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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.86 — 283,271 ratings — published 2008
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,503,751 ratings — published 2017
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,015,339 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,475,004 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,138,842 ratings — published 1992
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,021,081 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,327,382 ratings — published 1963
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.14 — 389,675 ratings — published 1989
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,290,374 ratings — published 2012
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 629,029 ratings — published 2014
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.09 — 453,994 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.58 — 629,052 ratings — published 2018
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,026,691 ratings — published 1951
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.46 — 919,164 ratings — published 2022
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.66 — 414,394 ratings — published 2016
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.31 — 712,966 ratings — published 2016
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,089,731 ratings — published 2013
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,961,331 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,813,223 ratings — published 2018
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.55 — 137,971 ratings — published 2015
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.78 — 412,612 ratings — published 2024
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,168,175 ratings — published 1925
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,020,881 ratings — published 1818
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,495,105 ratings — published 2018
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.65 — 467,464 ratings — published 2007
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,638,738 ratings — published 2003
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,481,296 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,358,821 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.11 — 887,387 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.90 — 325,442 ratings — published 1962
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 983,533 ratings — published 1955
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,543,897 ratings — published 1942
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.77 — 378,268 ratings — published 1925
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,571,732 ratings — published 2012
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.06 — 520,230 ratings — published 2011
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 224,403 ratings — published 2003
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.03 — 733,048 ratings — published 1995
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,482,396 ratings — published 2024
Annie Bot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.82 — 81,873 ratings — published 2024
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.07 — 526,411 ratings — published 2021
The Librarianist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.40 — 26,071 ratings — published
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.16 — 264,240 ratings — published 1864
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,703,729 ratings — published 2020
Writers & Lovers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.96 — 242,726 ratings — published 2020
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.36 — 311,601 ratings — published 1965
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,020,969 ratings — published 1890
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,990,938 ratings — published 2005
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 612,030 ratings — published 2012
The Sense of an Ending (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.75 — 200,033 ratings — published 2011
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.42 — 965,422 ratings — published 2025
“Why was it that everyone she met looked so much worse up close?”
― The Paragon
― The Paragon
“He does not want to reflect on whether they’re confusing love with loyalty at this point, or that the children who have been the glue are devolving into its antidote, or, and this is too cynical, he knows, that the two of them are held together by a deeply rooted laziness, an abhorrence to having to dismantle their cluttered, complicated household and divvy up all the useless and embarrassing suburban crap they’ve accumulated lo these many years.”
― Good Eggs
― Good Eggs