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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,407,036 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,505,205 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,097,430 ratings — published 1967
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,407,635 ratings — published 1915
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,383,303 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,871,537 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,833,157 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,324,229 ratings — published 1997
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,180,053 ratings — published 1954
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,069,155 ratings — published 1866
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,431,046 ratings — published 1937
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,452,605 ratings — published 1943
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,064,086 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 4,762,379 ratings — published 1813
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,858,324 ratings — published 1890
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,868,466 ratings — published 1925
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,537,279 ratings — published 1988
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,399,765 ratings — published 1985
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.99 — 723,316 ratings — published 1987
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,809,319 ratings — published 1953
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 544,791 ratings — published 2002
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.43 — 556,203 ratings — published 1899
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,843,007 ratings — published 2018
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.87 — 940,237 ratings — published 1955
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,458,565 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,802,924 ratings — published 1999
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,014,153 ratings — published 1992
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.08 — 871,152 ratings — published 1922
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 225,049 ratings — published 1864
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,302,768 ratings — published 1952
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,165,776 ratings — published 2000
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,471,114 ratings — published 2003
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 393,977 ratings — published 1980
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,026,367 ratings — published 1847
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,825,466 ratings — published 2008
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 540,431 ratings — published 1984
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,865,340 ratings — published 1818
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.18 — 335,612 ratings — published 1995
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,127,754 ratings — published 1954
Dune (Dune #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,615,597 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 — 2,006,150 ratings — published 1979
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,513,236 ratings — published 2003
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,383,744 ratings — published 2000
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 383,162 ratings — published 1880
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,476,614 ratings — published 1969
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 154,106 ratings — published 1774
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,016,954 ratings — published 1844
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,029,523 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,087,651 ratings — published 2007
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,814,757 ratings — published 1937
“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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“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.”
― Myself with Others: Selected Essays
― Myself with Others: Selected Essays
