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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 783 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,982,891 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 674 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,367,618 ratings — published 1949
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 651 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,754,323 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 620 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,913,514 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 591 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,859,978 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 466 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,030,522 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 450 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,511,018 ratings — published 1932
Lolita (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 690,285 ratings — published 1955
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 436 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,787,850 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,364,457 ratings — published 1954
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 411 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,174,313 ratings — published 1969
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 407 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 756,817 ratings — published 1942
The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
by (shelved 402 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,560,404 ratings — published 1985
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 395 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,047,871 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 880,197 ratings — published 1952
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 380 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 625,101 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1)
by (shelved 372 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.48 — 7,515,893 ratings — published 1997
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 369 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 235,424 ratings — published 1925
Rebecca (ebook)
by (shelved 347 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.23 — 488,511 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 694,356 ratings — published 1915
The Little Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,484,547 ratings — published 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,917,693 ratings — published 1947
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 320 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,909,307 ratings — published 1998
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 141,442 ratings — published 1927
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 788,728 ratings — published 1967
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.29 — 260,285 ratings — published 1967
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 778,128 ratings — published 1939
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 284 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,443,180 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 283 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,009,197 ratings — published 1999
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 624,893 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 746,177 ratings — published 1961
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.62 — 132,001 ratings — published 1916
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 255 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,513,081 ratings — published 1979
A Room of One's Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.17 — 130,728 ratings — published 1929
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.62 — 361,666 ratings — published 1955
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 904,314 ratings — published 1939
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 248,256 ratings — published 1925
The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
by (shelved 239 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 375,809 ratings — published 1926
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 127,924 ratings — published 1914
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.19 — 652,071 ratings — published 1962
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 218,265 ratings — published 1958
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 230 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,242,599 ratings — published 1950
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 614,763 ratings — published 1922
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.86 — 162,172 ratings — published 1929
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 168,282 ratings — published 1952
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 361,920 ratings — published 1984
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 221 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.45 — 758,246 ratings — published 1954
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.38 — 444,796 ratings — published 1952
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 4.06 — 558,902 ratings — published 1965
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as 20th-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 343,250 ratings — published 1987
“Erst im Unglück weiß man wahrhaft, wer man ist.”
― Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
― Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
“It was a habit he developed, of incubating and maturing his thought upon a subject, and of then rushing into the type-writer with it. That it did not see print was a matter a small moment with him. The writing of it was the culminating act of a long mental process, the drawing together of scattered threads of thought and the final generalizing upon all the data with which his mind was burdened. To write such an article was the conscious effort by which he freed his mind and made it ready for fresh material and problems.”
― Martin Eden
― Martin Eden
The Most Important People of the 20th Century (Part-I): Leaders & Revolutionaries
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