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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,085,929 ratings — published 1967
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 166 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 407,303 ratings — published 1958
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,049,027 ratings — published 1866
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,352,135 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,376,709 ratings — published 1915
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 300,963 ratings — published 1615
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,441,942 ratings — published 2003
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,491,421 ratings — published 1988
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 917,686 ratings — published 1878
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,171,843 ratings — published -700
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 541,076 ratings — published 1985
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,418,207 ratings — published 1943
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 377,588 ratings — published 1880
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 384,917 ratings — published 1925
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 501,821 ratings — published -800
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 836,685 ratings — published 1862
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 533,861 ratings — published 1984
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 320,698 ratings — published 1997
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 369,070 ratings — published 1856
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,706,785 ratings — published 2007
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 360,837 ratings — published 1869
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,304 ratings — published -1200
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,329,091 ratings — published 1949
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 410,130 ratings — published 1967
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 860,118 ratings — published 1922
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,439,798 ratings — published 1945
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.14 — 391,263 ratings — published 1980
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,005,893 ratings — published 1846
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 511,958 ratings — published 1928
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 212,105 ratings — published 1869
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.76 — 297,732 ratings — published 1759
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 307,101 ratings — published 1947
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 538,119 ratings — published 2002
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 169,529 ratings — published 1320
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,124,678 ratings — published 1947
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 311,809 ratings — published 1982
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 215,599 ratings — published 1831
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 931,173 ratings — published 1955
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 229,545 ratings — published 1981
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 712,559 ratings — published 1987
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,739,312 ratings — published 2001
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 203,126 ratings — published 1320
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,691 ratings — published 1998
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,709,321 ratings — published 1813
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,286,160 ratings — published 1952
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 331,185 ratings — published 1995
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,841,468 ratings — published 1951
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 707,667 ratings — published 2001
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 407,025 ratings — published 2013
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,744 ratings — published 1981
“Dreams, always dreams! and the more ambitious and delicate is the soul, the more its dreams bear it away from possibility. Each man carries in himself his dose of natural opium, incessantly secreted and renewed. From birth to death, how many hours can we count that are filled by positive enjoyment, by successful and decisive action? Shall we ever live, shall we ever pass into this picture which my soul has painted, this picture which resembles you?
These treasures, this furniture, this luxury, this order, these perfumes, these miraculous flowers, they are you. Still you, these mighty rivers and these calm canals! These enormous ships that ride upon them, freighted with wealth, whence rise the monotonous songs of their handling: these are my thoughts that sleep or that roll upon your breast. You lead them softly towards that sea which is the Infinite; ever reflecting the depths of heaven in the limpidity of your fair soul; and when, tired by the ocean's swell and gorged with the treasures of the East, they return to their port of departure, these are still my thoughts enriched which return from the Infinite - towards you.”
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These treasures, this furniture, this luxury, this order, these perfumes, these miraculous flowers, they are you. Still you, these mighty rivers and these calm canals! These enormous ships that ride upon them, freighted with wealth, whence rise the monotonous songs of their handling: these are my thoughts that sleep or that roll upon your breast. You lead them softly towards that sea which is the Infinite; ever reflecting the depths of heaven in the limpidity of your fair soul; and when, tired by the ocean's swell and gorged with the treasures of the East, they return to their port of departure, these are still my thoughts enriched which return from the Infinite - towards you.”
―
“Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength
and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth
to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable
for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth
to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable
for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
