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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as literary)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,890 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 550 times as literary)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,775 ratings — published 1960
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as literary)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,052,068 ratings — published 1992
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 449 times as literary)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,460,039 ratings — published 1985
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as literary)
avg rating 3.85 — 869,068 ratings — published 2005
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 436 times as literary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,542,065 ratings — published 1948
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 418 times as literary)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,900,537 ratings — published 2018
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 416 times as literary)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,834 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as literary)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,618,091 ratings — published 1945
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 414 times as literary)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,816 ratings — published 2013
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as literary)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,120 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 399 times as literary)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,244,918 ratings — published 1963
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as literary)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,067,050 ratings — published 2023
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as literary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,864,678 ratings — published 1937
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as literary)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,279 ratings — published 1967
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as literary)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,380 ratings — published 1954
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as literary)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,386,031 ratings — published 2022
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as literary)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,049,863 ratings — published 2006
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as literary)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,000,470 ratings — published 2014
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 336 times as literary)
avg rating 4.00 — 417,080 ratings — published 2019
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as literary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,431,066 ratings — published 1942
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as literary)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,818 ratings — published 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as literary)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,432 ratings — published 1890
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as literary)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,766 ratings — published 1847
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as literary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,521 ratings — published 1847
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as literary)
avg rating 3.60 — 577,334 ratings — published 2018
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as literary)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,762,041 ratings — published 2001
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 307 times as literary)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,379 ratings — published 1955
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as literary)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,213 ratings — published 1987
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 303 times as literary)
avg rating 4.07 — 622,599 ratings — published 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as literary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,494,005 ratings — published 1969
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as literary)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,681 ratings — published 2003
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as literary)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,924 ratings — published 1866
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 288 times as literary)
avg rating 4.14 — 365,966 ratings — published 1989
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as literary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,764 ratings — published 1818
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as literary)
avg rating 4.12 — 864,237 ratings — published 2020
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as literary)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,617,606 ratings — published 1988
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as literary)
avg rating 3.95 — 567,204 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 — 1,328,008 ratings — published 1952
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as literary)
avg rating 4.21 — 495,009 ratings — published 2020
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as literary)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,323,713 ratings — published 2017
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as literary)
avg rating 3.67 — 382,597 ratings — published 2016
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as literary)
avg rating 3.65 — 400,812 ratings — published 2007
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as literary)
avg rating 4.08 — 463,783 ratings — published 2021
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as literary)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,876,466 ratings — published 1953
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as literary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,457,738 ratings — published 1915
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as literary)
avg rating 3.99 — 739,818 ratings — published 1987
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as literary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,002,132 ratings — published 1939
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as literary)
avg rating 4.46 — 822,439 ratings — published 2022
“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name at the bottom of the list to add their child to the names of those who would return home, those beautiful children who would never be forgotten, as if their child’s name needed to be on the list to be remembered—to have been disappeared. ”
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“You realize assuming can often lead to getting into trouble.”
― The Last Sunset
― The Last Sunset
