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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 593 times as literary)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,097,946 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 557 times as literary)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,076,324 ratings — published 1960
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 525 times as literary)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,104,240 ratings — published 1992
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 459 times as literary)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,067 ratings — published 1985
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 457 times as literary)
avg rating 3.85 — 901,836 ratings — published 2005
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 439 times as literary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,322 ratings — published 1949
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 428 times as literary)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,971,661 ratings — published 2018
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as literary)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,987,648 ratings — published 1951
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 425 times as literary)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,969,547 ratings — published 1813
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 425 times as literary)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,762,208 ratings — published
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 419 times as literary)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,074,964 ratings — published 2013
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 408 times as literary)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,294,655 ratings — published 1963
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as literary)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,141,421 ratings — published 2023
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as literary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,926,870 ratings — published 1937
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as literary)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,446,054 ratings — published 2022
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as literary)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,887 ratings — published 1967
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as literary)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,292,991 ratings — published 1954
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as literary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,497,876 ratings — published 1942
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 345 times as literary)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,053,418 ratings — published 2014
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as literary)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,078,077 ratings — published 2006
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as literary)
avg rating 3.99 — 436,979 ratings — published 2019
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 335 times as literary)
avg rating 4.27 — 993,274 ratings — published 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as literary)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,080 ratings — published 1890
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as literary)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,269,806 ratings — published 1847
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as literary)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,396,153 ratings — published 1847
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as literary)
avg rating 3.59 — 608,763 ratings — published 2018
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as literary)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,780,928 ratings — published 2001
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as literary)
avg rating 4.06 — 641,338 ratings — published 2014
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 311 times as literary)
avg rating 3.87 — 972,057 ratings — published 1955
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as literary)
avg rating 3.99 — 509,587 ratings — published 1987
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as literary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,518,419 ratings — published 1969
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as literary)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,586,240 ratings — published 2003
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as literary)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,572 ratings — published 1866
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as literary)
avg rating 4.14 — 380,449 ratings — published 1989
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as literary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,982,152 ratings — published 1818
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as literary)
avg rating 4.12 — 879,025 ratings — published 2020
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as literary)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,715,188 ratings — published 1988
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as literary)
avg rating 3.96 — 575,492 ratings — published 2001
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as literary)
avg rating 4.20 — 551,509 ratings — published 2020
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 260 times as literary)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,361,937 ratings — published 1952
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 260 times as literary)
avg rating 3.65 — 441,378 ratings — published 2007
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as literary)
avg rating 4.07 — 501,954 ratings — published 2021
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as literary)
avg rating 4.04 — 671,101 ratings — published 2002
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as literary)
avg rating 3.66 — 402,489 ratings — published 2016
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as literary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,524,852 ratings — published 1915
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 249 times as literary)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,345,258 ratings — published 2017
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as literary)
avg rating 3.98 — 762,718 ratings — published 1987
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as literary)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,332 ratings — published 1963
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as literary)
avg rating 4.04 — 655,541 ratings — published 1995
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as literary)
avg rating 4.46 — 882,598 ratings — published 2022
“One by one, slow, quiet, with little more than a whispered end, Sofia snuffed the remaining candles. For every prayer she had that was never answered, she extinguished another light, another’s prayer, determined to take it back, to take them all back. ”
― Life Between Seconds
― Life Between Seconds
“The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
