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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 467 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,148,872 ratings — published 1967
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,522,687 ratings — published 1942
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 378 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.19 — 363,450 ratings — published 1995
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 364 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,374,255 ratings — published 1952
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,312,718 ratings — published 1954
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.09 — 915,315 ratings — published 1922
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,948,425 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,770 ratings — published 1987
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.85 — 912,117 ratings — published 2005
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.14 — 385,304 ratings — published 1989
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 282 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.65 — 455,406 ratings — published 2007
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.92 — 178,218 ratings — published 2009
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,590 ratings — published 1999
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.94 — 562,449 ratings — published 1985
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,026,846 ratings — published 1939
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.02 — 332,409 ratings — published 1947
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.87 — 63,262 ratings — published 1998
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,340 ratings — published 1997
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.86 — 201,462 ratings — published 1929
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.97 — 251,751 ratings — published 1981
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.84 — 228,638 ratings — published 1952
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.46 — 721,299 ratings — published 1952
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,515 ratings — published 1957
Happening (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.30 — 84,765 ratings — published 2000
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.13 — 226,432 ratings — published 1927
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 176 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,900 ratings — published 1924
The Golden Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,374 ratings — published 1962
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.55 — 44,481 ratings — published 1948
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,644 ratings — published 1959
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.03 — 68,451 ratings — published 1890
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.98 — 128,916 ratings — published 1962
The Piano Teacher (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.62 — 17,920 ratings — published 1983
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.14 — 322,666 ratings — published 1970
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.01 — 264,756 ratings — published 1931
The Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,829 ratings — published 2008
Fatelessness (Vintage International)
by (shelved 148 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,239 ratings — published 1975
Death with Interruptions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,138 ratings — published 2005
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.82 — 366,862 ratings — published 1929
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.78 — 510,916 ratings — published 1926
Death in Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.67 — 73,744 ratings — published 1911
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.99 — 327,330 ratings — published 1940
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.93 — 146,969 ratings — published 1938
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,226 ratings — published 1983
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,417 ratings — published 1901
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,441 ratings — published 2000
Independent People (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as nobel)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,160 ratings — published 1934
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.72 — 194,155 ratings — published 1930
Dear Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.74 — 41,014 ratings — published 2011
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as nobel)
avg rating 3.73 — 476,953 ratings — published 2021
“Meravigliosa fu in realtà la mia vita, pensava, meravigliose vie ha seguito. Ragazzo, non ho avuto a che fare se non con dei e sacrifici. Giovane, non ho avuto a che fare se non con ascesi, meditazione e contemplazione, sempre in cerca di Brahma, sempre intento a venerare l'eterno nello Atman. Ma quando fui giovanotto mi riunii ai penitenti, vissi nella foresta, soffersi il caldo e il gelo, appresi a sopportare la fame, appresi a far morire il mio corpo. Meravigliosa mi giunse allora la rivelazione attraverso la dottrina del grande Buddha, e sentii la conoscenza dell'unità del mondo circolare in me come il mio stesso sangue. Ma anche da Buddha e dalla grande conoscenza mi dovetti staccare. Me n'andai, e appresi da Kamala la gioia d'amore, appresi da Kamaswami il commercio, accumulai denaro, dissipai denaro, appresi ad amare il mio stomaco, a lusingare i miei sensi. Molti anni dovetti impiegare per perdere lo spirito, disapprendere il pensiero, dimenticare l'unità. Non è forse come se lentamente e per grandi traviamenti io mi fossi rifatto, d'uomo, bambino, di saggio che ero, un uomo puerile? Eppure è stata buona questa via, e l'usignolo non è ancor morto nel mio petto. Ma che via fu questa! Son dovuto passare attraverso tanta sciocchezza, tanta bruttura, tanto errore, tanto disgusto e delusione e dolore, solo per ridiventare bambino e poter ricominciare da capo. Ma è stato giusto, il mio cuore lo approva, gli occhi miei ne ridono. Ho dovuto provare la disperazione, ho dovuto abbassarmi fino al più stolto di tutti i pensieri, al pensiero del suicidio, per poter rivivere la grazia, per riapprendere l'Om, per poter di nuovo dormire tranquillo e risvegliarmi sereno. Ho dovuto essere un pazzo, per sentire di nuovo l'Atman. Ho dovuto peccare per poter rivivere. Dove può ancora condurmi il mio cammino? Stolto è questo cammino, va strisciando obliquamente, forse va in cerchio. Ma vada come vuole, io son contento di seguirlo.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha













