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Ambition Books
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Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,016,368 ratings — published 1623
Carrie Soto Is Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.20 — 708,379 ratings — published 2022
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,052,369 ratings — published 2017
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,885,927 ratings — published 1925
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.77 — 202,446 ratings — published 2008
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,873,119 ratings — published 1818
A Ladder to the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,364 ratings — published 2018
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,512 ratings — published 1994
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.49 — 961,946 ratings — published 2006
Status Anxiety (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.89 — 21,738 ratings — published 2004
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,450 ratings — published 2012
Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,603 ratings — published 2011
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.15 — 37,381 ratings — published 1998
Paths of Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,413 ratings — published 2009
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,013,377 ratings — published 2023
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,339,323 ratings — published 2022
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.54 — 379,036 ratings — published 2016
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.71 — 373,508 ratings — published 1856
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,163,229 ratings — published 2020
Rescuing Ambition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.95 — 638 ratings — published 2010
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.19 — 181,510 ratings — published 2019
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.91 — 332,730 ratings — published 2007
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,062,740 ratings — published 2019
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,715,827 ratings — published 2018
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.27 — 755,059 ratings — published 2014
After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,598 ratings — published 2017
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.01 — 359,384 ratings — published 1968
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.34 — 619,073 ratings — published 2017
Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.15 — 75,627 ratings — published 1992
Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.94 — 154,524 ratings — published 2015
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,081 ratings — published 2014
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.95 — 568,339 ratings — published -500
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,312 ratings — published 1994
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.80 — 871,624 ratings — published 1861
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.09 — 223,525 ratings — published 1999
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,725,309 ratings — published 1996
Spectacular Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,793 ratings — published 2025
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,846 ratings — published 2025
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,983 ratings — published 2006
The Woman Upstairs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.31 — 33,651 ratings — published 2013
Heir to the Shadows (The Black Jewels, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.31 — 29,611 ratings — published 1999
The Fury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.36 — 231,133 ratings — published 2024
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.70 — 100,888 ratings — published 2023
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.10 — 62,706 ratings — published 2020
Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,273,530 ratings — published 2022
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 3.59 — 258,284 ratings — published 1949
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.77 — 98,441 ratings — published 2023
The House of Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.25 — 133,694 ratings — published 2023
Barb and the Ghost Blade (Barb the Last Berzerker, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as ambition)
avg rating 4.29 — 334 ratings — published
“There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun.”
― Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
― Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”
― Bloodline
― Bloodline
