255 books
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15 voters
Masterpiece Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,333,660 ratings — published 1949
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,050,091 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,827,574 ratings — published 1890
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,773,952 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,443,438 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,086,600 ratings — published 1967
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,921,350 ratings — published 2011
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.76 — 470,069 ratings — published 2014
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,420,072 ratings — published 1943
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.66 — 646,884 ratings — published 2010
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 30 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,597,498 ratings — published 1965
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,215,914 ratings — published 1997
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,096,084 ratings — published 1954
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,396,710 ratings — published 1937
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,957,386 ratings — published 2017
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,712,610 ratings — published 1813
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 377,939 ratings — published 1880
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.28 — 410,487 ratings — published 1967
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,812,124 ratings — published 1925
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.87 — 931,757 ratings — published 1955
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,378,402 ratings — published 1915
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,127,062 ratings — published 2015
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,836,086 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,750,634 ratings — published 1999
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,065,547 ratings — published 2007
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,320,634 ratings — published 2023
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.28 — 893,530 ratings — published 2015
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.16 — 986,865 ratings — published 1992
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,738,809 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,125,605 ratings — published 2000
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,443,672 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,055,607 ratings — published 2007
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,021,472 ratings — published 1955
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,006,492 ratings — published 1846
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,810,519 ratings — published 1818
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,843,227 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,353,801 ratings — published 1942
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,103,324 ratings — published 1954
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,288,490 ratings — published 1847
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.57 — 753,861 ratings — published 2016
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.64 — 3,069,630 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,412,661 ratings — published 1998
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.10 — 918,280 ratings — published 1878
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.17 — 361,015 ratings — published 1869
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.49 — 933,667 ratings — published 2006
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,642,603 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,606,484 ratings — published 2005
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 590,828 ratings — published 1987
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,731,762 ratings — published 2008
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.11 — 534,257 ratings — published 1984
“Technical achievement does not necessarily equate with artistic accomplishment.”
― The Art of Adaptation in Film and Video Games
― The Art of Adaptation in Film and Video Games
“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”
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