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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,542,169 ratings — published 1948
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,415 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,855 ratings — published 1960
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,186 ratings — published 1813
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,007,409 ratings — published 2008
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,971 ratings — published 1925
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,516,340 ratings — published 1997
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,483 ratings — published 1890
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,617,646 ratings — published 1988
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,860 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,944 ratings — published 1866
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,483,129 ratings — published 1868
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,096,710 ratings — published 1932
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,393 ratings — published 1955
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,618,181 ratings — published 1945
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,495,643 ratings — published 1937
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,038,096 ratings — published 2011
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,471,460 ratings — published 2005
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,407,873 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,876,506 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,460,062 ratings — published 1985
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,018,517 ratings — published 1999
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,202 ratings — published 1961
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,419 ratings — published 1954
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,633 ratings — published 1847
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,303,153 ratings — published 2015
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,168,291 ratings — published 2015
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,705 ratings — published 2003
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.80 — 879,655 ratings — published 1861
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,493,803 ratings — published 1897
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,294 ratings — published 1967
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,018,303 ratings — published 1859
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,819 ratings — published 1869
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,645,601 ratings — published 1965
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,002,140 ratings — published 1939
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,244,949 ratings — published 1963
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,179,511 ratings — published 2017
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,765,421 ratings — published 2018
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.21 — 848,442 ratings — published 1862
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,183,669 ratings — published 2015
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,000,489 ratings — published 2014
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,631,194 ratings — published 2012
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,760,730 ratings — published 2010
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,828,163 ratings — published 2003
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,203 ratings — published 1954
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,776 ratings — published 1847
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,541,243 ratings — published 2020
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,540,053 ratings — published 1998
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as book-list)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,836 ratings — published 2015
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as book-list)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,265,156 ratings — published 2012
“He wanted to know what the current trends were. What were people reading? What did I think about the decline in reading overall?
I told him that the books aimed at children and teens that were selling were the ones the Ministry of Education had promoted as ‘library recommendations’, and that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents.
‘Parents these days don’t read books themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren’t readers, they have no idea what to give their children. That’s why they cling to the recommendations from the Ministry of Education. Those books are all insufferably boring and, as a result, the kids learn to hate books; it’s a vicious circle, with no end in sight.”
― Malice
I told him that the books aimed at children and teens that were selling were the ones the Ministry of Education had promoted as ‘library recommendations’, and that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents.
‘Parents these days don’t read books themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren’t readers, they have no idea what to give their children. That’s why they cling to the recommendations from the Ministry of Education. Those books are all insufferably boring and, as a result, the kids learn to hate books; it’s a vicious circle, with no end in sight.”
― Malice
