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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as parable)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,719,214 ratings — published 1988
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as parable)
avg rating 3.58 — 286,679 ratings — published 1947
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as parable)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,581,365 ratings — published 1943
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as parable)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,767,863 ratings — published 1945
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as parable)
avg rating 3.86 — 278,369 ratings — published 1970
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as parable)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,363,382 ratings — published 1952
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as parable)
avg rating 4.09 — 959,400 ratings — published 1843
Who Moved My Cheese? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as parable)
avg rating 3.87 — 519,886 ratings — published 1998
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as parable)
avg rating 4.09 — 908,309 ratings — published 1922
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as parable)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,259,575 ratings — published 1964
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as parable)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,055 ratings — published 2007
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as parable)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,497 ratings — published 1993
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as parable)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,527,564 ratings — published 1915
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as parable)
avg rating 4.08 — 163,992 ratings — published 1678
Theo of Golden (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.45 — 520,487 ratings — published 2023
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.83 — 691,363 ratings — published 1886
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.07 — 503,363 ratings — published 2021
The Celestine Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.74 — 125,067 ratings — published 1993
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,766 ratings — published 1886
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Audio CD)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.48 — 17,820 ratings — published 2002
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.35 — 61,803 ratings — published 1955
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,984,242 ratings — published 1818
The Velveteen Rabbit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.31 — 276,689 ratings — published 1922
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.57 — 631,681 ratings — published 1851
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.93 — 416,838 ratings — published 1925
The Greatest Salesman in the World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.21 — 69,646 ratings — published 1968
Bartleby the Scrivener (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,065 ratings — published 1853
The Richest Man in Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.23 — 251,680 ratings — published 1926
Fish: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.92 — 29,528 ratings — published 1996
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,961,619 ratings — published 1963
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,295,430 ratings — published 1954
The Prince and the Pauper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.87 — 126,943 ratings — published 1881
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.07 — 182,415 ratings — published 1883
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.28 — 720,566 ratings — published 1956
Šuns archipelagas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,788 ratings — published 2018
The Archer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.65 — 23,519 ratings — published 2003
The Ardent Swarm (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,648 ratings — published 2017
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.55 — 249,876 ratings — published 2019
The Parable of the Homemade Millionaire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.16 — 38 ratings — published
The Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.64 — 70,147 ratings — published 1987
The Parade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.64 — 9,394 ratings — published 2019
The Man Who Planted Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.18 — 22,412 ratings — published 1953
The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.26 — 610 ratings — published 2015
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,187 ratings — published 2007
The Ant and the Elephant: Leadership for the Self: A Parable and 5-Step Action Plan to Transform Workplace Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,111 ratings — published 2004
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.25 — 842,327 ratings — published 1990
Three Questions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,184 ratings — published 1885
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,820 ratings — published -560
“Unconditional Love is like an apple tree. The apple tree gives apples, not because anyone needs them or deserves them, but because that is what apple trees do.”
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“Somehow it was all tied up with a story he’d heard once, about a boy born with a golden screw where his navel should have been. For twenty years he consults doctors and specialists all over the world, trying to get rid of this screw, and having no success. Finally, in Haiti, he runs into a voodoo doctor who gives him a foul-smelling potion. He drinks it, goes to sleep and has a dream. In this dream he finds himself on a street, lit by green lamps. Following the witch-man’s instructions, he takes two rights and a left from his point of origin, finds a tree growing by the seventh street light, hung all over with colored balloons. On the fourth limb from the top there is a red balloon; he breaks it and inside is a screwdriver with a yellow plastic handle. With the screwdriver he removes the screw from his stomach, and as soon as this happens he wakes from the dream. It is morning. He looks down toward his navel, the screw is gone. That twenty years’ curse is lifted at last. Delirious with joy, he leaps up out of bed, and his ass falls off.”
― V.
― V.
