatest Generation | Tom Brokaw |
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| 41 | Breaking Dawn | Stephenie Meyer |
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| 42 | The Celestine Prophecy | James Redfield |
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| 43 | Wicked | Gregory Maguire |
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| 44 | Good to Great | Jim Collins |
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| 45 | Eclipse | Stephenie Meyer |
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| 46 | Eragon | Christopher Paolini |
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| 47 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Rebecca Wells |
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| 48 | Your Best Life Now | Joel Osteen |
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| 49 | In the Kitchen With Rosie | Rosie Daley |
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| 50 | Simple Abundance | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
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| 51 | A Child Called It | Dave Pelzer |
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| 52 | A Million Little Pieces | James Frey |
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| 53 | The Testament | John Grisham |
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| 54 | Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul | Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger |
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| 55 | Deception Point | Dan Brown |
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| 56 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
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| 57 | Marley & Me | John Grogan |
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| 58 | Dr. Atkins’ New Carbohydrate Gram Counter | Robert C. Atkins |
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| 59 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
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| 60 | The Brethren | John Grisham |
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| 61 | The South Beach Diet Good Fats Good Carbs Guide | Arthur Agatston |
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| 62 | The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town |
John Grisham |
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| 63 | For One More Day | Mitch Albom |
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| 64 | The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg |
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| 65 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| 66 | The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow |
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| 67 | What to Expect the First Year | Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff, Sandee Hathaway |
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| 68 | Love You Forever | Robert Munsch, art by Sheila McGraw |
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| 69 | Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss |
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| 70 | A Painted House | John Grisham |
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| 71 | The Rainmaker | John Grisham |
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| 72 | Skipping Christmas | John Grisham |
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| 73 | Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier |
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| 74 | The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
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| 75 | Life Strategies | Phillip C. McGraw |
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| 76 | Seabiscuit: An American Legend | Laura Hillenbrand |
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| 77 | The Summons | John Grisham |
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| 78 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt |
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| 79 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
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| 80 | The Runaway Jury | John Grisham |
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| 81 | Goodnight Moon Board Book | Margaret Wise Brown, art by Clement Hurd |
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| 82 | The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger |
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| 83 | Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson |
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| 84 | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
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| 85 | Embraced by the Light | Betty J. Eadie |
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| 86 | The Chamber | John Grisham |
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| 87 | You: On A Diet | Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz |
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| 88 | The Prayer of Jabez | Bruce Wilkinson |
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| 89 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
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| 90 | Digital Fortress | Dan Brown |
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| 91 | The Shack | William P. Young |
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| 92 | The Devil Wears Prada | Lauren Weisberger |
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| 93 | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen |
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| 94 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
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| 95 | The Seat of the Soul | Gary Zukav |
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| 96 | Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul | Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Marci Shimoff |
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| 97 | The Partner | John Grisham |
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| 98 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
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| 99 | Eldest: Inheritance, Book II | Christopher Paolini |
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| 100 | The Broker | John Grisham |
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| 101 | The Street Lawyer | John Grisham |
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| 102 | A Series of Unfortunate Events No. 1: The Bad Beginning |
Lemony Snicket |
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| 103 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
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| 104 | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer |
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| 105 | The King of Torts | John Grisham |
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| 106 | The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell |
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| 107 | The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans |
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| 108 | Hannibal | Thomas Harris |
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| 109 | The Audacity of Hope | Barack Obama |
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| 110 | Running With Scissors | Augusten Burroughs |
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| 111 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir | Jeannette Walls |
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| 112 | My Sister’s Keeper | Jodi Picoult |
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| 113 | The Last Juror | John Grisham |
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| 114 | The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson |
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| 115 | Left Behind | Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins |
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| 116 | America (The Book) | Jon Stewart and The Writers of The Daily Show |
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| 117 | The Red Tent | Anita Diamant |
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| 118 | John Adams | David McCullough |
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| 119 | The Christmas Box | Richard Paul Evans |
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| 120 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares |
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| 121 | Sugar Busters! | H. Leighton Steward, Sam S. Andrews, Morrison C. Bethea, Luis A. Balart |
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| 122 | Blink | Malcolm Gladwell |
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| 123 | The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle |
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| 124 | 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life |
Don Piper, Cecil Murphey |
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| 125 | The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien |
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| 126 | 1776 | David McCullough |
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| 127 | The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller |
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| 128 | Where the Heart Is | Billie Letts |
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| 129 | The Ultimate Weight Solution | Phillip C. McGraw |
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| 130 | Protein Power | Michael R. Eades, Mary Dan Eades |
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| 131 | Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul | Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Marci Shimoff |
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| 132 | Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer |
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| 133 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
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| 134 | Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin |
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| 135 | You: The Owner’s Manual | Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz |
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| 136 | 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List |
Patricia Schultz |
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| 137 | Self Matters | Phillip C. McGraw |
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| 138 | She’s Come Undone | Wally Lamb |
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| 139 | 1984 | George Orwell |
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| 140 | The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis |
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| 141 | The Millionaire Next Door | Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko |
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| 142 | The Other Boleyn Girl | Philippa Gregory |
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| 143 | The Zone | Barry Sears, Bill Lawren |
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| 144 | The Pilot’s Wife | Anita Shreve |
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| 145 | The Lost World | Michael Crichton |
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| 146 | Atonement | Ian McEwan |
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| 147 | He’s Just Not That Into You | Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo |
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| 148 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
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| 149 | The World Is Flat | Thomas L. Friedman |
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| 150 | Cross | James Patterson |
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Which books are you surprised to see on the list? Which ones do you think are missing?