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Classic Books
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Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12281 times as classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,800,235 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 10614 times as classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,882,610 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 10347 times as classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,913,871 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9072 times as classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,457,611 ratings — published 1949
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 8755 times as classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,322,449 ratings — published 1847
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8309 times as classic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,548,415 ratings — published 1945
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 7601 times as classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,048,966 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 7378 times as classic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,877,296 ratings — published 1890
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7191 times as classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,886,727 ratings — published 1818
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 7131 times as classic)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,459,545 ratings — published 1868
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 6787 times as classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,892,343 ratings — published 1951
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6135 times as classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,199,196 ratings — published 1954
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5931 times as classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,834,634 ratings — published 1937
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5847 times as classic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,821,796 ratings — published 1590
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5804 times as classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,835,343 ratings — published 1953
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 5584 times as classic)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,475,381 ratings — published 1897
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 5410 times as classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,295,749 ratings — published 1811
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 5292 times as classic)
avg rating 4.05 — 982,728 ratings — published 1815
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 4829 times as classic)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,023,044 ratings — published 1844
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 4738 times as classic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,336,786 ratings — published 1885
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4595 times as classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,453,646 ratings — published 1937
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4559 times as classic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,079,549 ratings — published 1866
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 4496 times as classic)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,012,347 ratings — published 1859
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 4315 times as classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 776,820 ratings — published 1817
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4277 times as classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,076,201 ratings — published 1932
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 4213 times as classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 938,800 ratings — published 1843
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4165 times as classic)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,295,758 ratings — published 1911
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 4164 times as classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 873,768 ratings — published 1861
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4083 times as classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 931,139 ratings — published 1878
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4057 times as classic)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,476,291 ratings — published 1943
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4049 times as classic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,192,075 ratings — published -800
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3831 times as classic)
avg rating 3.44 — 919,503 ratings — published 1850
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3745 times as classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,050,406 ratings — published 1601
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 3706 times as classic)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,112,991 ratings — published 1908
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3704 times as classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,312,069 ratings — published 1952
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3580 times as classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,426,186 ratings — published 1915
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3451 times as classic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,020,018 ratings — published 1623
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3366 times as classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,018,376 ratings — published 1876
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3303 times as classic)
avg rating 4.21 — 843,612 ratings — published 1862
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3122 times as classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 993,999 ratings — published 1939
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3089 times as classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,190,820 ratings — published 1947
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3088 times as classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 720,146 ratings — published 1938
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3082 times as classic)
avg rating 3.83 — 664,955 ratings — published 1886
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3032 times as classic)
avg rating 3.85 — 453,583 ratings — published 1817
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 2990 times as classic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,148,567 ratings — published 1954
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2976 times as classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,399,695 ratings — published 1942
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2869 times as classic)
avg rating 3.57 — 615,741 ratings — published 1851
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2866 times as classic)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,256,588 ratings — published 1936
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2834 times as classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 945,252 ratings — published 1955
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2833 times as classic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,220,204 ratings — published 1963
“I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina












