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Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,691,584 ratings — published 1965
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.27 — 993,414 ratings — published 2015
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,969,851 ratings — published 1813
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.13 — 530,381 ratings — published 2022
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,988 ratings — published 2011
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as on-pause)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,269,979 ratings — published 1847
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,136,057 ratings — published 2011
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.33 — 304,230 ratings — published 2014
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,606,675 ratings — published 2020
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,104,362 ratings — published 1992
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,799,208 ratings — published 1996
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,836,844 ratings — published 2023
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,398,416 ratings — published 2018
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,282 ratings — published 1890
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,222,151 ratings — published 1954
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.16 — 296,440 ratings — published 2019
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,744 ratings — published 1949
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,698 ratings — published 1866
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.11 — 960,288 ratings — published 1878
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,060,064 ratings — published 2006
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,526,568 ratings — published 1868
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,435,024 ratings — published 2018
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,512,896 ratings — published 2015
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,396,270 ratings — published 1847
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.17 — 610,910 ratings — published 2011
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,070,169 ratings — published 1846
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
by (shelved 57 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,886,049 ratings — published 2025
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,201,993 ratings — published 2015
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,015,260 ratings — published 1815
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,310,264 ratings — published 1986
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,179,914 ratings — published 1991
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,878,866 ratings — published 2023
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,958 ratings — published 1967
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,896,776 ratings — published 2017
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,528,327 ratings — published 1897
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.09 — 210,681 ratings — published 2000
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.00 — 418,291 ratings — published 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,286 ratings — published 1985
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 48 times as on-pause)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,280,137 ratings — published 2020
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,053,529 ratings — published 2014
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,446,201 ratings — published 2022
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.40 — 409,144 ratings — published 1879
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,234,196 ratings — published 2018
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.30 — 335,867 ratings — published 2025
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as on-pause)
avg rating 3.79 — 395,679 ratings — published 2024
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,422,763 ratings — published 2016
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as on-pause)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,075,027 ratings — published 2013
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,594,538 ratings — published 1937
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,782,114 ratings — published 2021
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as on-pause)
avg rating 4.15 — 537,976 ratings — published 2018