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Contemporary Classics Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,515,998 ratings — published 1948
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,926,713 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,447,836 ratings — published 1985
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,913,311 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,955,466 ratings — published 1925
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,236,984 ratings — published 1963
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,512,934 ratings — published 2003
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,863,562 ratings — published 1953
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,896,646 ratings — published 2005
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,490,365 ratings — published 1969
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,596,262 ratings — published 1945
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 889,692 ratings — published 1961
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,218,940 ratings — published 1954
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,112,508 ratings — published 1967
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,090,212 ratings — published 1932
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 863,597 ratings — published 2005
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,599,916 ratings — published 1988
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,824,186 ratings — published 1993
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,855,213 ratings — published 1937
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,043,902 ratings — published 1992
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,420,860 ratings — published 1942
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 951,525 ratings — published 1955
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,045,359 ratings — published 2006
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,617,992 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,483,361 ratings — published 1997
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,012,750 ratings — published 1999
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 782,802 ratings — published 1962
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 773,737 ratings — published 1962
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 565,915 ratings — published 2001
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,759,296 ratings — published 2001
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,116,219 ratings — published 1997
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,603,296 ratings — published 2003
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,322,966 ratings — published 1952
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,447,287 ratings — published 1915
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 727,937 ratings — published 1938
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 548,122 ratings — published 1984
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.24 — 802,549 ratings — published 1966
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 549,357 ratings — published 1985
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 756,040 ratings — published 1982
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.44 — 648,418 ratings — published 1952
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 558,981 ratings — published 1985
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,479,794 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 999,473 ratings — published 1939
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 252,590 ratings — published 1958
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 363,817 ratings — published 1989
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 494,068 ratings — published 1987
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 733,886 ratings — published 1966
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,026,054 ratings — published 1979
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.18 — 646,411 ratings — published 1996
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 365,468 ratings — published 1991
