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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,581,496 ratings — published 1945
Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles, #7)
by (shelved 19 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.77 — 45,338 ratings — published 2000
V. (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,434 ratings — published 1963
Deadeye Dick (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,797 ratings — published 1982
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.16 — 562,579 ratings — published 1996
Dreamcatcher (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.66 — 186,697 ratings — published 2001
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.24 — 777,851 ratings — published 2007
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.99 — 888,686 ratings — published 1961
Player Piano (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,518 ratings — published 1952
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.39 — 389,240 ratings — published 1880
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,089,176 ratings — published 1866
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,333,373 ratings — published 1847
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.24 — 337,952 ratings — published 1989
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.61 — 100,393 ratings — published 1985
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.06 — 610,949 ratings — published 1871
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.89 — 299,278 ratings — published 1980
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.69 — 97,952 ratings — published 1966
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,834 ratings — published 1958
Sentimental Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.81 — 24,849 ratings — published 1869
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.35 — 833,785 ratings — published 1989
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.97 — 196,668 ratings — published 1920
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.97 — 710,479 ratings — published 1989
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,152 ratings — published 1965
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.88 — 107,437 ratings — published 2007
Disclosure (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,713 ratings — published 1994
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.77 — 150,096 ratings — published 1934
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,942,687 ratings — published 1925
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,414,100 ratings — published 1942
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,860 ratings — published 1959
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.69 — 407,575 ratings — published 1957
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.94 — 398,130 ratings — published 1925
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,667 ratings — published 1843
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.89 — 277,433 ratings — published 1869
Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.12 — 53,783 ratings — published 1996
Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan, #5; Jack Ryan Universe, #6)
by (shelved 12 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.14 — 144,231 ratings — published 1989
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,115 ratings — published 1943
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.05 — 115,863 ratings — published 1995
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.56 — 15,076 ratings — published 1961
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.21 — 218,979 ratings — published 1869
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.85 — 226,074 ratings — published 1864
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.01 — 226,011 ratings — published 2003
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.85 — 252,276 ratings — published 1958
Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.32 — 180,237 ratings — published 1999
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.85 — 148,062 ratings — published 1918
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.98 — 106,229 ratings — published 1905
Our Mutual Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1945)
avg rating 4.09 — 31,477 ratings — published 1865
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1945)
avg rating 3.80 — 876,588 ratings — published 1861
“We wanted to recreate inside ourselves our former front-line self-assurance. We were pups and we did not understand to what extent the Archipelago was unlike the front, to what degree its war of siege was more difficult than our war of explosives.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
“So the lie remains, tolerated, admitted. But only that… just tolerated and admitted, and only under certain conditions. The exception is war: then, and then only, the lie becomes a just instrument.
But what if war, an abnormal, episodic, transient condition, should come to be permanent and taken for granted? The lie, once an emergency measure, now becomes the norm: for a social group that sees itself hemmed in by enemies will not hesitate for one moment to utilize any weapon against them. The truth among themselves, the lie for outsiders—this rule of conduct would become deeply embedded in their mores.”
― Réflexions sur le mensonge
But what if war, an abnormal, episodic, transient condition, should come to be permanent and taken for granted? The lie, once an emergency measure, now becomes the norm: for a social group that sees itself hemmed in by enemies will not hesitate for one moment to utilize any weapon against them. The truth among themselves, the lie for outsiders—this rule of conduct would become deeply embedded in their mores.”
― Réflexions sur le mensonge
