Please select all titles that you'd recommend that UoA's Book Club reads in the Fiction genre (highest number of votes win) - please look up on goodreads for summaries if unsure.

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1984 by George Orwell — 3.8% (14 votes)

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood — 3.5% (13 votes)

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak — 3.5% (13 votes)

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller — 3.5% (13 votes)

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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness — 3.3% (12 votes)

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His Dark Materials: A Trilogy by Philip Pullman — 2.7% (10 votes)

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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut — 2.4% (9 votes)

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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut — 2.4% (9 votes)

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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern — 2.4% (9 votes)

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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell — 2.4% (9 votes)

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The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling — 2.2% (8 votes)

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Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov — 2.2% (8 votes)

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — 2.2% (8 votes)

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon — 2.2% (8 votes)

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The Body by Stephen King — 2.2% (8 votes)

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Lord of the Rings: A Trilogy by J R R Tolkein — 2.2% (8 votes)

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr — 2.2% (8 votes)

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The Princess Bride by William Goldman — 2.2% (8 votes)

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Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey — 1.9% (7 votes)

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An Abundance of Katherines by John Green — 1.9% (7 votes)

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A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin — 1.9% (7 votes)

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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — 1.9% (7 votes)

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I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak — 1.9% (7 votes)

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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka — 1.9% (7 votes)

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A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel by Marlon James — 1.9% (7 votes)

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Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — 1.6% (6 votes)

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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss — 1.6% (6 votes)

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The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft — 1.6% (6 votes)

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy — 1.6% (6 votes)

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Wheel of Time: A Series by Robert Jordan — 1.4% (5 votes)

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The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson — 1.4% (5 votes)

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Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb — 1.1% (4 votes)

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In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Hilbrick — 1.1% (4 votes)

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — 1.1% (4 votes)

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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky — 1.1% (4 votes)

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Infinite Jest by Robert Foster Wallace — 1.1% (4 votes)

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky — 1.1% (4 votes)

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Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous — 1.1% (4 votes)

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Discontent and its Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid — 1.1% (4 votes)

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Through the Eyes of a Foster Child by Daryl Brougham — 1.1% (4 votes)

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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín — 0.8% (3 votes)

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Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert — 0.8% (3 votes)

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Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashares — 0.8% (3 votes)

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The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin — 0.8% (3 votes)

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The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson — 0.8% (3 votes)

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After Many A Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley — 0.8% (3 votes)

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy — 0.8% (3 votes)

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Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes — 0.8% (3 votes)

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A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif — 0.8% (3 votes)

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A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley — 0.5% (2 votes)

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Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden — 0.5% (2 votes)

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom — 0.5% (2 votes)

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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini — 0.5% (2 votes)

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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr — 0.5% (2 votes)

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A Passage to India by E M Forster — 0.5% (2 votes)

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Beowulf by Unknown — 0.5% (2 votes)

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan — 0.5% (2 votes)

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Every Day by David Levithan — 0.5% (2 votes)

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My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout — 0.5% (2 votes)

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The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami — 0.5% (2 votes)

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I Am China by Xiaolu Guo — 0.5% (2 votes)

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The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu — 0.5% (2 votes)

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Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri — 0.5% (2 votes)

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Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang — 0.3% (1 votes)

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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World by Paul Collins — 0.3% (1 votes)

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The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton — 0.3% (1 votes)

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Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin — 0.3% (1 votes)

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I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven — 0.3% (1 votes)

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Franny and Zooey by J D Salinger — 0.3% (1 votes)

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How Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky — 0.3% (1 votes)

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Shorter, Lighter, Cheaper, Faster, Denser by Robert Bryce — 0.3% (1 votes)

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Solaris by Stanislaw Lem — 0.3% (1 votes)

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer — 0.3% (1 votes)

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The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot — 0.3% (1 votes)

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The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma — 0.3% (1 votes)

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The Water Will Catch You by Chase Potter — 0.3% (1 votes)

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The Sellout by Paul Beatty — 0.3% (1 votes)

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Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters — 0.3% (1 votes)

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The Night Stages by Jane Urquhart — 0.3% (1 votes)

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The Two Krishnas by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla — 0.3% (1 votes)

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To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey — 0.3% (1 votes)

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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas — 0.3% (1 votes)

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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust — 0% (0 votes)

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Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch — 0% (0 votes)

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The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto — 0% (0 votes)

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The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni — 0% (0 votes)

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Goodnight Mr Tom — 0% (0 votes)

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A court of thorns and roses/ a court of mist and fury — 0% (0 votes)

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The Hunger games — 0% (0 votes)

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Gone With the Wind — 0% (0 votes)

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