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1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,749,470 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,796,601 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,147,769 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,006,963 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,153,775 ratings — published 1866
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,549,389 ratings — published 1915
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,789,498 ratings — published 1997
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,519,596 ratings — published 1942
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 5,000,288 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,111,946 ratings — published 1960
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,310,331 ratings — published 1954
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,996,497 ratings — published 1890
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,132,174 ratings — published 1925
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,622,768 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,150,191 ratings — published 1932
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,600,501 ratings — published 1943
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,744,846 ratings — published 1988
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,554,482 ratings — published 1985
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 574,725 ratings — published 1899
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 770,181 ratings — published 1987
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,983,148 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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avg rating 4.43 — 4,662,060 ratings — published 1998
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 406,528 ratings — published 1980
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,993,012 ratings — published 2018
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,288,044 ratings — published 1847
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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avg rating 4.58 — 5,030,374 ratings — published 1999
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,997,344 ratings — published 1818
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,372,753 ratings — published 1952
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 977,076 ratings — published 1955
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,080,275 ratings — published 1846
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 575,290 ratings — published 2002
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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avg rating 4.57 — 4,339,063 ratings — published 2000
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 258,402 ratings — published 1864
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.19 — 362,911 ratings — published 1995
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,605,431 ratings — published 2003
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 914,358 ratings — published 1922
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,525,613 ratings — published 1969
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,119,297 ratings — published 1992
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,073,801 ratings — published 1979
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 163,133 ratings — published 1774
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 314,926 ratings — published 1605
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 511,862 ratings — published 2011
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 448,499 ratings — published 1925
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,262,189 ratings — published 2008
Dune (Dune, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,704,837 ratings — published 1965
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,581,422 ratings — published 2003
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,457,553 ratings — published 2000
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 791,469 ratings — published 1962
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 966,163 ratings — published 1878
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 567,584 ratings — published 1984
“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
― Lord of Light
― Lord of Light
