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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,623,635 ratings — published 1948
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,918,841 ratings — published 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,011,560 ratings — published 1960
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,120,183 ratings — published 1866
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,687,850 ratings — published 1945
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,117,788 ratings — published 1932
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,956,598 ratings — published 1951
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,367,475 ratings — published 2018
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,261,070 ratings — published 1954
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,036,637 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,916,153 ratings — published 1813
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,954,995 ratings — published 1818
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,048,203 ratings — published 1979
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,943,522 ratings — published 1890
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,270,172 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,506,510 ratings — published 1969
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.39 — 401,716 ratings — published 1880
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,128,389 ratings — published 1967
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.91 — 310,810 ratings — published 1605
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,544,302 ratings — published 1943
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,073,909 ratings — published 1601
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,464,996 ratings — published 1942
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.17 — 372,399 ratings — published 1869
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.98 — 502,807 ratings — published 1987
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.37 — 910,660 ratings — published 1946
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.57 — 626,148 ratings — published 1851
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,933,281 ratings — published 2005
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.99 — 896,404 ratings — published 1961
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.28 — 366,653 ratings — published 180
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,545,946 ratings — published 1937
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,372,462 ratings — published 1847
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.84 — 391,020 ratings — published 1532
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,233,902 ratings — published 1847
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,265,344 ratings — published 1947
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,667,183 ratings — published 1988
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,053,290 ratings — published 1846
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,504,827 ratings — published 1868
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.11 — 951,023 ratings — published 1878
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,297,347 ratings — published 2011
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,222,910 ratings — published -700
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.09 — 176,251 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,201,633 ratings — published 1954
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.45 — 673,863 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,011,140 ratings — published 1939
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.97 — 229,821 ratings — published -400
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.28 — 435,765 ratings — published 1967
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,079,140 ratings — published 1992
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,670,333 ratings — published 1965
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.76 — 140,017 ratings — published 1922
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.87 — 964,135 ratings — published 1955
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