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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,503,993 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,586,680 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,110,782 ratings — published 1967
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,442,961 ratings — published 1915
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,416,449 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,908,973 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,090,674 ratings — published 1866
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,469,185 ratings — published 1997
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,214,750 ratings — published 1954
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 6,917,833 ratings — published 1960
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,495,628 ratings — published 1943
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,832,849 ratings — published 1813
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,895,279 ratings — published 1890
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,947,054 ratings — published 1925
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,474,492 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,087,414 ratings — published 1932
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,442,254 ratings — published 1985
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,593,390 ratings — published 1988
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.43 — 560,623 ratings — published 1899
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.99 — 734,806 ratings — published 1987
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,857,880 ratings — published 1953
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 551,933 ratings — published 2002
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,107,455 ratings — published 1847
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,884,160 ratings — published 2018
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,320,798 ratings — published 1952
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.87 — 950,216 ratings — published 1955
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,518,355 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,870,375 ratings — published 1999
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,040,542 ratings — published 1992
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,508,723 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,214,122 ratings — published 2000
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,907,132 ratings — published 1818
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.08 — 882,008 ratings — published 1922
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 396,987 ratings — published 1980
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 232,989 ratings — published 1864
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,030,047 ratings — published 1844
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 547,249 ratings — published 1984
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.18 — 341,055 ratings — published 1995
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,962,569 ratings — published 2008
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.00 — 772,872 ratings — published 1962
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,167,085 ratings — published 1954
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,892,757 ratings — published 2005
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,636,752 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 — 2,023,851 ratings — published 1979
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,406,478 ratings — published 2000
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.39 — 389,822 ratings — published 1880
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,488,847 ratings — published 1969
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 156,352 ratings — published 1774
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,043,405 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,125,831 ratings — published 2007
“I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.”
― Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein
― Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein
“It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.”
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