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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,302,948 ratings — published 2015
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,516,228 ratings — published 1997
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,168,268 ratings — published 2015
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,765,385 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,007,308 ratings — published 2008
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,495,576 ratings — published 1937
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,365,077 ratings — published 2005
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,186 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,539,979 ratings — published 1998
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,475,433 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 19 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,141,046 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,895,836 ratings — published 1999
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,265,144 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 17 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,686,724 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 17 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,828,109 ratings — published 2003
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,108,085 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,235,240 ratings — published 2000
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,202,111 ratings — published 2009
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,759,309 ratings — published 2017
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,471,421 ratings — published 2005
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,311,828 ratings — published 2011
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,760,689 ratings — published 2010
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,647,920 ratings — published 2023
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,812,419 ratings — published 2013
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,038,031 ratings — published 2011
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.57 — 779,117 ratings — published 2016
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,008,504 ratings — published 2020
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.33 — 984,131 ratings — published 2019
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.16 — 500,377 ratings — published 2018
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,607,601 ratings — published 2014
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,755,013 ratings — published 1996
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,092,465 ratings — published 2019
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.97 — 902,562 ratings — published 2016
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,181,813 ratings — published 2007
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,172,244 ratings — published 1950
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,092,113 ratings — published 2007
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,625,123 ratings — published 1995
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,376,846 ratings — published 2018
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,181,702 ratings — published 2018
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,512,438 ratings — published 2020
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,447,239 ratings — published 2015
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,006,239 ratings — published 2007
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.34 — 742,708 ratings — published 2011
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.30 — 879,914 ratings — published 2010
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,468,922 ratings — published 2005
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,645,573 ratings — published 1965
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,031,012 ratings — published 1979
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as escapism)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,142,295 ratings — published 2006
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.06 — 689,299 ratings — published 2021
A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #5)
by (shelved 10 times as escapism)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,132,428 ratings — published 2021
“Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.”
― Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
― Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
