593 books
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292 voters
Literary Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as literary)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,741 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 550 times as literary)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,598 ratings — published 1960
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as literary)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,052,016 ratings — published 1992
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 449 times as literary)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,459,956 ratings — published 1985
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as literary)
avg rating 3.85 — 869,017 ratings — published 2005
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 436 times as literary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,541,830 ratings — published 1948
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 418 times as literary)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,900,438 ratings — published 2018
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 416 times as literary)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,766 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as literary)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,617,913 ratings — published 1945
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 414 times as literary)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,791 ratings — published 2013
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as literary)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,859,956 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 399 times as literary)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,244,848 ratings — published 1963
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as literary)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,066,941 ratings — published 2023
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as literary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,864,596 ratings — published 1937
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as literary)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,245 ratings — published 1967
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as literary)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,298 ratings — published 1954
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as literary)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,385,955 ratings — published 2022
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as literary)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,049,830 ratings — published 2006
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as literary)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,000,408 ratings — published 2014
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 336 times as literary)
avg rating 4.00 — 417,052 ratings — published 2019
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as literary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,430,972 ratings — published 1942
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as literary)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,746 ratings — published 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as literary)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,361 ratings — published 1890
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as literary)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,706 ratings — published 1847
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as literary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,268 ratings — published 1847
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as literary)
avg rating 3.60 — 577,299 ratings — published 2018
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as literary)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,762,015 ratings — published 2001
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 307 times as literary)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,349 ratings — published 1955
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as literary)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,199 ratings — published 1987
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 303 times as literary)
avg rating 4.07 — 622,581 ratings — published 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as literary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,978 ratings — published 1969
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as literary)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,605 ratings — published 2003
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as literary)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,869 ratings — published 1866
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 288 times as literary)
avg rating 4.14 — 365,947 ratings — published 1989
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as literary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,674 ratings — published 1818
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as literary)
avg rating 4.12 — 864,215 ratings — published 2020
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as literary)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,617,476 ratings — published 1988
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as literary)
avg rating 3.95 — 567,196 ratings — published 2001
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as literary)
avg rating 4.04 — 665,882 ratings — published 2002
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as literary)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,327,971 ratings — published 1952
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as literary)
avg rating 4.21 — 494,947 ratings — published 2020
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as literary)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,323,686 ratings — published 2017
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as literary)
avg rating 3.67 — 382,565 ratings — published 2016
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as literary)
avg rating 3.65 — 400,749 ratings — published 2007
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as literary)
avg rating 4.08 — 463,719 ratings — published 2021
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as literary)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,876,366 ratings — published 1953
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as literary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,457,647 ratings — published 1915
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as literary)
avg rating 3.99 — 739,795 ratings — published 1987
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as literary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,002,110 ratings — published 1939
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as literary)
avg rating 4.46 — 822,369 ratings — published 2022
“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was precious. And could be taken away in an instant.”
― Losing My Breath
― Losing My Breath
“Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.”
― The Kyoto Man
― The Kyoto Man












