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#30London Falling
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#31Anatomy of an Alibi
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#32The Enigma Challenge
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#33Happy Ending
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#34The Calamities
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#35The One Day You Were My Husband
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#36The Burning Side
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#37Before You Were Anne
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#38When Lemons Give You Life
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#39When the Cranes Fly South
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#40You With the Sad Eyes
Christina Applegate
#41Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Colleen Oakley
#42Starside
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#43Broken Dove
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#44People We Meet on Vacation
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#45Last One Out
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#46The Amateur
Chris Bohjalian
#47Sublimation
Isabel J. Kim
#48Read Your Mind
Oz Pearlman
#49Meredith, Alone
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#50The Ending Writes Itself
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#51The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
India Hayford
#52The Book Witch
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#53Life, and Death, and Giants
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#54Under the Falls
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#55Crux
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#56Crooks
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#57This Book Made Me Think of You
Libby Page
#58The Adventures of Juan Planchard
Jonathan Jakubowicz
#59The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout
#60Habits of the Sea
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#61Lake Effect
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#62We Burned So Bright
TJ Klune
#63The Toll
Neal Shusterman
#64Detour
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#66The Night Hunter
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#67American Fantasy
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#68The Shampoo Effect
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#69The Midnight Train
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#70The List of Suspicious Things
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