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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pensive)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,562,854 ratings — published 1988
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pensive)
avg rating 4.21 — 465,913 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pensive)
avg rating 3.67 — 372,495 ratings — published 2016
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pensive)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,497,595 ratings — published 2020
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pensive)
avg rating 3.87 — 202,767 ratings — published 2013
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pensive)
avg rating 4.16 — 285,575 ratings — published 1950
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pensive)
avg rating 4.15 — 467,480 ratings — published 2022
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pensive)
avg rating 4.01 — 657,317 ratings — published 2013
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 543,291 ratings — published 1984
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 267,532 ratings — published 2004
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 104,163 ratings — published 2012
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,258,768 ratings — published 2012
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 565,993 ratings — published 2008
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 547,698 ratings — published 2002
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,874,413 ratings — published 1890
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,857,061 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as pensive)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,875,248 ratings — published 2005
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
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avg rating 3.94 — 141,315 ratings — published 1982
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,481,783 ratings — published 1969
Eleven Minutes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 190,866 ratings — published 2003
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pensive)
avg rating 3.97 — 282,034 ratings — published 1991
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as pensive)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,804,364 ratings — published 1993
Stone Yard Devotional (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 3.74 — 24,044 ratings — published 2023
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 4.16 — 159,686 ratings — published 2024
Maeve's Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,940 ratings — published 2013
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 3.94 — 252,146 ratings — published 1948
Yellowface (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,023,975 ratings — published 2023
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,212 ratings — published 2004
On Chesil Beach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 102,263 ratings — published 2007
Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,486 ratings — published 2022
I Make Envy on Your Disco (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,162 ratings — published 2024
All Things Under the Moon (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 213 ratings — published
Like the Flowing River (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,976 ratings — published 2000
Cat’s Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,660 ratings — published 1988
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,675 ratings — published 1998
Myron Levoy: Der gelbe Vogel. EinFach Deutsch Unterrichtsmodelle: Klassen 8 - 10 (Pamphlet)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 3.58 — 130 ratings — published 2004
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.56 — 39,008 ratings — published 2017
In the Time of Our History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 6,328 ratings — published 2023
A Book Is Not A Castle (ebook)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2015
Flowers Don't Cry (ebook)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2015
The Book of Hope (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2002
The Emperor of Gladness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 55,512 ratings — published 2025
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 412,307 ratings — published 1993
A Brief History of the Great Moghuls (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 410 ratings — published 1971
The Marrow Thieves (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 43,929 ratings — published 2017
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 875,727 ratings — published 1922
Sorrow and Bliss (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 122,790 ratings — published 2020
Go as a River (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 186,826 ratings — published 2023
Wish You Were Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pensive)
avg rating 3.91 — 289,634 ratings — published 2021
“...that this monster, who is only one in form, has a heart so humane that he should not be persecuted for a deformity which he refrains from rendering more hideous by his actions...”
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“What pensive people define as ‘lost’ is what bolder people define as ‘adventure’. The former remains huddled in their constricted boxes, while the latter tread the crest of horizons.”
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