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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as must)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,629,773 ratings — published 1948
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,016,765 ratings — published 1960
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,920,402 ratings — published 1813
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,121,786 ratings — published 1866
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,693,363 ratings — published 1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,946,046 ratings — published 1890
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,959,045 ratings — published 1951
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,129,293 ratings — published 1967
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,922,026 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,041,433 ratings — published 1925
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,119,376 ratings — published 1932
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 402,320 ratings — published 1880
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,237,219 ratings — published 1847
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,935,554 ratings — published 2005
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,546,649 ratings — published 1943
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,374,348 ratings — published 1847
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,272,042 ratings — published 1963
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 964,821 ratings — published 1955
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,500,503 ratings — published 1985
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,054,656 ratings — published 1846
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,298,722 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 911,930 ratings — published 1946
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 951,764 ratings — published 1878
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,957,183 ratings — published 1818
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 372,680 ratings — published 1869
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as must)
avg rating 4.17 — 604,147 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as must)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,268,272 ratings — published 1947
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,492,139 ratings — published 1915
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,467,786 ratings — published 1942
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,081,184 ratings — published 1992
Dracula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,512,950 ratings — published 1897
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,263,820 ratings — published 1954
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,506,513 ratings — published 1868
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,507,467 ratings — published 1969
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 626,599 ratings — published 1851
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,174,136 ratings — published 1936
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,557,039 ratings — published 2003
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 675,887 ratings — published 1952
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,667,837 ratings — published 1939
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,670,930 ratings — published 1988
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 311,056 ratings — published 1605
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,049,455 ratings — published 1979
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 562,990 ratings — published 2002
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 367,324 ratings — published 180
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 854,508 ratings — published 1862
The Iliad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 522,852 ratings — published -800
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 897,714 ratings — published 1922
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 436,383 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 896,790 ratings — published 1961
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as must)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,549,708 ratings — published 1937
“We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“We must remember that the more self-centered our life is, the more prone we are to unhappiness and frustration.”
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