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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (shelved 377 times as literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 254,122 ratings — published 1922
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by J.D. Salinger (shelved 363 times as literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 258,591 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by Harper Lee (shelved 357 times as literature)
avg rating 4.27 — 328,830 ratings — published 1960
Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 325 times as literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,615 ratings — published 1813
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 324 times as literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 47 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 296 times as literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 204,492 ratings — published 1945
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by William Golding (shelved 289 times as literature)
avg rating 3.58 — 204,475 ratings — published 1954
Of Mice and Men, 2 Cassetten (Sondereinband)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 260 times as literature)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by Mark Twain (shelved 240 times as literature)
avg rating 3.79 — 183,557 ratings — published 1884
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by Charlotte Brontë (shelved 212 times as literature)
avg rating 4.24 — 91 ratings — published 1847
The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (shelved 211 times as literature)
avg rating 3.29 — 51,652 ratings — published 1850
Vrli novi svijet (Hard cover)
by Aldous Huxley (shelved 202 times as literature)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Abridged)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky (shelved 200 times as literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,369 ratings — published 1866
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer (shelved 193 times as literature)
avg rating 3.65 — 95,861 ratings — published -750
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by Emily Brontë (shelved 190 times as literature)
avg rating 3.69 — 53,169 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein (Great Illustrated Classics)
by Mary Shelley (shelved 180 times as literature)
avg rating 3.50 — 12 ratings — published 1818
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by Kurt Vonnegut (shelved 180 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 143,778 ratings — published 1969
The Grapes of Wrath (Paperback)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 174 times as literature)
avg rating 3.88 — 56,377 ratings — published 1939
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 163 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 114,091 ratings — published 1967
The Stranger (Paperback)
by Albert Camus (shelved 163 times as literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 36,753 ratings — published 1942
Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov (shelved 159 times as literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 88,864 ratings — published 1958
Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury (shelved 158 times as literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 99,328 ratings — published 1953
The Old Man and the Sea (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway (shelved 157 times as literature)
avg rating 3.50 — 38,479 ratings — published 1950
Romeo and Juliet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 152 times as literature)
avg rating 3.78 — 188,557 ratings — published 1595
Great Expectations (Kindle Edition)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 151 times as literature)
avg rating 4.50 — 5 ratings — published 1861
Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
by Joseph Conrad (shelved 150 times as literature)
avg rating 3.41 — 23,999 ratings — published 1902
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 148 times as literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 100,727 ratings — published 1859
Little Women (Paperback)
by Louisa May Alcott (shelved 148 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 162,566 ratings — published 1867
Hamlet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 145 times as literature)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,162 ratings — published 1386
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by Joseph Heller (shelved 145 times as literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 52,801 ratings — published 1955
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by J.R.R. Tolkien (shelved 142 times as literature)
avg rating 4.06 — 184,743 ratings — published 1937
Emma (Audio Cassette)
by Jane Austen (shelved 142 times as literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 18 ratings — published 1386
Sense and Sensibility (Library Binding)
by Jane Austen (shelved 142 times as literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 5 ratings — published 1811
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by Oscar Wilde (shelved 141 times as literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,399 ratings — published 1890
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by Hermann Hesse (shelved 131 times as literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 31,657 ratings — published 1922
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky (shelved 131 times as literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 20,612 ratings — published 1880
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville (shelved 131 times as literature)
avg rating 3.33 — 55,424 ratings — published 1851
The Iliad (Paperback)
by Homer (shelved 129 times as literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,447 ratings — published -750
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway (shelved 129 times as literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 32,936 ratings — published 1926
Het verhaal van de Dienstmaagd
by Margaret Atwood (shelved 127 times as literature)
avg rating 2.00 — 3 ratings — published 1985
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas (shelved 123 times as literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 88,868 ratings — published 1844
Anna Karenina (Mass Market Paperback)
by Leo Tolstoy (shelved 122 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,946 ratings — published 1873
Persuasion (EasyRead Large Edition)
by Jane Austen (shelved 121 times as literature)
avg rating 3.76 — 29 ratings — published 1818
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway (shelved 120 times as literature)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,455 ratings — published 1929
Macbeth (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 118 times as literature)
avg rating 3.88 — 37,790 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by Franz Kafka (shelved 117 times as literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 28,880 ratings — published 1915
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by Victor Hugo (shelved 117 times as literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 75,169 ratings — published 1862
On the Road (Paperback)
by Jack Kerouac (shelved 116 times as literature)
avg rating 3.66 — 40,410 ratings — published 1957
The Road (Hardcover)
by Cormac McCarthy (shelved 116 times as literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,807 ratings — published 2006
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by Gabriel García Márquez (shelved 114 times as literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 60,324 ratings — published 1985
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