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Miranda Raison narrates Lessons in Chemistry with a crisp, slightly formal delivery that gives the 1960s setting its due while letting the comedy breathe — the book's satirical edge lands because Raison never winks at it, she just states it. The 12-hour runtime is well-paced for a novel that's doing several things at once. Every single title on this list has earned its ratings, with four of them picking up awards along the way.

10 books for fans of Lessons in Chemistry

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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban cover

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Harry Potter • Book 3

    by J.K. Rowling

    4.58 Goodreads (4.9M ratings)
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    Sunrise on the Reaping cover

    Sunrise on the Reaping

    The Hunger Games

    by Suzanne Collins

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    Follow teenage Haymitch Abernathy into the arena during the second Quarter Quell, where the Capitol's twisted anniversary celebration doubles the death toll.

    4.50 Goodreads (1.1M ratings)
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    A Thousand Splendid Suns cover

    A Thousand Splendid Suns

    by Khaled Hosseini

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    Hosseini traces Afghanistan's tumultuous history through Mariam and Laila, whose friendship becomes their lifeline through Taliban rule and personal tragedy.

    4.46 Goodreads (1.8M ratings)
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    The Hate U Give

    The Hate U Give • Book 1

    by Angie Thomas

    4.45 Goodreads (1.0M ratings)
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    The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell cover

    The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

    by Robert Dugoni

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    Sam Hill's rare condition that gives him red pupils makes him an outcast, but with support from his devout mother, practical father, and two misfit friends, he learns to see differently.

    4.45 Goodreads (230.8K ratings)
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    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    by Shelby Van Pelt

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    What starts as a widow's late-night cleaning job at an aquarium becomes something unexpectedly profound when she connects with a giant Pacific octopus who might hold clues to her son's disappearance.

    4.36 Goodreads (1.3M ratings)
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    My Friends

    by Fredrik Backman

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    Four teenagers forge a friendship so powerful it reaches across twenty-five years to transform a complete stranger's life in ways none of them could imagine.

    4.36 Goodreads (413.4K ratings)
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    The Hunger Games cover

    The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games • Book 1

    by Suzanne Collins

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    Collins weaponizes reality TV into a chilling portrait of inequality, where teenagers fight to the death for entertainment and bread.

    4.35 Goodreads (10.0M ratings)
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    Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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    A physics professor leaves academia to become one of NASA's first female astronauts, trading telescopes for shuttles in pursuit of the cosmos she's studied from afar.

    4.33 Goodreads (758.2K ratings)
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    The Chosen: I Have Called You By Name cover

    The Chosen: I Have Called You By Name

    The Chosen • Book 1

    by Jerry B. Jenkins

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    Rather than retelling familiar Gospel events, Jenkins imagines the raw human experience of meeting Jesus and having your worldview completely overturned.

    4.67 Goodreads (1.7K ratings)