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Masterpiece Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,542,027 ratings — published 1948
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,916 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,422 ratings — published 1890
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,618,091 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,749 ratings — published 1960
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.66 — 684,446 ratings — published 2010
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,511,367 ratings — published 1943
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,038,031 ratings — published 2011
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,279 ratings — published 1967
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.76 — 498,924 ratings — published 2014
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,645,573 ratings — published 1965
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,516,228 ratings — published 1997
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,186 ratings — published 1954
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,179,399 ratings — published 2017
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,495,576 ratings — published 1937
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,096 ratings — published 1813
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.28 — 427,879 ratings — published 1967
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,457,731 ratings — published 1915
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,866 ratings — published 1925
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,168,268 ratings — published 2015
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,092,113 ratings — published 2007
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,052,057 ratings — published 1992
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,674 ratings — published 2003
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 393,345 ratings — published 1880
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,375 ratings — published 1955
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,235,240 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,141,046 ratings — published 2007
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,036,690 ratings — published 1844
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,895,836 ratings — published 1999
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,053,704 ratings — published 1955
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,647,920 ratings — published 2023
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,809 ratings — published 2015
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,265,144 ratings — published 2016
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,372 ratings — published 2005
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,001,716 ratings — published 2006
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,756 ratings — published 1818
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,828,109 ratings — published 2003
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,140,012 ratings — published 1954
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,828 ratings — published 1951
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,894 ratings — published 1878
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.57 — 779,117 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,539,979 ratings — published 1998
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,431,048 ratings — published 1942
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,062,470 ratings — published 1601
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,760 ratings — published 1847
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,765,288 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,686,724 ratings — published 2005
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 597,475 ratings — published 1987
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.10 — 550,138 ratings — published 1984
The Sword of Kaigen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.44 — 96,803 ratings — published 2019
“One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
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