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Modern Classic Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,951,006 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,547,330 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,622,435 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,924,730 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,978,939 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,462,472 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,230,268 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,879,066 ratings — published 1953
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,053,722 ratings — published 1992
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,246,526 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,866,660 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,494,757 ratings — published 1969
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 107 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 955,013 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,097,950 ratings — published 1932
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 776,378 ratings — published 1962
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,907,187 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,117,009 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 784,506 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,505 ratings — published 1961
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 732,584 ratings — published 1938
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,433,072 ratings — published 1942
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,620,632 ratings — published 1988
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,498,761 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,355 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,610 ratings — published 1987
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,522,881 ratings — published 1997
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,328,999 ratings — published 1952
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,524,657 ratings — published 2003
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 366,422 ratings — published 1989
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,532 ratings — published 1957
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,002,652 ratings — published 1939
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.85 — 253,100 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.44 — 654,916 ratings — published 1952
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,762,621 ratings — published 2001
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 264,060 ratings — published 1956
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 416,484 ratings — published 1958
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,679 ratings — published 1962
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,737 ratings — published 1945
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,180,607 ratings — published 1954
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 550,863 ratings — published 1985
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,032,085 ratings — published 1979
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 562,591 ratings — published 1985
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,834,056 ratings — published 1993
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.77 — 361,415 ratings — published 1925
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,459,729 ratings — published 1915
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 508,098 ratings — published 1972
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,229,559 ratings — published 1947
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 402,008 ratings — published 1959
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,050,769 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,542,914 ratings — published 1998
“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
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"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
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