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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,623,648 ratings — published 1948
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,918,848 ratings — published 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,011,575 ratings — published 1960
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,120,187 ratings — published 1866
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,687,864 ratings — published 1945
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,117,791 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 — 1,367,477 ratings — published 2018
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,261,076 ratings — published 1954
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,036,643 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,916,161 ratings — published 1813
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,954,999 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 — 2,048,209 ratings — published 1979
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,943,525 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 — 1,506,512 ratings — published 1969
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.39 — 401,717 ratings — published 1880
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,128,392 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 — 2,544,307 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 — 1,465,001 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 — 502,810 ratings — published 1987
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.37 — 910,664 ratings — published 1946
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.57 — 626,151 ratings — published 1851
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,933,289 ratings — published 2005
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.99 — 896,406 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 — 2,372,468 ratings — published 1847
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as essentials)
avg rating 3.84 — 391,022 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 — 1,053,291 ratings — published 1846
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,504,828 ratings — published 1868
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.11 — 951,026 ratings — published 1878
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,297,349 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 — 176,252 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,201,634 ratings — published 1954
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.45 — 673,871 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 — 229,822 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 — 1,079,145 ratings — published 1992
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as essentials)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,670,342 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 — 964,136 ratings — published 1955
“It’s hurtful somehow to admit this thing and anyway that doesn’t mean i’m losing my faith in this beautiful world. But these days now is the time where people have become so much more-excuse me-shallow. When all of the fancy things and outer beauty are demanded, and those who are lost enough to chase and manage to get those things, they will happen to get very nice response from social and able to expand their images and get famous and be seen as someone who has value. Meanwhile those who could see deeper and their souls are insecure of this mad world, they will have smaller space in width but they will dig deeper and deeper into their self, making space in height, finding the true meaning of their souls, the true essential unshakable truth that’s beyond the fragile material worldly things.”
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“The USA is a workaholics culture, as life essentials depend on having a job like health care, dental care and the pension plan.”
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