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Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 789 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,023 ratings — published 1813
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 762 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,803 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 660 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,661 ratings — published 1960
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 644 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,738 ratings — published 1847
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 629 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,379 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,714 ratings — published 1818
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 573 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,541,929 ratings — published 1948
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 571 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,379 ratings — published 1890
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 540 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,791 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 529 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,617,994 ratings — published 1945
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 483 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,483,078 ratings — published 1868
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 453 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,864,634 ratings — published 1937
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 451 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,330 ratings — published 1954
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,840,327 ratings — published 1590
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 424 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,306,742 ratings — published 1811
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 424 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,876,402 ratings — published 1953
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,493,752 ratings — published 1897
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 993,587 ratings — published 1815
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 925,776 ratings — published 1850
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,036,678 ratings — published 1844
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 361 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,342,348 ratings — published 1885
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,886 ratings — published 1878
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,206,195 ratings — published -800
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 785,876 ratings — published 1817
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,018,292 ratings — published 1859
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 879,639 ratings — published 1861
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,885 ratings — published 1866
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,062,457 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,030,069 ratings — published 1623
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,096,657 ratings — published 1932
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,457,693 ratings — published 1915
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,002,124 ratings — published 1939
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 946,542 ratings — published 1843
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,244,881 ratings — published 1963
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 262 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,361 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,327,989 ratings — published 1952
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 458,799 ratings — published 1817
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 848,430 ratings — published 1862
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.44 — 653,759 ratings — published 1952
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,431,015 ratings — published 1942
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 582,170 ratings — published 1595
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,306,725 ratings — published 1911
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,495,523 ratings — published 1937
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,403 ratings — published 1851
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,025,869 ratings — published 1876
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,985 ratings — published 1969
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 514,968 ratings — published -800
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 382,435 ratings — published 1814
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 208 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 731,757 ratings — published 1938
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 673,195 ratings — published 1886
“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
“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
