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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,683,565 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,746,557 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,137,241 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,980,718 ratings — published 1951
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,517,339 ratings — published 1915
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,705,018 ratings — published 1997
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,135,967 ratings — published 1866
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,957,851 ratings — published 1813
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,491,702 ratings — published 1942
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,286,083 ratings — published 1954
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,968,831 ratings — published 1890
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,084,450 ratings — published 1925
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,583,392 ratings — published 1937
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,062,315 ratings — published 1960
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,570,214 ratings — published 1943
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,133,150 ratings — published 1932
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,704,065 ratings — published 1988
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,526,019 ratings — published 1985
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.98 — 760,074 ratings — published 1987
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,949,681 ratings — published 1963
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.43 — 571,158 ratings — published 1899
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,627,490 ratings — published 1998
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 403,950 ratings — published 1980
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,963,447 ratings — published 2018
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,262,501 ratings — published 1847
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,990,080 ratings — published 1999
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,976,312 ratings — published 1818
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.87 — 970,404 ratings — published 1955
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,066,346 ratings — published 1846
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 568,762 ratings — published 2002
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,357,949 ratings — published 1952
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,308,220 ratings — published 2000
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.18 — 353,105 ratings — published 1995
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,579,080 ratings — published 2003
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.09 — 905,067 ratings — published 1922
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,515,942 ratings — published 1969
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.16 — 251,220 ratings — published 1864
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,098,745 ratings — published 1992
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,060,903 ratings — published 1979
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.05 — 500,143 ratings — published 2011
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.28 — 441,596 ratings — published 1967
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.10 — 561,741 ratings — published 1984
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,185,251 ratings — published 2008
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,569,050 ratings — published 2003
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,443,847 ratings — published 2000
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.70 — 161,331 ratings — published 1774
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 312,458 ratings — published 1605
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.00 — 787,161 ratings — published 1962
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 958,151 ratings — published 1878
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,200,936 ratings — published 2007
“A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”
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“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other possible directions. The approximation which follows is that, from that point, the sequences of images and even each image, a single shot, are assimilated to propositions or rather oral utterances [...].”
― The Time-Image
― The Time-Image
