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Modern Classics Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 910 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,332,048 ratings — published 1949
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 876 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,772,695 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 813 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,442,200 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 793 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,842,634 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 770 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,810,959 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 675 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,368,302 ratings — published 1985
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 664 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,185,889 ratings — published 1963
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 639 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,770,482 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 603 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,153,515 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 550 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 931,556 ratings — published 1955
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 548 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,787,566 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,044,785 ratings — published 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,466,062 ratings — published 1969
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 465 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 760,900 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 441 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,353,173 ratings — published 1942
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 436 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,086,372 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 418 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 879,771 ratings — published 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 773,605 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 986,138 ratings — published 1992
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 347 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,286,675 ratings — published 1952
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 334 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 712,309 ratings — published 1938
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 315 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 982,032 ratings — published 1939
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 314 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,835,563 ratings — published 2005
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 443,491 ratings — published 1957
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 744,528 ratings — published 1982
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.43 — 619,041 ratings — published 1952
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 349,044 ratings — published 1925
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,493,125 ratings — published 1988
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 286 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 483,117 ratings — published 1987
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,443,001 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,395,937 ratings — published 1937
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,377,823 ratings — published 1915
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 238,937 ratings — published 1956
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 719,145 ratings — published 1966
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 283,944 ratings — published 1962
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 211,030 ratings — published 1927
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 249,480 ratings — published 1958
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 541,225 ratings — published 1985
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 351,513 ratings — published 1989
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,126,153 ratings — published 1947
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 410,375 ratings — published 1967
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 217 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.74 — 407,434 ratings — published 1958
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 213 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,990,758 ratings — published 1979
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 378,967 ratings — published 1959
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 534,099 ratings — published 1984
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,565,305 ratings — published 1967
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 205 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,095,364 ratings — published 1954
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 105,068 ratings — published 1966
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,213,490 ratings — published 1997
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,419,426 ratings — published 1943
“In the infinitesimal glow of the stars,
the trees and flowers were strewing
their cool odos. There was no moon.”
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the trees and flowers were strewing
their cool odos. There was no moon.”
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