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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,062,028 ratings — published 1992
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,923,054 ratings — published 1890
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,780,924 ratings — published 2012
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,443,544 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,934,099 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,254,785 ratings — published 1963
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.08 — 424,377 ratings — published 2017
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,997,688 ratings — published 1925
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.83 — 351,959 ratings — published 2019
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,881,389 ratings — published 1813
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,356,180 ratings — published 1847
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,635,972 ratings — published 1988
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,469,710 ratings — published 1915
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,573,048 ratings — published 1948
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,212,100 ratings — published -800
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.76 — 139,307 ratings — published 1922
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.61 — 452,566 ratings — published 1957
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,847,564 ratings — published 1590
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.14 — 497,557 ratings — published 2022
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,107,595 ratings — published 1866
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.87 — 958,030 ratings — published 1955
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,055,167 ratings — published 2013
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,892,738 ratings — published 1953
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,120 ratings — published 1938
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.54 — 282,302 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.45 — 344,630 ratings — published 2019
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.00 — 778,714 ratings — published 1962
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.78 — 422,787 ratings — published 1993
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.09 — 204,857 ratings — published 2000
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,762,296 ratings — published 2005
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,936,455 ratings — published 1818
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,473,960 ratings — published 1985
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,104,661 ratings — published 1932
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.72 — 189,448 ratings — published 1930
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,398,649 ratings — published 2022
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.90 — 93,980 ratings — published 1970
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,765,392 ratings — published 2001
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.27 — 957,329 ratings — published 2015
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,902 ratings — published 1996
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,034,128 ratings — published 1623
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.18 — 650,774 ratings — published 1996
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.38 — 165,299 ratings — published 2019
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.93 — 265,816 ratings — published 1948
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,654,579 ratings — published 1965
Alone With You in the Ether (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.77 — 110,391 ratings — published 2020
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,533,101 ratings — published 2020
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,204,454 ratings — published 1847
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.99 — 744,156 ratings — published 1987
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.00 — 409,413 ratings — published 2019
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.99 — 893,047 ratings — published 1961
“Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“A half-hearted forgiveness is pretentious. You cannot forgive and say that you still have not forgotten. If you have not forgotten, it means you have not forgiven.”
― Sips And Little Portions
― Sips And Little Portions
