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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,771,809 ratings — published 1977
Beach Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as authors)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,795,258 ratings — published 2020
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 861,567 ratings — published 1987
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as authors)
avg rating 3.92 — 215,698 ratings — published 1998
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 328,368 ratings — published 2000
The Dark Half (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as authors)
avg rating 3.81 — 156,110 ratings — published 1989
Lisey's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as authors)
avg rating 3.70 — 97,089 ratings — published 2006
Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as authors)
avg rating 4.13 — 128,228 ratings — published 2000
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as authors)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,173,899 ratings — published 2023
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as authors)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,822,885 ratings — published 2007
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,017,859 ratings — published 1813
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,889,651 ratings — published 2012
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,201,681 ratings — published 2018
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 17 times as authors)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,968 ratings — published 1982
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as authors)
avg rating 4.03 — 192,167 ratings — published 2008
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as authors)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,392,462 ratings — published 2015
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as authors)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,562,474 ratings — published 2012
Imperial Bedrooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as authors)
avg rating 3.20 — 21,545 ratings — published 2010
What Is the What (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as authors)
avg rating 4.15 — 88,357 ratings — published 2006
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,694,950 ratings — published 2022
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,151,411 ratings — published 1925
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,448,070 ratings — published 2017
Winter Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as authors)
avg rating 4.28 — 489,994 ratings — published 2010
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as authors)
avg rating 3.98 — 331,313 ratings — published 2006
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as authors)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,290 ratings — published 2006
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,696 ratings — published 1849
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,840,793 ratings — published 2016
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,532,278 ratings — published 1942
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,284,118 ratings — published 2012
Nineteen Minutes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as authors)
avg rating 4.18 — 438,630 ratings — published 2007
Great Big Beautiful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 3.95 — 886,258 ratings — published 2025
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,319,311 ratings — published 1963
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,116 ratings — published -560
The Paris Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as authors)
avg rating 3.82 — 308,367 ratings — published 2011
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as authors)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,151,492 ratings — published 2021
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as authors)
avg rating 4.16 — 885,839 ratings — published 2019
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as authors)
avg rating 4.40 — 416,613 ratings — published 1879
The Appeal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as authors)
avg rating 3.66 — 64,676 ratings — published 2008
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as authors)
avg rating 3.78 — 45,299 ratings — published 1992
People We Meet on Vacation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,976,286 ratings — published 2021
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,545,853 ratings — published 1868
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,004,513 ratings — published 2018
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,902 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.30 — 599,005 ratings — published 1969
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,841,488 ratings — published 1997
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,293,659 ratings — published 2008
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as authors)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,085,479 ratings — published 2006
Happy Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,553,437 ratings — published 2023
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,361,075 ratings — published 2018
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as authors)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,035,205 ratings — published 1859
“Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious” and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, they can shout from the rooftops “This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to make their review all about how their dog Foot Foot especially loved to pee on that particular book, they can."
[Blog entry, January 9, 2012]”
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[Blog entry, January 9, 2012]”
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“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck's book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man's stupid words. And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar. We are worth so much more.”
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
