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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,327,092 ratings — published 1949
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,048,553 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,824,884 ratings — published 1890
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,768,629 ratings — published 1960
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,707,804 ratings — published 1813
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,438,229 ratings — published 1945
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,807,257 ratings — published 1925
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,918,088 ratings — published 2011
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,085,620 ratings — published 1967
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,950,278 ratings — published 2017
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,833,931 ratings — published 2005
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.39 — 377,443 ratings — published 1880
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,417,370 ratings — published 1943
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,840,622 ratings — published 1951
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,991,575 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,805,948 ratings — published 1818
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,442,794 ratings — published 2020
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.66 — 645,558 ratings — published 2010
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.16 — 983,942 ratings — published 1992
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,393,547 ratings — published 1937
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.28 — 891,609 ratings — published 2015
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.10 — 917,463 ratings — published 1878
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.21 — 836,553 ratings — published 1862
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,005,604 ratings — published 1846
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,723,745 ratings — published 2008
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,032,337 ratings — published 1601
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.76 — 469,048 ratings — published 2014
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.56 — 608,474 ratings — published 1851
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.28 — 409,939 ratings — published 1967
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.17 — 360,742 ratings — published 1869
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.43 — 618,267 ratings — published 1952
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,286,664 ratings — published 1847
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.56 — 566,959 ratings — published 2008
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,351,334 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,375,900 ratings — published 1915
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,419,650 ratings — published 1868
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,064,662 ratings — published 2007
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,125,560 ratings — published 2015
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.54 — 722,826 ratings — published 1954
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,093,186 ratings — published 1954
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.99 — 879,452 ratings — published 1961
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,745,797 ratings — published 1999
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,309,565 ratings — published 2023
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.15 — 432,232 ratings — published 2022
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.57 — 752,963 ratings — published 2016
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,595,780 ratings — published 1965
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,206,232 ratings — published 1997
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.91 — 300,888 ratings — published 1615
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.02 — 981,516 ratings — published 1939
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,020,345 ratings — published 1955
“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
“Until lately the West has regarded it as self-evident that the road to education lay through great books. No man was educated unless he was acquainted with the masterpieces of his tradition. There never was very much doubt in anybody’s mind about which the masterpieces were. They were the books that had endured and that the common voice of mankind called the finest creations, in writing, of the Western mind.”
― The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education
― The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education
