100 books
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Historic Books
Showing 1-50 of 28,525
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 174 times as historic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,935,983 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as historic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,268,887 ratings — published 1947
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as historic)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,171,725 ratings — published 1991
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as historic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,921,276 ratings — published 1813
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as historic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,090,723 ratings — published 2011
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as historic)
avg rating 4.35 — 846,300 ratings — published 1989
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as historic)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,030,694 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as historic)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,265,965 ratings — published 2015
The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as historic)
avg rating 3.79 — 726,569 ratings — published 2000
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as historic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,017,793 ratings — published 1960
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as historic)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,407,784 ratings — published 2018
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as historic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,129,408 ratings — published 1997
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as historic)
avg rating 3.99 — 509,102 ratings — published 2000
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as historic)
avg rating 4.34 — 390,569 ratings — published 1992
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as historic)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,061,708 ratings — published 2009
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as historic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,374,672 ratings — published 1847
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as historic)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,197,364 ratings — published 2018
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as historic)
avg rating 4.14 — 401,894 ratings — published 1980
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as historic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,387,583 ratings — published 1956
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as historic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,270,267 ratings — published 2017
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as historic)
avg rating 4.16 — 989,083 ratings — published 2006
Voyager (Outlander, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as historic)
avg rating 4.39 — 334,832 ratings — published 1993
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as historic)
avg rating 4.33 — 280,812 ratings — published 2007
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as historic)
avg rating 4.33 — 352,187 ratings — published 2005
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as historic)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,506,898 ratings — published 1868
An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as historic)
avg rating 3.94 — 438,792 ratings — published 2001
Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4)
by (shelved 47 times as historic)
avg rating 3.87 — 444,158 ratings — published 2002
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as historic)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,318,641 ratings — published 1811
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as historic)
avg rating 4.34 — 660,910 ratings — published 2017
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as historic)
avg rating 4.19 — 822,729 ratings — published 2008
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as historic)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,578,823 ratings — published 2020
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as historic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,042,390 ratings — published 1925
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as historic)
avg rating 4.11 — 285,834 ratings — published 1980
Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as historic)
avg rating 4.36 — 272,457 ratings — published 1996
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as historic)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,054,920 ratings — published 1846
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as historic)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,715,572 ratings — published 2024
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as historic)
avg rating 4.13 — 513,250 ratings — published 2022
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as historic)
avg rating 4.36 — 283,170 ratings — published 2011
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as historic)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,848,950 ratings — published 2022
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as historic)
avg rating 4.04 — 571,905 ratings — published 1985
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 40 times as historic)
avg rating 4.09 — 516,984 ratings — published 2001
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as historic)
avg rating 4.02 — 146,867 ratings — published 2017
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons, #5)
by (shelved 39 times as historic)
avg rating 3.69 — 321,648 ratings — published 2003
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as historic)
avg rating 4.31 — 737,976 ratings — published 2001
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as historic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,237,883 ratings — published 1847
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as historic)
avg rating 4.35 — 264,205 ratings — published 2016
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as historic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,557,518 ratings — published 2003
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as historic)
avg rating 3.94 — 586,146 ratings — published -500
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as historic)
avg rating 4.30 — 884,332 ratings — published 2010
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as historic)
avg rating 4.00 — 772,553 ratings — published 2003
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