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Beach Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as authors)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,697,278 ratings — published 2020
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,736,284 ratings — published 1977
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as authors)
avg rating 3.92 — 213,254 ratings — published 1998
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 836,736 ratings — published 1987
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 322,725 ratings — published 2000
The Dark Half (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as authors)
avg rating 3.81 — 154,188 ratings — published 1989
Lisey's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as authors)
avg rating 3.70 — 95,685 ratings — published 2006
Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 125,732 ratings — published 2000
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as authors)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,772,892 ratings — published 2007
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as authors)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,096,752 ratings — published 2023
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,902,716 ratings — published 1813
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,797,160 ratings — published 2012
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 17 times as authors)
avg rating 3.86 — 193,278 ratings — published 1982
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,965,629 ratings — published 2018
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as authors)
avg rating 4.02 — 187,726 ratings — published 2008
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as authors)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,498,151 ratings — published 2012
What Is the What (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as authors)
avg rating 4.15 — 87,718 ratings — published 2006
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as authors)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,617,996 ratings — published 2022
Imperial Bedrooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as authors)
avg rating 3.20 — 21,146 ratings — published 2010
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as authors)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,084 ratings — published 2006
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,021,076 ratings — published 1925
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,242,915 ratings — published 2017
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,241,486 ratings — published 2015
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,245,251 ratings — published 2012
Winter Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 463,473 ratings — published 2010
Nineteen Minutes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 4.18 — 429,161 ratings — published 2007
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 328,711 ratings — published 2006
Great Big Beautiful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 3.95 — 793,647 ratings — published 2025
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,331 ratings — published 1849
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,721,502 ratings — published 2016
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,456,501 ratings — published 1942
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,395 ratings — published -560
The Paris Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 3.82 — 306,664 ratings — published 2011
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as authors)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,264,210 ratings — published 1963
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 589,760 ratings — published 1969
The Appeal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as authors)
avg rating 3.65 — 63,534 ratings — published 2008
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as authors)
avg rating 3.78 — 44,451 ratings — published 1992
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,980,173 ratings — published 2021
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,499,741 ratings — published 1868
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,927,477 ratings — published 2018
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,858 ratings — published 2016
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,782 ratings — published 1880
People We Meet on Vacation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,849,629 ratings — published 2021
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 4.16 — 843,850 ratings — published 2019
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,268,603 ratings — published 2018
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,131,788 ratings — published 2014
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,388,755 ratings — published 2015
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 4.15 — 442,768 ratings — published 1963
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,025,320 ratings — published 2006
Super Sad True Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 3.45 — 41,986 ratings — published 2010
“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
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