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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 897 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,334,777 ratings — published 1949
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 873 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,774,797 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 815 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,444,354 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 790 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,843,661 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 769 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,812,866 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 675 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,369,424 ratings — published 1985
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 662 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,186,674 ratings — published 1963
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 638 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,771,768 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 602 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,154,429 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 549 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 931,883 ratings — published 1955
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,788,515 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,045,508 ratings — published 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 471 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,466,409 ratings — published 1969
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 464 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,141 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 440 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,354,245 ratings — published 1942
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 436 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,086,765 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 879,936 ratings — published 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 773,763 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 987,329 ratings — published 1992
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,288,130 ratings — published 1952
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 334 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 712,873 ratings — published 1938
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 315 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 982,324 ratings — published 1939
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 312 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,836,424 ratings — published 2005
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 744,718 ratings — published 1982
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 443,576 ratings — published 1957
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.43 — 619,470 ratings — published 1952
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 349,208 ratings — published 1925
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,494,801 ratings — published 1988
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 286 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 483,279 ratings — published 1987
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,444,112 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,397,245 ratings — published 1937
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,378,841 ratings — published 1915
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 239,231 ratings — published 1956
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 719,430 ratings — published 1966
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 284,448 ratings — published 1962
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 211,128 ratings — published 1927
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 249,508 ratings — published 1958
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 541,350 ratings — published 1985
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 351,699 ratings — published 1989
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 410,580 ratings — published 1967
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,127,474 ratings — published 1947
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 217 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.74 — 407,554 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 — 1,991,334 ratings — published 1979
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 379,776 ratings — published 1959
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,566,000 ratings — published 1967
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 534,372 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 — 3,096,562 ratings — published 1954
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 105,113 ratings — published 1966
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,217,558 ratings — published 1997
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as modern-classics)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,420,576 ratings — published 1943
“I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“…some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it…”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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