142 books
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13 voters
Lazy Books
Showing 1-50 of 17,157
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,839,141 ratings — published 1813
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.99 — 439,589 ratings — published 1865
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,023,284 ratings — published 1876
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,898,742 ratings — published 1890
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 141 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,340,286 ratings — published 1885
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.15 — 782,510 ratings — published 1817
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,302,863 ratings — published 1811
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,058,124 ratings — published 1601
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,833,569 ratings — published 1590
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,031,578 ratings — published 1844
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.21 — 846,663 ratings — published 1862
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.94 — 580,858 ratings — published 1595
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,026,433 ratings — published 1623
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.17 — 407,402 ratings — published 1895
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,910,956 ratings — published 1818
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.85 — 456,942 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 4.01 — 143,948 ratings — published 1871
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.17 — 367,688 ratings — published 1869
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.88 — 71,476 ratings — published 1887
Black Beauty (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.00 — 299,328 ratings — published 1877
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.86 — 381,444 ratings — published 1814
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.78 — 228,440 ratings — published 1611
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.02 — 220,016 ratings — published 1831
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,994 ratings — published 1615
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.89 — 438,549 ratings — published 1603
The Complete Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,653 ratings — published 1888
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.71 — 220,343 ratings — published 1599
The Prince and the Pauper (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.87 — 125,793 ratings — published 1881
The Complete Works (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 47 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.48 — 57,736 ratings — published 1623
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.78 — 108,384 ratings — published 1889
Roughing It (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,317 ratings — published 1872
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.71 — 36,854 ratings — published 1623
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.91 — 238,449 ratings — published 1605
Twenty Years After (Musketeers Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 39 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,924 ratings — published 1845
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,662 ratings — published 1596
Life on the Mississippi (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.87 — 15,564 ratings — published 1883
The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,941 ratings — published 1869
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.96 — 195,357 ratings — published 1623
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.10 — 937,409 ratings — published 1878
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,479,723 ratings — published 1997
The Black Tulip (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.86 — 23,809 ratings — published 1850
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.06 — 611,667 ratings — published 1871
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.06 — 259,369 ratings — published 1598
Love and Freindship (and Other Early Works)
by (shelved 31 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.52 — 9,817 ratings — published 1787
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.73 — 181,098 ratings — published 1593
Lady Susan (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.66 — 53,573 ratings — published 1871
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as lazy)
avg rating 4.25 — 112,859 ratings — published 1609
The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as lazy)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,049 ratings — published 1829
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