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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,615,305 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,680,167 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,127,214 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,953,265 ratings — published 1951
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,486,298 ratings — published 1915
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,117,998 ratings — published 1866
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,611,144 ratings — published 1997
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,461,165 ratings — published 1942
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,257,266 ratings — published 1954
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,910,256 ratings — published 1813
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,540,897 ratings — published 1937
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,004,378 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,029,638 ratings — published 1925
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,541,049 ratings — published 1943
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,940,226 ratings — published 1890
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,661,931 ratings — published 1988
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,115,576 ratings — published 1932
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,493,403 ratings — published 1985
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.99 — 750,359 ratings — published 1987
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,914,389 ratings — published 1953
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 567,212 ratings — published 1899
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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avg rating 4.43 — 4,581,019 ratings — published 1998
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,951,934 ratings — published 1818
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 401,266 ratings — published 1980
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,932,166 ratings — published 2018
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.87 — 963,154 ratings — published 1955
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 561,503 ratings — published 2002
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,229,363 ratings — published 1847
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,944,580 ratings — published 1999
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.16 — 243,978 ratings — published 1864
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,343,114 ratings — published 1952
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,551,057 ratings — published 2003
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,051,517 ratings — published 1846
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,273,741 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,076,273 ratings — published 1992
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.18 — 348,417 ratings — published 1995
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.09 — 895,886 ratings — published 1922
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,505,116 ratings — published 1969
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.10 — 556,148 ratings — published 1984
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,097,233 ratings — published 2008
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,046,341 ratings — published 1979
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,429,319 ratings — published 2000
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 159,500 ratings — published 1774
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 310,484 ratings — published 1605
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 782,060 ratings — published 1962
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 949,661 ratings — published 1878
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,892,377 ratings — published 1937
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,199,300 ratings — published 1954
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,930,393 ratings — published 2005
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,667,956 ratings — published 1965
“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
“Willful blindness” may hinder us from discerning the critical fault lines in the narrative of our life. Our memory may obliterate then the crucial elements that are vital to really come to know ourselves. ("Non mais, t'as vu l'heure !")”
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