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Pretentious Books
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The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.16 — 986,833 ratings — published 1992
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,827,551 ratings — published 1890
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,642,564 ratings — published 2012
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,353,782 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,843,208 ratings — published 1951
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.10 — 392,925 ratings — published 2017
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,812,087 ratings — published 1925
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,186,321 ratings — published 1963
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,712,571 ratings — published 1813
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,378,383 ratings — published 1915
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,333,609 ratings — published 1949
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.85 — 321,027 ratings — published 2019
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,288,475 ratings — published 1847
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,172,569 ratings — published -700
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,050,079 ratings — published 1866
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.87 — 931,753 ratings — published 1955
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.61 — 443,538 ratings — published 1957
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,494,100 ratings — published 1988
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.77 — 139,599 ratings — published 1922
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.15 — 434,733 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.55 — 269,900 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.47 — 307,222 ratings — published 2019
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,025,073 ratings — published 2013
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,771,208 ratings — published 1953
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,820 ratings — published 1938
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,810,465 ratings — published 1818
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,792,301 ratings — published 1590
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,045,196 ratings — published 1932
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,068 ratings — published 1962
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.78 — 404,410 ratings — published 1993
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.09 — 195,750 ratings — published 2000
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,730,753 ratings — published 2005
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,004,544 ratings — published 1623
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,368,955 ratings — published 1985
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,304,633 ratings — published 2022
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.28 — 410,486 ratings — published 1967
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,994,035 ratings — published 1847
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.00 — 390,632 ratings — published 2019
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.90 — 88,379 ratings — published 1970
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,739,803 ratings — published 2001
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.28 — 893,517 ratings — published 2015
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,443,405 ratings — published 1945
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.94 — 385,342 ratings — published 1925
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.18 — 635,696 ratings — published 1996
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,006,487 ratings — published 1846
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.39 — 157,048 ratings — published 2019
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,597,486 ratings — published 1965
Alone With You in the Ether (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.78 — 105,749 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 3.60 — 544,381 ratings — published 2018
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pretentious)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,033,324 ratings — published 1601
“The audience was highly pretentious and somewhat vain at gazing deeply into what was fundamentally shallow; so in this vein with thoughts flowing, and past that vane with minds blowing, it completely missed the point.”
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“When you are full of yourself, you are empty.”
― Yet Another New Land
― Yet Another New Land
