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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 914 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,382,078 ratings — published 1949
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 875 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,812,911 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 818 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,483,522 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 793 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,861,893 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 777 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,848,732 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 680 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,389,641 ratings — published 1985
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 669 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,200,292 ratings — published 1963
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 644 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,796,090 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 606 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,171,065 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 551 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 937,397 ratings — published 1955
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 545 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,805,605 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 507 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,057,710 ratings — published 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,473,224 ratings — published 1969
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 466 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 764,710 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,372,963 ratings — published 1942
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 440 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,093,788 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 420 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 882,823 ratings — published 1961
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,005,733 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 776,525 ratings — published 1962
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 345 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,297,583 ratings — published 1952
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 329 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 712,057 ratings — published 1938
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 987,175 ratings — published 1939
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 747,933 ratings — published 1982
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 312 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,851,611 ratings — published 2005
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 445,493 ratings — published 1957
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.44 — 627,102 ratings — published 1952
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 299 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 352,853 ratings — published 1925
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,522,475 ratings — published 1988
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 285 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 486,558 ratings — published 1987
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,461,878 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,419,695 ratings — published 1937
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 244,741 ratings — published 1956
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,397,371 ratings — published 1915
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 723,456 ratings — published 1966
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 290,458 ratings — published 1962
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 212,800 ratings — published 1927
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 250,434 ratings — published 1958
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 543,591 ratings — published 1985
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 355,339 ratings — published 1989
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,149,891 ratings — published 1947
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 414,818 ratings — published 1967
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 219 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,001,220 ratings — published 1979
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 218 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.74 — 409,792 ratings — published 1958
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 388,283 ratings — published 1959
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,579,418 ratings — published 1967
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 206 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,116,934 ratings — published 1954
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 538,361 ratings — published 1984
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 106,039 ratings — published 1966
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,287,564 ratings — published 1997
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 389,663 ratings — published 1925
“İşte bütün bunlar K.’ya kendisiyle bütün bağların koparıldığı, şimdi doğal olarak her zamankinden daha özgür olduğu ve ona başka zaman yasak olan bu yerde istediği kadar bekleyebileceği hissini verdi; sanki özgürlüğünü kimsenin yapamayacağı bir mücadeleyle elde etmişti ve kimse ona dokunamazdı, onu kovamazdı, hatta onunla konuşamazdı bile; ama bu inanç öylesine güçlüydü ki, sanki aynı zamanda bu özgürlükten, bu bekleyişten, bu dokunulmazlıktan daha anlamsız ve çaresiz bir şey yoktu.”
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“I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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