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Modern Classic Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,790,974 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,355,269 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,461,038 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,851,368 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,828,137 ratings — published 1925
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,161,698 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,378,210 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,782,177 ratings — published 1953
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,192,578 ratings — published 1963
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 995,843 ratings — published 1992
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,795,863 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,469,326 ratings — published 1969
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 107 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 934,419 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,050,729 ratings — published 1932
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 762,860 ratings — published 1962
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,089,855 ratings — published 1967
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 89 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,842,776 ratings — published 2005
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 774,970 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 881,175 ratings — published 1961
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,362,503 ratings — published 1942
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 708,119 ratings — published 1938
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,507,063 ratings — published 1988
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 746,129 ratings — published 1982
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,407,081 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 484,671 ratings — published 1987
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,247,970 ratings — published 1997
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,292,108 ratings — published 1952
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 353,223 ratings — published 1989
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 444,430 ratings — published 1957
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.02 — 984,453 ratings — published 1939
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,451,802 ratings — published 2003
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.85 — 249,867 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.43 — 622,690 ratings — published 1952
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,741,657 ratings — published 2001
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.74 — 408,517 ratings — published 1958
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 125,561 ratings — published 1945
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,386,934 ratings — published 1915
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 542,407 ratings — published 1985
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 241,553 ratings — published 1956
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 287,704 ratings — published 1962
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,021,448 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,137,170 ratings — published 1947
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 543,675 ratings — published 1985
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.78 — 350,801 ratings — published 1925
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,105,424 ratings — published 1954
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 412,427 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,426,393 ratings — published 1998
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 384,871 ratings — published 1959
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 — 1,995,671 ratings — published 1979
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 536,101 ratings — published 1984
“-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
“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
