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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,662,493 ratings — published 2015
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,888,842 ratings — published 1997
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,223,695 ratings — published 2015
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,891,457 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,336,738 ratings — published 2008
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,659,286 ratings — published 1937
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,544,161 ratings — published 2005
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,740,391 ratings — published 2012
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,251,009 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,081,937 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,700,444 ratings — published 1998
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,534,747 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 18 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,258,393 ratings — published 2007
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,364,658 ratings — published 2009
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,996,002 ratings — published 2017
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 17 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,953,216 ratings — published 2003
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,901,781 ratings — published 2010
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,380,826 ratings — published 2000
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,035,015 ratings — published 2023
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,026,206 ratings — published 2013
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 16 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,800,987 ratings — published 2005
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,144,690 ratings — published 2011
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,120,992 ratings — published 2020
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,209,542 ratings — published 2011
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,580,642 ratings — published 2005
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,351,811 ratings — published 2011
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.56 — 814,066 ratings — published 2016
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
by (shelved 14 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,386,547 ratings — published 2018
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,056,609 ratings — published 2019
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.15 — 560,343 ratings — published 2018
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,806,136 ratings — published 2014
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,830,744 ratings — published 1996
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.06 — 788,916 ratings — published 2021
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,172,157 ratings — published 2019
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.97 — 993,792 ratings — published 2016
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,222,296 ratings — published 2007
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,241,199 ratings — published 1950
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,125,099 ratings — published 2007
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,651,106 ratings — published 1995
A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #5)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,342,506 ratings — published 2021
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,166,214 ratings — published 2020
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,500,272 ratings — published 2018
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,710,524 ratings — published 2020
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,636,090 ratings — published 2015
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,047,524 ratings — published 2007
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.35 — 759,131 ratings — published 2011
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.30 — 891,825 ratings — published 2010
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,540,476 ratings — published 2005
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,721,037 ratings — published 1965
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,190,389 ratings — published 2006
“Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very young age to hate himself for what his mother had done to him. (...) But not once did he allow himself to direct his endless, justified rage at the true culprit, the woman who had kept him locked up in her prison for as long as she could. All his life he attempted to free himself of that prison, with the help of drugs, travel, illusions, and above all poetry. But in all these desperate efforts to open the doors that would have led to liberation, one of them remained obstinently shut, the most important one: the door to the emotional reality of his childhood, to the feelings of the little child who was forced to grow up with a severely disturbed, malevolent woman, with no father to protect him from her.”
― The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
― The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”
― The Five Orange Pips
― The Five Orange Pips
