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Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,969,547 ratings — published 1813
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 212 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.99 — 449,826 ratings — published 1865
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,040,229 ratings — published 1876
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,060 ratings — published 1890
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 141 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,350,379 ratings — published 1885
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.15 — 803,624 ratings — published 1817
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,328,926 ratings — published 1811
The Three Musketeers (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.10 — 353,454 ratings — published 1844
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,083,320 ratings — published 1601
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,878,242 ratings — published 1590
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.22 — 859,247 ratings — published 1862
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,070,074 ratings — published 1846
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.94 — 590,235 ratings — published 1595
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,049,090 ratings — published 1623
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.17 — 414,167 ratings — published 1895
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,982,143 ratings — published 1818
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.85 — 468,319 ratings — published 1817
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
by (shelved 65 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.00 — 145,475 ratings — published 1871
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,570 ratings — published 1868
The Complete Works (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 60 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.48 — 57,538 ratings — published 1623
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.88 — 73,042 ratings — published 1887
Black Beauty (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.01 — 303,028 ratings — published 1877
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.86 — 388,020 ratings — published 1814
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.78 — 233,578 ratings — published 1611
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,019 ratings — published 1605
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.89 — 446,701 ratings — published 1603
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.02 — 223,671 ratings — published 1831
The Complete Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.16 — 34,134 ratings — published 1888
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,686 ratings — published 1599
The Prince and the Pauper (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.87 — 126,900 ratings — published 1881
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.78 — 109,346 ratings — published 1889
Twenty Years After (Musketeers Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 43 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.09 — 26,419 ratings — published 1845
Roughing It (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,492 ratings — published 1872
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,629 ratings — published 1623
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.91 — 242,573 ratings — published 1605
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,525 ratings — published 1596
Life on the Mississippi (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.87 — 15,741 ratings — published 1883
The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,131 ratings — published 1869
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.96 — 197,670 ratings — published 1623
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.11 — 960,243 ratings — published 1878
The Black Tulip (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,664 ratings — published 1850
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,728,404 ratings — published 1997
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.73 — 183,381 ratings — published 1593
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.06 — 620,998 ratings — published 1871
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.06 — 262,544 ratings — published 1598
Love and Freindship (and Other Early Works)
by (shelved 31 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.51 — 10,129 ratings — published 1787
The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.94 — 45,391 ratings — published 1829
Lady Susan (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.67 — 55,417 ratings — published 1871
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.25 — 114,209 ratings — published 1609
“Making something take longer than necessary is probably the worst example of work ethic and is patently lazy, but looks busy...not cool.”
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“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities. In reading the biography of great men, we are struck with the number of "idlers" among them. They were lazy so long as they had not found the right path; afterwards they became laborious to excess. Darwin, Stephenson, and many others belonged to this category of idlers.”
― The Conquest of Bread
― The Conquest of Bread
