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Ambitious Books
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The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 375,572 ratings — published 1880
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 914,923 ratings — published 1878
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambitious)
avg rating 4.25 — 99,635 ratings — published 1996
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as ambitious)
avg rating 4.16 — 67,012 ratings — published 1913
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambitious)
avg rating 4.03 — 176,517 ratings — published 1872
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambitious)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,491 ratings — published 1981
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambitious)
avg rating 4.17 — 47,031 ratings — published 2015
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambitious)
avg rating 4.52 — 27,784 ratings — published 1974
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 261,763 ratings — published 1980
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 299,999 ratings — published 1615
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 287,305 ratings — published 1965
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambitious)
avg rating 4.17 — 359,845 ratings — published 1869
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 47,340 ratings — published 1973
The Last Samurai (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 11,215 ratings — published 2000
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.39 — 8,511 ratings — published 1748
The Second Sex (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 46,401 ratings — published 1949
The Art of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambitious)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,782 ratings — published 1998
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambitious)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,942 ratings — published 1979
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambitious)
avg rating 3.64 — 162,117 ratings — published 1916
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 70,865 ratings — published 1988
2666 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambitious)
avg rating 4.22 — 47,455 ratings — published 2004
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambitious)
avg rating 3.77 — 139,259 ratings — published 1922
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,343,068 ratings — published 1942
Sell or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,984 ratings — published 1998
Faust (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 3.90 — 49,101 ratings — published 1808
The Night Ends with Fire (The Dragon Spirit, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 3.79 — 14,598 ratings — published 2024
Laozi's Dao De Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.40 — 237 ratings — published
The Lathe of Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.13 — 85,705 ratings — published 1971
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.08 — 70,289 ratings — published 2001
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.35 — 821,214 ratings — published 1978
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,088 ratings — published 2004
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,925,241 ratings — published 2017
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.51 — 15,973 ratings — published 2024
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.51 — 40,727 ratings — published 2021
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.08 — 856,945 ratings — published 1922
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,160 ratings — published 2007
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.14 — 309,667 ratings — published 1994
Beautifully Fractured (Front Range University #1)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,017 ratings — published 2024
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,892 ratings — published 2020
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 3.95 — 237,085 ratings — published 1948
Meditations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 329,268 ratings — published 180
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,029,340 ratings — published 2023
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.64 — 1,967,714 ratings — published 2015
King: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.65 — 11,434 ratings — published 2023
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 40,807 ratings — published 2020
Red or Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,385 ratings — published 2013
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 258,962 ratings — published 2021
Phenomenology of Spirit (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 20,181 ratings — published 1807
The Color of Our Sky (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 12,421 ratings — published 2015
Carrie Soto Is Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ambitious)
avg rating 4.20 — 685,537 ratings — published 2022
“We only have one life. We have to do everything we can to achieve our ambitions (Lena Hartwell in Ambitious)”
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