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Modern Classic Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,741,381 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,293,013 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,410,586 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,827,136 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,781,629 ratings — published 1925
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,140,163 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,751,487 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,351,954 ratings — published 1985
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,174,553 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,774,054 ratings — published 1937
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 970,856 ratings — published 1992
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,460,436 ratings — published 1969
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 105 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 926,713 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,034,572 ratings — published 1932
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 758,002 ratings — published 1962
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,080,514 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 771,404 ratings — published 1962
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 88 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,823,026 ratings — published 2005
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 877,306 ratings — published 1961
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,339,199 ratings — published 1942
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 705,581 ratings — published 1938
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,469,656 ratings — published 1988
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 741,777 ratings — published 1982
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,376,844 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 480,766 ratings — published 1987
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,156,705 ratings — published 1997
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,279,231 ratings — published 1952
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 348,694 ratings — published 1989
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.83 — 288,390 ratings — published 1958
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 441,702 ratings — published 1957
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,428,045 ratings — published 2003
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.02 — 977,942 ratings — published 1939
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.43 — 612,631 ratings — published 1952
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,735,576 ratings — published 2001
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.74 — 405,742 ratings — published 1958
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 539,242 ratings — published 1985
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 124,642 ratings — published 1945
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,363,064 ratings — published 1915
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 234,396 ratings — published 1956
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 278,442 ratings — published 1962
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,011,361 ratings — published 2006
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.78 — 346,641 ratings — published 1923
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 406,892 ratings — published 1967
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,106,683 ratings — published 1947
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,387,699 ratings — published 2002
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,982,829 ratings — published 1979
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 530,728 ratings — published 1984
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 501,137 ratings — published 1972
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,078,358 ratings — published 1954
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 715,604 ratings — published 1966
“You’re inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow time down?” Dunbar was almost angry when he finished.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being...”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
