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63 voters
Modern Classics Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 910 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,342,600 ratings — published 1949
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 874 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,780,733 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 816 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,450,786 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 792 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,846,476 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 772 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,818,496 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 678 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,372,913 ratings — published 1985
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 665 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,188,866 ratings — published 1963
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 640 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,775,640 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 603 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,157,233 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 550 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 932,822 ratings — published 1955
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,791,391 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,047,471 ratings — published 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 471 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,467,456 ratings — published 1969
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 466 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,790 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 441 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,357,273 ratings — published 1942
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,087,972 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 880,396 ratings — published 1961
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 990,738 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 366 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 774,233 ratings — published 1962
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 346 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,289,704 ratings — published 1952
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 327 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 706,000 ratings — published 1938
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 983,135 ratings — published 1939
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 311 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,838,790 ratings — published 2005
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 443,897 ratings — published 1957
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 745,297 ratings — published 1982
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.43 — 620,699 ratings — published 1952
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 349,731 ratings — published 1925
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 294 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,499,459 ratings — published 1988
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 287 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 483,825 ratings — published 1987
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,447,079 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,401,115 ratings — published 1937
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,381,918 ratings — published 1915
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 240,115 ratings — published 1956
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 285,960 ratings — published 1962
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 720,140 ratings — published 1966
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 211,442 ratings — published 1927
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 249,646 ratings — published 1958
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 541,759 ratings — published 1985
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 352,312 ratings — published 1989
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 411,318 ratings — published 1967
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,131,087 ratings — published 1947
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 217 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.74 — 407,918 ratings — published 1958
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 216 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,992,989 ratings — published 1979
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 382,364 ratings — published 1959
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,567,962 ratings — published 1967
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 535,033 ratings — published 1984
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 205 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,100,031 ratings — published 1954
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 105,311 ratings — published 1966
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,229,274 ratings — published 1997
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 386,254 ratings — published 1925
“…some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it…”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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