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Classic Lit Books
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Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 759 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,674,449 ratings — published 1813
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 731 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,774,062 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 635 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,733,273 ratings — published 1960
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 619 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,274,847 ratings — published 1846
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 570 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,973,792 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,282,885 ratings — published 1949
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 535 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,787,438 ratings — published 1818
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 526 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,804,933 ratings — published 1890
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,823,161 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,402,405 ratings — published 1945
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 465 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,408,541 ratings — published 1868
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,136,790 ratings — published 1954
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,770,650 ratings — published 1937
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 424 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,780,943 ratings — published 1590
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 409 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,273,791 ratings — published 1811
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 405 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,746,487 ratings — published 1953
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 386 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,426,534 ratings — published 1897
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 957,727 ratings — published 1815
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 905,135 ratings — published 1850
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,323,448 ratings — published 1884
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 999,670 ratings — published 1846
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 912,624 ratings — published 1878
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 757,901 ratings — published 1817
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,164,824 ratings — published -700
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,000,194 ratings — published 1859
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 861,441 ratings — published 1861
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,037,835 ratings — published 1866
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,026,476 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 998,486 ratings — published 1623
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,260,927 ratings — published 1932
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,359,331 ratings — published 1915
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 976,880 ratings — published 1939
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,171,359 ratings — published 1963
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 254 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 925,517 ratings — published 1955
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 900,621 ratings — published 1843
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 251 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,277,156 ratings — published 1952
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 442,519 ratings — published 1817
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 833,825 ratings — published 1862
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 570,604 ratings — published 1595
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.43 — 610,973 ratings — published 1952
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,271,079 ratings — published 1911
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,372,033 ratings — published 1937
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,335,549 ratings — published 1942
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 373,889 ratings — published 1814
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,458,990 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,002,265 ratings — published 1876
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.56 — 606,076 ratings — published 1851
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 498,354 ratings — published -800
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 204 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 704,140 ratings — published 1938
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,347,620 ratings — published 1985
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he felt an actual joy in the idea that he had, perhaps, a tumor that would prove fatal, that he need not concern himself with anything further, since it was this malady that was going to govern his life, to make a plaything of him, until the not-distant end. If indeed, at his period, it often happened that, though without admitting it even to himself, he longed for death, it was in order to escape not so much from the keenness of his sufferings as from the monotony of his struggle.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“rotted down from manhood by their hopeless misery on the isle; wonted to cringe in all things to their lord, himself the worst of slaves; these wretches were now become wholly corrupted to his hands. He used them as creatures of an interior race; in short, he gaffles his four animals, and makes murderers of them; out of cowards fitly manufacturing bravoes.”
― The Encantadas and Other Stories
― The Encantadas and Other Stories
