153 books
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19 voters
Narrative Books
Showing 1-50 of 12,548
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,504,054 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,586,723 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,110,794 ratings — published 1967
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,442,976 ratings — published 1915
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,416,462 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,908,988 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,090,687 ratings — published 1866
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,469,248 ratings — published 1997
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,214,774 ratings — published 1954
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,917,878 ratings — published 1960
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,495,650 ratings — published 1943
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,832,904 ratings — published 1813
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,895,305 ratings — published 1890
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,947,094 ratings — published 1925
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,474,522 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,087,428 ratings — published 1932
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,442,283 ratings — published 1985
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,593,421 ratings — published 1988
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.43 — 560,627 ratings — published 1899
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.99 — 734,817 ratings — published 1987
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,857,906 ratings — published 1953
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 551,934 ratings — published 2002
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,107,588 ratings — published 1847
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,884,189 ratings — published 2018
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,320,805 ratings — published 1952
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.87 — 950,221 ratings — published 1955
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,518,389 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,870,413 ratings — published 1999
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,040,565 ratings — published 1992
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,508,737 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,214,158 ratings — published 2000
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,907,150 ratings — published 1818
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.08 — 882,011 ratings — published 1922
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 396,988 ratings — published 1980
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 232,991 ratings — published 1864
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,030,060 ratings — published 1844
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 547,250 ratings — published 1984
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.18 — 341,053 ratings — published 1995
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,962,648 ratings — published 2008
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.00 — 772,874 ratings — published 1962
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,167,112 ratings — published 1954
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,892,786 ratings — published 2005
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,636,762 ratings — published 1965
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,023,860 ratings — published 1979
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,406,490 ratings — published 2000
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.39 — 389,824 ratings — published 1880
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,488,854 ratings — published 1969
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.69 — 156,354 ratings — published 1774
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,043,417 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,125,861 ratings — published 2007
“I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.”
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“Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita











