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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 739 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,642,023 ratings — published 1948
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 665 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,027,007 ratings — published 1960
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 485 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,939,746 ratings — published 2005
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 467 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,928,907 ratings — published 1813
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 421 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,704,240 ratings — published 1945
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 375 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,131,540 ratings — published 2008
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,124,961 ratings — published
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,051,296 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,963,946 ratings — published 1951
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 350 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,818,405 ratings — published 2012
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,928,272 ratings — published 1963
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.37 — 914,461 ratings — published 1946
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,678,498 ratings — published 1988
Taming Flame (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,728 ratings — published 2022
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,131,103 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,561,972 ratings — published 2003
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,122,461 ratings — published 1932
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,301,348 ratings — published 2011
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,378,061 ratings — published 1847
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,274,222 ratings — published 1947
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,950,976 ratings — published 1890
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,269,048 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 291 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,646,721 ratings — published 1997
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 289 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,506,366 ratings — published 1985
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,551,659 ratings — published 1943
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,243,406 ratings — published 1847
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 271 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,374,787 ratings — published 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,057,183 ratings — published 1846
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.11 — 953,111 ratings — published 1878
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.17 — 605,283 ratings — published 2011
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 254 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.95 — 44,642 ratings — published 2012
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.39 — 401,722 ratings — published 1880
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 252 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,189,122 ratings — published 2015
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 248 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.87 — 966,092 ratings — published 1955
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,275,611 ratings — published 1963
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,041,732 ratings — published 1999
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,085,112 ratings — published 1992
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,097,184 ratings — published 2011
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,176,002 ratings — published 1936
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.92 — 44,485 ratings — published 2010
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,473,231 ratings — published 1942
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,282,566 ratings — published 2017
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 229 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,509,869 ratings — published 1868
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,961,381 ratings — published 1818
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,557,121 ratings — published 1937
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.17 — 373,176 ratings — published 1869
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.99 — 897,614 ratings — published 1961
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.27 — 976,646 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,783,088 ratings — published 2007
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 212 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,051,908 ratings — published 1979
“Trust is dangerous when everyone is hiding something.”
― The Truth Between Us
― The Truth Between Us
“The fog doesn’t hide things… it chooses what you’re allowed to see.”
― The Vanishing Town
― The Vanishing Town












