Eitanli/goodreads huggingface dataset:
The Skin I'm In
by Sharon G. Flake
Genres: Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Fiction, African American, Middle Grade, Contemporary, Coming Of Age
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.16

Miss Saunders, whose skin is blotched with a rare skin condition, serves as a mirror to Maleeka Madison's struggle against the burden of low self-esteem that many black girls face when they're darker skinned. Miss Saunders is tough and through this, Maleeka learns to stand up to tough-talking Charlese.
The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
by Michael Scott
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Mythology, Adventure, Middle Grade
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.86

Read the first book in the New York Times bestselling The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, perfect for fans of The Maze Runner and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.He holds the secret that can end the world.The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life.The records show that he died in 1418.But his tomb is empty.The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects—the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That's exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won't know what's happening until it's too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.Sometimes legends are true.And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.

Praise for The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series:

The Alchemyst[STAR] “[A] A riveting fantasy…While there is plenty here to send readers rushing to their encyclopedias…those who read the book at face value will simply be caught up in the enthralling story. A fabulous read.”—School Library Journal, Starred  The Magician[STAR] “Readers will be swept up by a plot that moves smartly along, leaving a wide trailer of destruction and well-timed revelations.”—Kirkus Reveiws, Starred  The Sorceress“Master yarnspinner that he is, Scott expertly cranks up the suspense while keeping his now-large cast in quick motion….This page –turner promises plenty of action to come.”—
Kirkus Reviews
  The Necromancer“Unrelenting forward momentum….This book will thrill fans.”—
School Library Journal
How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton
Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Self Help, Biography, Literature, Essays, Psychology
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.76

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of 
In Search of Lost Time
 (while bedridden, no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work—his fiction, letter, and conversations—and distills from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.Here, tendered in prose almost as luminous as it’s subject’s, is advice on cultivating friendships, suffering successfully, recognizing love and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on the first date. And here, too, is a generously perceptive literary biography that suggests that the master is as relevant today as he was in fin de siècle Paris. At once slyly ironic and genuinely wise, 
How Proust Can Change Your Life
 is an unqualified delight.
Lost in Time (Blue Bloods, #6)
by Melissa de la Cruz
Genres: Vampires, Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Angels, Romance, Paranormal Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.04

The stakes have never been higher for the young Blue Bloods of Manhattan. After their brief yet beautiful bonding ceremony in Italy, Schuyler Van Alen and Jack Force depart for Egypt, desperate to find the elusive Gate of Promise before Jack must face his twin, Mimi, for a blood trial. A blood trial that only one of them can survive. But everything Schuyler thought she knew about the gate turns out to be a lie, and they soon find themselves ensnared in a deadly battle against the demon-born. Schuyler and Jack take up arms, only to realize that there is a much graver threat simmering in the Kingdom of the Dead.Meanwhile, determined to save the only vampire she still loves, Mimi has followed Kingsley Martin into Hell. With the help of her new human Conduit, Oliver Hazard-Perry, Mimi makes a bargain with the Queen of the Dead that she may soon regret. When the time comes to choose between love and revenge, both Mimi and Oliver will learn the true meaning of sacrifice.Confronted by danger, betrayal, and loss at every turn, the Blue Bloods must find the will to fight - and love - another day.
Tarantula
by Bob Dylan
Genres: Poetry, Music, Fiction, American, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Classics
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.26

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE  Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique insight into Dylan's creative evolution. It captures Bob Dylan's preoccupations at a crucial juncture in his artistic development, showcasing the imagination of a folk poet laureate who was able to combine the humanity and compassion of his country roots with the playful surrealism of modern art. Angry, funny, and strange, the poems and prose in this collection reflect the concerns found in Dylan's most seminal music: a sense of protest, a verbal playfulness and spontaneity, and a belief in the artistic legitimacy of chronicling everyday life and eccentricity on the street.
Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
by Zainab Salbi
Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, History, Politics, Biography Memoir, Feminism
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.23

Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying yes. Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her. Learn to erase your memories, she instructed. He can read eyes.In this richly visual memoir, Salbi describes tyranny as she saw it--through the eyes of a privileged child, a rebellious teenager, a violated wife, and ultimately a public figure fighting to overcome the skill that once kept her alive: silence.Between Two Worlds is a riveting quest for truth that deepens our understanding of the universal themes of power, fear, sexual subjugation, and the question one generation asks the one before it: How could you have let this happen to us?
You Have to Stop This (Secret, #5)
by Pseudonymous Bosch
Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Middle Grade, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Young Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.32

The finale to the New York Times bestselling Secret Series! I always feared this day would come. A secret is meant to stay secret, after all. And now we've come to this: the fifth and final (I swear!) book in my saga of secrets.A class trip to the local natural history museum turns dangerous, or perhaps deadly--and I don't mean in the bored-to-death way--when Cass accidentally breaks a finger off a priceless mummy. Forced to atone for this "crime" of vandalism, Cass and her friends Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji go to work for the mummy exhibit's curator, only to be blamed when tragedy strikes. To clear their names--and, they hope, to discover the Secret--the trio must travel deep into a land of majestic pyramids, dusty tombs, mysterious hieroglyphs, and the walking dead. Egypt? Or somewhere much stranger . . .In the midst of it all, the Secret still lurks. You're out there, reading and talking about it, and now my life--and chocolate supply--is in the greatest danger yet. So please, with a cherry on top, I'm begging you: you have to stop this!
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
by Miklós Nyiszli
Genres: History, Nonfiction, Holocaust, War, World War II, Memoir, Biography
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.30

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capactity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. Miraculously, Nyiszli survived to give this horrifying and sobering account.
Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)
by Lisa See
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, China, Historical, Asia, Asian Literature, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.09

In her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the Communist regime. Devastated by Joy’s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joy’s and Pearl’s separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China’s history threatens their very lives.
Among the Free (Shadow Children, #7)
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.13

ENOUGH GAMES.Luke Garner is a third-born in a restrictive society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police laws. Now, in the final volume of Margaret Peterson Haddix's suspenseful Shadow Children series, Luke inadvertently sets off a rebellion that results in the overthrow of the government. The people are finally free. But who is in charge now? And will this new freedom be everything they had hoped?
The Merlin Conspiracy (Magids, #2)
by Diana Wynne Jones
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.93

When the Merlin of Blest dies, everyone thinks it's a natural death. But Roddy and Grundo, two children traveling with the Royal Court, soon discover the truth. The Merlin's replacement and other courtiers are scheming to steal the magic of Blest for their own purposes.Roddy enlists the help of Nick, a boy from another world, and the three turn to their own impressive powers. The dangers are great, and if Roddy, Grundo, and Nick cannot stop the conspirators, the results will be more dreadful than they could possibly imagine.
Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1)
by Anthony Ryan
Genres: Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fiction, High Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.42

“The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm.”Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order. The Brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate, and dangerous life of a Warrior of the Faith. He has no family now save the Order.Vaelin’s father was Battle Lord to King Janus, ruler of the unified realm. Vaelin’s rage at being deprived of his birthright and dropped at the doorstep of the Sixth Order like a foundling knows no bounds. He cherishes the memory of his mother, and what he will come to learn of her at the Order will confound him. His father, too, has motives that Vaelin will come to understand. But one truth overpowers all the rest: Vaelin Al Sorna is destined for a future he has yet to comprehend. A future that will alter not only the realm, but the world.
Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor's Heart
by Sharon Peters
Genres: Animals, Nonfiction, Dogs, Holocaust, Memoir, War, World War II
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.23

Max Edelman was just 17 when the Nazis took him from his Jewish ghetto in Poland to the first of five work camps, where his only hope of survival was to keep quiet and raise an emotional shield. After witnessing a German Shepherd kill a fellow prisoner, he developed a lifelong fear of dogs. Later beaten into blindness by two bored guards, Max survived, buried the past, and moved on to a new life in America, becoming an X-ray technician. But when he retired, he needed help. He needed a guide dog. After a month of training, he received Calvin, a handsome, devoted chocolate Labrador retriever. Calvin guided Max safely through life, but he sensed the distance and reserve of Max’s emotional shield. Calvin grew listless and lost weight. Trainers intervened—but to no avail. A few days before Calvin’s inevitable reassignment, Max went for an afternoon walk. A car cut into the crosswalk, and Calvin leapt forward, saving Max’s life. Max’s emotional shield dissolved. Calvin sensed the change and immediately improved, guiding Max to greater openness, trust, and engagement with the world. Here is the remarkable, touching story of a man who survived history and the dog that unlocked his heart.
The Treemakers (The Treemakers Trilogy #1)
by Christina L. Rozelle
Genres: Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Horror
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.23

This is a previously-published alternate cover edition of ASIN B00P49KVKG.  Sixteen-year-old Joy Montgomery, daughter of Zephyr the Magnificent, the great magician, can only reminisce of better times. Before the Superiors. Before the uprisings. Long ago. Before the dying Earth ripped the family she loved away from her. In this desolate dystopian future, the Greenleigh orphans are “privileged” with the task of building mechanical trees for Bygonne, so their world behind The Wall can breathe another day, and so the Superiors may continue their malevolent reign. Lured by a yearning for freedom, tenacious curiosity, and hunger for adventure, Joy discovers hope and magic amid the misery, and power in her promise to care for those remaining, whom she loves enough to risk her life for. To save them, herself, and the boy she adores from the abuse and slavery by the Superiors, Joy must entrust the aid of an unlikely ally who harbors a dangerous secret. With an intriguing stranger at the helm, Joy and the treemakers embark on an intense and terrifying, yet liberating quest for the truth about the existence of the forbidden paradise beyond The Wall.   *Please note: This is the first book in the series. The second book will be available late 2015. This story is intended for mature young adult audiences, and contains themes that may be disturbing and/or offensive to some people. If you find abusive, sexual, violent, deeply intense emotional, and/or character death events disturbing and/or offensive, this book is not recommended for you or your children. Though please keep in mind this story balances those events and sequences with love, friendship, integrity, strength, nurturing, hope, perseverance, determination, and the fight for freedom from bondage. This story is not intended for the weak of heart.
Travesuras de la niña mala
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Genres: Fiction, Romance, Spanish Literature, Novels, Latin American, Nobel Prize, Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.11

¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor?Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueño que en su Lima natal alimentó desde que tenía uso de razón: vivir en París. Pero el rencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiará todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmática e inquieta, lo arrastrará fuera del pequeño mundo de sus ambiciones.Testigos de épocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, París, Tokio o Madrid, que aquí son mucho más que escenarios, ambos personajes verán sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar a coincidir del todo. Sin embargo, esta danza de encuentros y desencuentros hará crecer la intensidad del relato página a página hasta propiciar una verdadera fusión del lector con el universo emocional de los protagonistas.Creando una admirable tensión entre lo cómico y lo trágico, Mario Vargas Llosa juega en Travesuras de la niña mala (2006) con la realidad y la ficción para liberar una historia en la que el amor se nos muestra indefinible, dueño de mil caras, como la niña mala. Pasión y distancia, azar y destino, dolor y disfrute... ¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor?
Beautiful Redemption (Caster Chronicles, #4)
by Kami Garcia
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.92

Is death the end . . . or only the beginning?Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would meet the girl of his dreams, Lena Duchannes, who unveiled a secretive, powerful, and cursed side of Gatlin, hidden in plain sight. And he never could have expected that he would be forced to leave behind everyone and everything he cares about. So when Ethan awakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, he has only one goal: to find a way to return to Lena and the ones he loves.Back in Gatlin, Lena is making her own bargains for Ethan's return, vowing to do whatever it takes -- even if that means trusting old enemies or risking the lives of the family and friends Ethan left to protect.Worlds apart, Ethan and Lena must once again work together to rewrite their fate, in this stunning finale to the Beautiful Creatures series.
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.14

This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the source for the movie Rashōmon to his later, more autobiographical writings.Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashōmon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as ‘Death Register’, ‘The Life of a Stupid Man’ and ‘Spinning Gears’, Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.A WORLD IN DECAY- Rashōmon- In a Bamboo Grove- The Nose- Dragon: The Old Potter's Tale- The Spider Thread- Hell ScreenUNDER THE SWORD- Dr. Ogata Ryōsai: Memorandum- O-Gin- LoyaltyMODERN TRAGICOMEDY- The Story of a Head That Fell Off- Green Onions- Horse LegsAKUTAGAWA'S OWN STORY- Daidōji Shinsuke: The Early Years- The Writer's Craft- The Baby's Sickness- Death Register- The Life of a Stupid Man- Spinning Gears
Kaden
by Synne Jakobsen
Genres: Paranormal
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.25

After a century of captivity, Kaden—a ruthless, bloodthirsty wolf with no loyalties—is out for blood.  But while on a mission to eliminate one of his enemies, Kaden meets his mate, a she-wolf with problems of her own.  He takes her after mercilessly slaughtering her pack. She refuses to accept him because he is a cold-blooded killer with an insatiable hunger for violence.  They were destined to be together, but even the moon goddess herself must realize that they are a very bad match.
Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #32)
by Agatha Christie
Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.85

‘Mrs McGinty’s dead!’ ‘How did she die?’ ‘Down on one knee, just like I!’ The old children’s game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen. Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas – unaware that his own life is now in great danger.
Το βιβλίο που γράφεται μόνο του (Το Μαγικό Βιβλίο #1)
by Korina Lymnioudi
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.56

Πως είναι όταν ο μελλοντικος εαυτος σου σε επισκεπτεται και σου μεταδιδει ένα βιβλιο από τα βαθη των ακασικων αρχειων?Σου μεταδιδει μια ιστορια για ένα ξωτικο που ανακαλυπτει ότι υπαρχουν οι ανθρωποι στην πραγματικοτητα και όχι μονο στα παραμυθια.Κι εκει που πιστευες ότι γραφεις ένα παραμυθι, ξαφνικα το ξωτικο αποκτα μια περιεργη αποστολη. Χωνεται στα εγκατα της Κουφιας Γης (Hollow Earth), συναντα εξωγηινους, μαθαινει την ιστορια της Γης και του συμπαντος. Κανει ταξιδια σε παραλληλα συμπαντα, συνειδητο ονειρεμα (Lucid Dreaming), μαθαινει για τις Διδυμες Φλογες (Twin flames), και συναντα τις πιο περιεργες οντοτητες από ανωτερα πεδια υπαρξης, καθως διανυει τη σκοτεινη νυχτα της ψυχης.Τοτε ο κοσμος του αλλαζει και αντιλαμβανεται ότι μπορει να καταφερει τα παντα.Μελετωντας αυτό το βιβλιο 3 φορες, θα ανοιξει το 3ο σας ματι, θα αυξηθει η αυρα σας, θα ενεργοποιηθει ο εγκεφαλος και το DNA σας.Υπεροχα μαγικα πραγματα θα σας συμβουν καθως θα αρχισετε να εχετε επικοινωνια με τον Ανωτερο Εαυτο σας και καθοδηγηση από εκεινον και θα βρειτε την πραγματικη σας αποστολη στον πλανητη Γη. Ο Μελλοντικός μου εαυτός...Η Μαγια είναι μια οντοτητα από το μελλον.Εχει σαν αποστολη της να μεταδωσει στην ανθρωποτητα καποια μηνυματα και γι αυτό μετεδωσε μεσω channeling αυτό το βιβλιο.Η Μάγια έπαιξε το ρόλο του αγγελιοφόρου...ο μελλοντικός μου εαυτός, που μετέδωσε αυτό το βιβλίο σε μένα, καθώς το μυαλό μου λάμβανε την ουσία των συναισθημάτων της, ξεφλουδίζοντας τα στρώματα της αλήθειας, ψάχνοντας για μία πιο ανυψωμένη μορφή της πραγματικότητας.Την αληθινή πραγματικότητα!
Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1)
by Ali Smith
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, British Literature, Literature, Art
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.69

Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever...