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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,517 ratings — published 1979
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 214,422 ratings — published 2000
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,531,628 ratings — published 1969
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,724 ratings — published 1962
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 139,403 ratings — published 2001
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 964,984 ratings — published 1973
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 53 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,519 ratings — published 1987
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 286,803 ratings — published 1973
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 276,126 ratings — published 2004
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 47 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 121,852 ratings — published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 408,208 ratings — published 1980
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,662 ratings — published 1605
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,669 ratings — published 1969
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 292,935 ratings — published 1991
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 30,102 ratings — published 2013
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 579,850 ratings — published 2001
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 228,102 ratings — published 1979
At Swim-Two-Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,731 ratings — published 1939
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 167,648 ratings — published 2000
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 56,894 ratings — published 2002
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 448,218 ratings — published 2003
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 86,546 ratings — published 1990
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 84,155 ratings — published 1944
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,305 ratings — published 1996
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,088 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,008 ratings — published 1972
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,571,618 ratings — published 1985
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,665 ratings — published 1962
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,437 ratings — published 1967
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,411 ratings — published 2007
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,388 ratings — published 1965
Lost in the Funhouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,897 ratings — published 1968
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 981,945 ratings — published 1955
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,423 ratings — published 2004
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 27,940 ratings — published 2007
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,444 ratings — published 1767
Houdini Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,453 ratings — published 2011
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,719 ratings — published 1988
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 755,658 ratings — published 2001
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 357,028 ratings — published 1990
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,178,834 ratings — published 2023
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,790,495 ratings — published 2001
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 263,534 ratings — published 2004
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 140,636 ratings — published 2013
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,081,849 ratings — published 1979
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 473,405 ratings — published 1817
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 452,972 ratings — published 1967
Chloe and the Lion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,645 ratings — published 2012
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,003,329 ratings — published 1963
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
by (shelved 20 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,439 ratings — published 2011
“I had the strange thought that from now on Samuel would just be a character in someone else’s story. Not a writer anymore. Just material. I suppose that happens to all of us eventually. Someone else picks up the pen.”
― What You Let In
― What You Let In
“A memory is just an
imagining inclined towards the past, after all. You are bound to
relive the same mistakes because you keep imagining your own memories. But consider this: The former things shall not be
remembered; the old that’ve passed. If your future, which is in desire,
can become your past, a memory like any other, then by some mysterious miracle it will become your present too”
― Journeys Beyond Earth
imagining inclined towards the past, after all. You are bound to
relive the same mistakes because you keep imagining your own memories. But consider this: The former things shall not be
remembered; the old that’ve passed. If your future, which is in desire,
can become your past, a memory like any other, then by some mysterious miracle it will become your present too”
― Journeys Beyond Earth
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