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Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.11 — 960,257 ratings — published 1878
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,011 ratings — published 2001
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,023 ratings — published 1605
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.22 — 859,254 ratings — published 1862
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,799,124 ratings — published 1996
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,617 ratings — published 1866
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,573 ratings — published 1868
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,969,625 ratings — published 1813
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.00 — 778,255 ratings — published 2003
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.25 — 104,931 ratings — published 1996
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.33 — 304,198 ratings — published 2014
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,528,248 ratings — published 1897
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.57 — 631,312 ratings — published 1851
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,982,188 ratings — published 1818
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,910 ratings — published 1967
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,396,179 ratings — published 1847
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,398,316 ratings — published 2018
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,222,064 ratings — published 1954
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,179,884 ratings — published 1991
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.99 — 901,165 ratings — published 1961
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,473 ratings — published 1949
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.17 — 610,879 ratings — published 2011
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,070,111 ratings — published 1846
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,132 ratings — published 1890
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 13 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.17 — 808,676 ratings — published 2005
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,691,490 ratings — published 1965
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,269,879 ratings — published 1847
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.31 — 698,402 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,728,611 ratings — published 1997
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.40 — 409,110 ratings — published 1879
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,098,066 ratings — published 1925
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.19 — 609,702 ratings — published 1990
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.88 — 261,420 ratings — published 2004
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,705 ratings — published 1979
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,542 ratings — published 1980
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,783 ratings — published 1997
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,103 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.87 — 972,066 ratings — published 1955
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,472,831 ratings — published 2016
The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.14 — 432,085 ratings — published 1993
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.27 — 993,315 ratings — published 2015
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.08 — 528,263 ratings — published 2006
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.94 — 530,158 ratings — published -750
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,535,229 ratings — published 2012
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,045,020 ratings — published 1998
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,336,760 ratings — published 2011
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as back-burner)
avg rating 3.69 — 411,110 ratings — published 1957
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.14 — 239,993 ratings — published 1985
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.45 — 700,417 ratings — published 1952
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as back-burner)
avg rating 4.66 — 715,133 ratings — published 2010
“When we crave the touch and the feel of an unfeigned world, we must not waver and put our quest on the back burner, but scratch anxiously the shining shell of a fair-weather world, find out how to discover real values; and foster a candid quality of our desire ("Absence of Desire" )”
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