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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,581,038 ratings — published 1948
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,918,628 ratings — published 2005
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,024,400 ratings — published 2017
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as impactful)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,640,861 ratings — published 1988
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,537,523 ratings — published 2003
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,477,592 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,977,005 ratings — published 1960
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,027,632 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,766,546 ratings — published 2007
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,257,179 ratings — published 1963
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,218,947 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,650,659 ratings — published 1945
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,705,633 ratings — published 2016
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,844,467 ratings — published 1993
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,785,049 ratings — published 2012
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,244,887 ratings — published 1947
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.27 — 959,632 ratings — published 2015
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,903,780 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,380,304 ratings — published 1956
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.10 — 437,079 ratings — published 2020
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,287,530 ratings — published 2011
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,062,724 ratings — published 2011
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as impactful)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,939,970 ratings — published 1951
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,012,934 ratings — published 2014
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.37 — 901,500 ratings — published 1946
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.41 — 824,693 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 3.85 — 877,087 ratings — published 2005
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,350,220 ratings — published 2018
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,538,381 ratings — published 2020
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.08 — 891,309 ratings — published 1922
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.16 — 982,509 ratings — published 2006
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,763,347 ratings — published 2005
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,227,292 ratings — published 1997
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,380,866 ratings — published 2005
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,243,013 ratings — published 1954
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,282,472 ratings — published 2004
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.14 — 499,760 ratings — published 2022
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,534,308 ratings — published 2022
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,355 ratings — published 2020
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,064,795 ratings — published 1992
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,453,134 ratings — published 2017
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,391,213 ratings — published 2018
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,926,332 ratings — published 1890
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,215,855 ratings — published 2018
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.01 — 815,490 ratings — published 2003
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,219,775 ratings — published 2015
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 4.07 — 479,386 ratings — published 2012
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,003,738 ratings — published 1925
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,896,916 ratings — published 1953
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as impactful)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,029,689 ratings — published 2007
“That is what Frederick is like. He’s part man, part
fantasy. He gathers your wild imaginings about him,
wraps them around himself like a garment. Until
eventually he is a figure made mostly of the mystery you
endowed him with yourself.
And you don’t try to unravel it. Because you’re afraid
that all you’d have left is a pair of brown eyes and a
limp. And by that point, you’ve already given him so
much.”
― Puck's Legacy
fantasy. He gathers your wild imaginings about him,
wraps them around himself like a garment. Until
eventually he is a figure made mostly of the mystery you
endowed him with yourself.
And you don’t try to unravel it. Because you’re afraid
that all you’d have left is a pair of brown eyes and a
limp. And by that point, you’ve already given him so
much.”
― Puck's Legacy
“If I had made another choice that night, would
my life have been less pursued by ghosts? Or just
significantly shorter?”
― Puck's Legacy
my life have been less pursued by ghosts? Or just
significantly shorter?”
― Puck's Legacy
