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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,864,398 ratings — published 1997
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 69 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,590,220 ratings — published 2003
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,313,615 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,689,103 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 60 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,069,343 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 58 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,370,491 ratings — published 2000
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,351,936 ratings — published 2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 55 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,792,458 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 54 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,250,014 ratings — published 2007
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 52 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,890,558 ratings — published 2010
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 51 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,943,069 ratings — published 2003
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,143,840 ratings — published 1960
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,809,361 ratings — published 2018
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,648,970 ratings — published 1937
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,162,442 ratings — published 1925
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,466,556 ratings — published 2000
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,792,797 ratings — published 1949
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,535,720 ratings — published 2005
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,005,676 ratings — published 1963
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,622,273 ratings — published 2003
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,770,481 ratings — published 1988
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,082,731 ratings — published 1979
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,573,762 ratings — published 1985
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,023,697 ratings — published 1951
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,988,259 ratings — published 2005
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,148,589 ratings — published 1997
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,825,808 ratings — published 1996
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,105,284 ratings — published 2009
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,729,126 ratings — published 2006
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,506,839 ratings — published 1985
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,498,921 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,833,670 ratings — published 1945
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,245,778 ratings — published 1954
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,387,799 ratings — published 2011
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,791,006 ratings — published 2001
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,077,567 ratings — published 2014
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,898,008 ratings — published 2012
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,028,939 ratings — published 1813
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,161,570 ratings — published 1932
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.00 — 785,312 ratings — published 2003
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,717,453 ratings — published 1965
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,872,773 ratings — published 2006
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,531,748 ratings — published 2005
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,491,529 ratings — published 2002
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,415,441 ratings — published 2005
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,406,002 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,827,578 ratings — published 2007
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.31 — 711,733 ratings — published 2016
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as pleasure)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,399,696 ratings — published 2015
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 27 times as pleasure)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,008,332 ratings — published 2006
“His eyes are open, watching my flushed face, my ragged breathing. I try to stop myself from making embarrassing noises. It’s more intimate than the way he’s touching me, to be looked at like that. I hate that he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. I hate being vulnerable. I hate that I throw my head back, baring my throat. I hate the way I cling to him, the nails of one hand digging into his back, my thoughts splintering, and the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I’ve ever liked anyone and that of all the things he’s ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.”
― The Wicked King
― The Wicked King
“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
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