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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,542,027 ratings — published 1948
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,916 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,422 ratings — published 1890
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,749 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,618,091 ratings — published 1945
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,096 ratings — published 1813
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,038,031 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,866 ratings — published 1925
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,279 ratings — published 1967
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,179,399 ratings — published 2017
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,372 ratings — published 2005
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.39 — 393,345 ratings — published 1880
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,511,367 ratings — published 1943
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,828 ratings — published 1951
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,521 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,756 ratings — published 1818
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,894 ratings — published 1878
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,007,308 ratings — published 2008
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,809 ratings — published 2015
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.21 — 848,435 ratings — published 1862
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.66 — 684,446 ratings — published 2010
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,052,057 ratings — published 1992
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,495,576 ratings — published 1937
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.76 — 498,924 ratings — published 2014
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,036,690 ratings — published 1844
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,404 ratings — published 1851
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,062,470 ratings — published 1601
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,541,187 ratings — published 2020
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,092,113 ratings — published 2007
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.28 — 427,879 ratings — published 1967
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.56 — 607,274 ratings — published 2014
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,819 ratings — published 1869
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,760 ratings — published 1847
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,645,573 ratings — published 1965
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,431,048 ratings — published 1942
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.44 — 653,782 ratings — published 1952
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,186 ratings — published 1954
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,168,268 ratings — published 2015
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.54 — 735,363 ratings — published 1959
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,457,731 ratings — published 1915
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.14 — 489,984 ratings — published 2022
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.57 — 779,117 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,895,836 ratings — published 1999
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,192 ratings — published 1961
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,483,106 ratings — published 1868
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.59 — 225,426 ratings — published 2023
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,516,228 ratings — published 1997
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,202,099 ratings — published 2009
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,053,704 ratings — published 1955
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpieces)
avg rating 4.08 — 420,915 ratings — published 2017
“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
“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history.”
― Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi
― Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi
