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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 223 times as best)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,886,999 ratings — published 1997
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as best)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,809,666 ratings — published 1949
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 203 times as best)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,334,901 ratings — published 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as best)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,155,367 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 151 times as best)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,080,960 ratings — published 1999
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as best)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,040,126 ratings — published 1813
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 147 times as best)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,257,717 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 147 times as best)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,993,549 ratings — published 2005
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as best)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,208,650 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 133 times as best)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,800,274 ratings — published 2005
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as best)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,223,408 ratings — published 2015
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 128 times as best)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,952,501 ratings — published 2003
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as best)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,124,902 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 125 times as best)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,379,996 ratings — published 2000
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as best)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,483,406 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as best)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,628,121 ratings — published 2003
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as best)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,142,388 ratings — published 1992
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as best)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,626,620 ratings — published 1943
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 118 times as best)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,699,602 ratings — published 1998
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as best)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,171,094 ratings — published 1866
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as best)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,159,589 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as best)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,029,746 ratings — published 1951
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 109 times as best)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,532,917 ratings — published 2016
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as best)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,779,734 ratings — published 1988
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as best)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,906,017 ratings — published 2012
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as best)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,023,291 ratings — published 2015
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as best)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,830,386 ratings — published 1996
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as best)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,174,034 ratings — published 1925
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 102 times as best)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,363,547 ratings — published 2009
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as best)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,032,365 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as best)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,025,017 ratings — published 1890
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as best)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,847,988 ratings — published 1945
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as best)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,508,451 ratings — published 1985
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as best)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,658,477 ratings — published 1937
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as best)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,083,650 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as best)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,832,499 ratings — published 2007
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as best)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,428,973 ratings — published 1847
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as best)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,580,143 ratings — published 2005
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as best)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,862,116 ratings — published 2016
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as best)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,096,220 ratings — published 2006
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as best)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,081,770 ratings — published 2014
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as best)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,540,086 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as best)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,338,851 ratings — published 2011
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as best)
avg rating 4.46 — 757,904 ratings — published 1952
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as best)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,660,053 ratings — published 2015
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as best)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,504,375 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as best)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,920,234 ratings — published 2021
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as best)
avg rating 4.66 — 734,430 ratings — published 2010
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as best)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,499,508 ratings — published 2018
“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.
[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”
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