2009 MUST READS: Children's and YA
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (shelved 381 times as literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 259,920 ratings — published 1922
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by J.D. Salinger (shelved 364 times as literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 264,438 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by Harper Lee (shelved 359 times as literature)
avg rating 4.27 — 336,398 ratings — published 1960
Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell (shelved 328 times as literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 49 ratings — published 1949
Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 322 times as literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 208,256 ratings — published 1813
Animal Farm (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 300 times as literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 209,814 ratings — published 1945
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by William Golding (shelved 294 times as literature)
avg rating 3.58 — 209,606 ratings — published 1954
Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 263 times as literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 204,682 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by Mark Twain (shelved 241 times as literature)
avg rating 4.33 — 7 ratings — published 1884
Jane Eyre: Claire Bloom, Sir Anthony Quayle & Cast (Audio Cassette)
by Charlotte Brontë (shelved 217 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1847
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (shelved 212 times as literature)
avg rating 3.29 — 52,564 ratings — published 1850
Brave New World (Paperback)
by Aldous Huxley (shelved 203 times as literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 136,047 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Abridged)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky (shelved 200 times as literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,888 ratings — published 1866
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer (shelved 196 times as literature)
avg rating 3.65 — 99,852 ratings — published -750
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Red Classics)
by Emily Brontë (shelved 192 times as literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 70 ratings — published 1847
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by Kurt Vonnegut (shelved 180 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 147,391 ratings — published 1969
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by Mary Shelley (shelved 175 times as literature)
avg rating 3.66 — 96,300 ratings — published 1818
The Grapes of Wrath (An Adapted Classic)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 175 times as literature)
avg rating 3.56 — 16 ratings — published 1939
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 165 times as literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 117,263 ratings — published 1967
The Stranger (Paperback)
by Albert Camus (shelved 164 times as literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 37,320 ratings — published 1942
Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov (shelved 161 times as literature)
avg rating 3.88 — 91,428 ratings — published 1958
Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury (shelved 160 times as literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 102,888 ratings — published 1953
The Old Man and the Sea (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway (shelved 158 times as literature)
avg rating 3.50 — 39,139 ratings — published 1950
Romeo und Julia. Ein Trauerspiel in fünf Akten. (Lernmaterialien)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 154 times as literature)
avg rating 3.50 — 5 ratings — published 1595
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 152 times as literature)
avg rating 3.61 — 39,580 ratings — published 1861
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 151 times as literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 104,249 ratings — published 1859
Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
by Joseph Conrad (shelved 151 times as literature)
avg rating 3.41 — 24,519 ratings — published 1902
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by Joseph Heller (shelved 146 times as literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 53,710 ratings — published 1955
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by J.R.R. Tolkien (shelved 145 times as literature)
avg rating 4.06 — 188,717 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Cliffs Complete Study Editions)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 145 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1386
Emma (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 144 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 44,289 ratings — published 1815
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 144 times as literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 102,348 ratings — published 1811
Little Women (Paperback)
by Louisa May Alcott (shelved 143 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 167,041 ratings — published 1867
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by Oscar Wilde (shelved 142 times as literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,339 ratings — published 1890
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by Hermann Hesse (shelved 133 times as literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 32,157 ratings — published 1922
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky (shelved 131 times as literature)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1880
The Iliad (Paperback)
by Homer (shelved 130 times as literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,878 ratings — published -750
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (Poche)
by Alexandre Dumas (shelved 129 times as literature)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1844
The Handmaid's Tale (Paperback)
by Margaret Atwood (shelved 127 times as literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 66,414 ratings — published 1985
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville (shelved 127 times as literature)
avg rating 3.33 — 58,270 ratings — published 1851
Persuassion (Kindle Edition)
by Jane Austen (shelved 124 times as literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 30 ratings — published 1818
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway (shelved 123 times as literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 33,391 ratings — published 1926
Anna Karenina (Mass Market Paperback)
by Leo Tolstoy (shelved 121 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,438 ratings — published 1873
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway (shelved 121 times as literature)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,807 ratings — published 1929
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by Victor Hugo (shelved 120 times as literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 78,169 ratings — published 1862
Macbeth (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 119 times as literature)
avg rating 3.88 — 38,439 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by Franz Kafka (shelved 118 times as literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 29,299 ratings — published 1915
On the Road (Paperback)
by Jack Kerouac (shelved 117 times as literature)
avg rating 3.66 — 41,015 ratings — published 1957
The Road (Hardcover)
by Cormac McCarthy (shelved 116 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 63,052 ratings — published 2006
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 115 times as literature)
avg rating 3.79 — 60,721 ratings — published 1985
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