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Contemporary Classics Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,647,394 ratings — published 1948
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,031,436 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,508,982 ratings — published 1985
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,966,078 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,277,324 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,055,645 ratings — published 1925
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,564,189 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,941,595 ratings — published 2005
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,510,126 ratings — published 1969
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,931,025 ratings — published 1963
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,709,021 ratings — published 1945
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,271,296 ratings — published 1954
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 897,940 ratings — published 1961
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,131,907 ratings — published 1967
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,086,803 ratings — published 1992
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,068,647 ratings — published 2006
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,123,817 ratings — published 1932
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 890,720 ratings — published 2005
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,681,834 ratings — published 1988
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,866,085 ratings — published 1993
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,905,136 ratings — published 1937
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 966,634 ratings — published 1955
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,475,560 ratings — published 1942
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,653,888 ratings — published 1997
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,658,375 ratings — published 1967
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,043,017 ratings — published 1999
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,160 ratings — published 1962
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.96 — 572,833 ratings — published 2001
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 784,426 ratings — published 1962
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,774,383 ratings — published 2001
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,131,301 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 — 1,619,920 ratings — published 2003
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,350,076 ratings — published 1952
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,501,913 ratings — published 1915
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 747,903 ratings — published 1938
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 558,672 ratings — published 1984
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.24 — 824,215 ratings — published 1966
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 504,873 ratings — published 1987
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 555,807 ratings — published 1985
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,443 ratings — published 1982
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.45 — 681,469 ratings — published 1952
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 573,532 ratings — published 1985
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,560,358 ratings — published 1937
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 375,491 ratings — published 1989
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,013,900 ratings — published 1939
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,980 ratings — published 1958
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 746,129 ratings — published 1966
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.27 — 978,118 ratings — published 2015
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,946,772 ratings — published 2018
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 278,344 ratings — published 1956
