53 books
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11 voters
Narratives Books
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,386 ratings — published 1957
The Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,444 ratings — published 2009
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.30 — 586,028 ratings — published 1969
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,385,831 ratings — published 2022
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,049,795 ratings — published 2006
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,560 ratings — published 1818
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,724 ratings — published 2005
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.50 — 48,385 ratings — published 1981
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,096,584 ratings — published 1932
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,374,748 ratings — published 1956
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,536 ratings — published 1925
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,617,693 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,541,546 ratings — published 1948
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,506 ratings — published 2003
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.70 — 7,141 ratings — published 2012
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.23 — 611,416 ratings — published 2021
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,003 ratings — published 1980
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,697 ratings — published 2019
The Science of Storytelling (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,321 ratings — published 2019
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,174,853 ratings — published 1847
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.99 — 390,447 ratings — published 1937
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,653 ratings — published 1951
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.97 — 711,835 ratings — published 1989
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.34 — 24,181 ratings — published 1986
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,789 ratings — published 1866
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,200 ratings — published 1928
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.27 — 232,875 ratings — published 2003
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,876,232 ratings — published 1953
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.28 — 427,825 ratings — published 1967
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,475,074 ratings — published 2012
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.16 — 627,563 ratings — published 2012
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,606,570 ratings — published 2003
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,306,006 ratings — published 2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.70 — 251,147 ratings — published 2010
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,060,172 ratings — published 2011
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,617 ratings — published 2008
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,985 ratings — published 1971
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,548 ratings — published 1980
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,850,572 ratings — published 2006
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,698 ratings — published 2004
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,227,049 ratings — published 1947
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narratives)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,377 ratings — published 1851
Avatar Volume 8: The Last Airbender (Avatar #8)
by (shelved 2 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.52 — 266 ratings — published 2007
Avatar Volume 7: The Last Airbender (Avatar #7)
by (shelved 2 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.61 — 597 ratings — published 2007
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,376,676 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,037,734 ratings — published 2011
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.20 — 784,199 ratings — published 1962
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,056 ratings — published 1954
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,961 ratings — published 1969
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narratives)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,178,919 ratings — published 2017
“The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.”
― The Three-Cornered World
― The Three-Cornered World
“A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.”
― Radiance
― Radiance










