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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 935 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,603,396 ratings — published 1948
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 900 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,994,501 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 834 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,669,682 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 809 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,948,669 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 796 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,020,458 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 705 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,487,775 ratings — published 1985
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 691 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,263,958 ratings — published 1963
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 658 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,908,321 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 616 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,251,777 ratings — published 1954
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 565 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,887,758 ratings — published 1937
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 560 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,775 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,112,426 ratings — published 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,231 ratings — published 1969
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 472 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,128 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 460 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,456,138 ratings — published 1942
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 449 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,125,449 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 425 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,026 ratings — published 1961
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 395 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,072,417 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 368 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 787,693 ratings — published 1962
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 364 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,340,633 ratings — published 1952
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 336 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 741,162 ratings — published 1938
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 328 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,926,530 ratings — published 2005
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.45 — 668,120 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,008,828 ratings — published 1939
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,392 ratings — published 1982
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,753 ratings — published 1957
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,654,793 ratings — published 1988
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 303 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 364,875 ratings — published 1925
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,100 ratings — published 1987
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,546,419 ratings — published 2003
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 271,944 ratings — published 1956
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,533,672 ratings — published 1937
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,481,731 ratings — published 1915
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,062 ratings — published 1962
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 742,300 ratings — published 1966
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 219,691 ratings — published 1927
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 553,683 ratings — published 1985
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 232 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,170 ratings — published 1958
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,149 ratings — published 1958
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 433,811 ratings — published 1967
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,255,709 ratings — published 1947
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 371,518 ratings — published 1989
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 222 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,043,874 ratings — published 1979
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,644,069 ratings — published 1967
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 407,417 ratings — published 1959
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 555,162 ratings — published 1984
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 208 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,196,093 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,595,906 ratings — published 1997
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,536,379 ratings — published 1943
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 109,427 ratings — published 1966
“I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“In the infinitesimal glow of the stars,
the trees and flowers were strewing
their cool odos. There was no moon.”
―
the trees and flowers were strewing
their cool odos. There was no moon.”
―
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