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The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as collections)
avg rating 4.40 — 299,185 ratings — published 1849
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as collections)
avg rating 4.23 — 222,806 ratings — published 1812
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 78 times as collections)
avg rating 4.25 — 129,856 ratings — published 2002
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as collections)
avg rating 3.80 — 108,491 ratings — published 2017
The Complete Works (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 63 times as collections)
avg rating 4.48 — 57,881 ratings — published 1623
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as collections)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,734 ratings — published 1998
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as collections)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,655 ratings — published 1979
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 56 times as collections)
avg rating 4.51 — 219,032 ratings — published 1887
Different Seasons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as collections)
avg rating 4.36 — 224,469 ratings — published 1982
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as collections)
avg rating 4.27 — 115,655 ratings — published 2019
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as collections)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,150 ratings — published 2006
Skeleton Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as collections)
avg rating 3.97 — 140,052 ratings — published 1985
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as collections)
avg rating 4.04 — 201,738 ratings — published 1978
Full Dark, No Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as collections)
avg rating 4.09 — 119,463 ratings — published 2011
The Illustrated Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as collections)
avg rating 4.13 — 109,691 ratings — published 1951
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as collections)
avg rating 4.35 — 39,945 ratings — published 2016
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 44 times as collections)
avg rating 4.28 — 717,580 ratings — published 1956
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as collections)
avg rating 3.73 — 44,864 ratings — published 2017
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as collections)
avg rating 4.16 — 290,674 ratings — published 1950
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 40 times as collections)
avg rating 4.30 — 331,219 ratings — published 1892
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as collections)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,313 ratings — published 2015
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as collections)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,829 ratings — published 1993
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as collections)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,570 ratings — published
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 38 times as collections)
avg rating 4.54 — 742,630 ratings — published 1959
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as collections)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,211 ratings — published 1999
Everything's Eventual (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as collections)
avg rating 3.97 — 110,371 ratings — published 2002
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as collections)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,120 ratings — published 2016
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as collections)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,306 ratings — published 1949
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
by (shelved 36 times as collections)
avg rating 4.38 — 341,064 ratings — published 1996
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as collections)
avg rating 4.03 — 515,756 ratings — published 2008
Four Past Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as collections)
avg rating 3.95 — 117,180 ratings — published 1990
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as collections)
avg rating 3.91 — 69,284 ratings — published 2015
20th Century Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as collections)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,279 ratings — published 2005
Just After Sunset (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as collections)
avg rating 3.88 — 61,463 ratings — published 2008
The October Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as collections)
avg rating 4.09 — 22,022 ratings — published 1955
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as collections)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,199 ratings — published 2005
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as collections)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,424 ratings — published 1981
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as collections)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,651,983 ratings — published 1997
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as collections)
avg rating 3.79 — 67,709 ratings — published 2009
Salt Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as collections)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,616 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as collections)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,597,674 ratings — published 1998
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as collections)
avg rating 3.83 — 182,196 ratings — published 1914
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as collections)
avg rating 4.01 — 726,358 ratings — published 2000
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as collections)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,595 ratings — published -560
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as collections)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,964,543 ratings — published 1999
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as collections)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,227 ratings — published 1971
Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as collections)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,384 ratings — published 2013
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as collections)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,356 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 27 times as collections)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,288,900 ratings — published 2000
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as collections)
avg rating 3.84 — 33,338 ratings — published 2023
“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”
― The House of Paper
― The House of Paper
“This has led some scholars to suggest that collecting is a way of managing fears about death by creating a form of immortality. This is consistent with a popular theory in social psychology called the terror management theory (TMT). TMT grows out of an existential predicament--that people, like animals, are mortal. But unlike animals, we are aware of our own mortality. Knowledge of the inevitability of death and its unpredictability can produce paralyzing fear. To cope with this potential terror, cultures provide beliefs, rituals, and sanctioned strategies for managing it. One of these strategies is the belief that some part of ourselves can live on after we die. Producing or amassing something of value is one way to accomplish this. Thus a collection offers the potential for immortality.”
― Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
― Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
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