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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,597,473 ratings — published 1948
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,114,400 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,933,044 ratings — published 1890
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,664,605 ratings — published 1945
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,898,138 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,989,647 ratings — published 1960
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,071,839 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,015,940 ratings — published 1925
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,124,547 ratings — published 1967
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,235,791 ratings — published 2017
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,924,368 ratings — published 2005
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,533,972 ratings — published 1943
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,112 ratings — published 1880
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,946,343 ratings — published 1951
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,219,175 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,945,542 ratings — published 1818
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.11 — 947,514 ratings — published 1878
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.66 — 695,477 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,075,221 ratings — published 2008
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.27 — 964,365 ratings — published 2015
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.76 — 507,848 ratings — published 2014
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.21 — 852,276 ratings — published 1862
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,070,444 ratings — published 1992
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,530,024 ratings — published 1937
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,047,624 ratings — published 1846
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.56 — 619,954 ratings — published 2008
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.57 — 624,215 ratings — published 1851
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,070,510 ratings — published 1601
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,565,276 ratings — published 2020
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,099,317 ratings — published 2007
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.28 — 433,284 ratings — published 1967
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,179,643 ratings — published 2015
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.17 — 371,222 ratings — published 1869
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.45 — 666,544 ratings — published 1952
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,364,289 ratings — published 1847
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,479,420 ratings — published 1915
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,662,643 ratings — published 1965
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,453,735 ratings — published 1942
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,194,421 ratings — published 1954
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.58 — 243,495 ratings — published 2023
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.14 — 504,288 ratings — published 2022
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,544,487 ratings — published 2021
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,235,900 ratings — published 2009
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.56 — 786,410 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,933,016 ratings — published 1999
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.54 — 739,520 ratings — published 1959
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.99 — 894,634 ratings — published 1961
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,497,940 ratings — published 1868
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,728,234 ratings — published 2023
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,588,414 ratings — published 1997
“You may have seen, you must have seen, some of those awful text books written not by educators but by educationalists—by people who talk about books instead of talking within books. You may have been told by them that the chief aim of a great writer, and indeed the main clue to his greatness, is "simplicity." Traitors, not teachers. In reading exam papers written by misled students, of both sexes, about this or that author, I have often come across such phrases—probably recollections from more tenderyears of schooling—as "his style is simple" or "his style is clear and simple" or "his style is beautiful and simple" or "his style is quite beautiful and simple." But remember that "simplicity" is buncombe. No major writer is simple. The Saturday Evening Post is simple. Journalese is simple. Upton Lewis is simple. Mom is simple. Digests are simple. Damnation is simple. But Tolstoys and Melvilles are not simple.”
― Lectures on Russian Literature
― Lectures on Russian Literature
“Some people try to color inside of the lines, when they are really meant to color outside of the lines and create masterpieces. Don't try to fit in, when you are meant to stand out and be different. You are a true work of art, don't ever try to change that.”
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