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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as essential)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,542,027 ratings — published 1948
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as essential)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,096 ratings — published 1813
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as essential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,096,684 ratings — published 1932
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as essential)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,618,070 ratings — published 1945
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as essential)
avg rating 4.37 — 893,511 ratings — published 1946
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as essential)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,749 ratings — published 1960
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as essential)
avg rating 3.93 — 514,973 ratings — published -800
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as essential)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,279 ratings — published 1967
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as essential)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,422 ratings — published 1890
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,916 ratings — published 1866
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as essential)
avg rating 4.28 — 357,360 ratings — published 180
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as essential)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,206,212 ratings — published -800
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as essential)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,760 ratings — published 1847
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as essential)
avg rating 3.94 — 578,204 ratings — published -500
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as essential)
avg rating 3.43 — 562,847 ratings — published 1899
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as essential)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,404 ratings — published 1851
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as essential)
avg rating 4.39 — 393,345 ratings — published 1880
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as essential)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,488 ratings — published 1847
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as essential)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,198 ratings — published 1320
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as essential)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,511,367 ratings — published 1943
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as essential)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,876,449 ratings — published 1953
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as essential)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,894 ratings — published 1878
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as essential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,062,470 ratings — published 1601
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as essential)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,624 ratings — published 2015
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as essential)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,160,637 ratings — published 1936
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as essential)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,828 ratings — published 1951
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as essential)
avg rating 4.54 — 735,358 ratings — published 1959
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as essential)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,866 ratings — published 1925
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as essential)
avg rating 4.16 — 827,690 ratings — published 1989
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as essential)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,835 ratings — published 2018
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as essential)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,375 ratings — published 1955
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as essential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,617,589 ratings — published 1988
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as essential)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,371 ratings — published 1954
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as essential)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,756 ratings — published 1818
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as essential)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,864 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as essential)
avg rating 4.17 — 595,662 ratings — published 2011
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as essential)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,933 ratings — published 1615
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as essential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,431,048 ratings — published 1942
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as essential)
avg rating 4.44 — 653,782 ratings — published 1952
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as essential)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,457,731 ratings — published 1915
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as essential)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,036,690 ratings — published 1844
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as essential)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,018,298 ratings — published 1859
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as essential)
avg rating 3.94 — 401,965 ratings — published 1925
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as essential)
avg rating 4.08 — 886,474 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as essential)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,516,196 ratings — published 1997
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as essential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,995 ratings — published 1969
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as essential)
avg rating 4.10 — 550,132 ratings — published 1984
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as essential)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,647 ratings — published 2007
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as essential)
avg rating 4.17 — 236,772 ratings — published 1864
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as essential)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,493,772 ratings — published 1897
“If we only live through the eyes of the others and don’t try to capture the vibration of our own individual experience, we may miss out the beam and brilliance of authenticity that is essential to move forward in life”
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“Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.”
― The Papers of George Washington: March-April 1778 (Volume 14)
― The Papers of George Washington: March-April 1778 (Volume 14)
