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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as prize)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,957,387 ratings — published 1960
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 164,414 ratings — published 2000
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as prize)
avg rating 4.14 — 367,143 ratings — published 1989
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 329,818 ratings — published 1997
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as prize)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,118,216 ratings — published 1967
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as prize)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,763,481 ratings — published 2001
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as prize)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,052,180 ratings — published 2006
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,568 ratings — published 1999
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 271,629 ratings — published 2008
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as prize)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,025 ratings — published 2008
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 301,082 ratings — published 1980
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prize)
avg rating 4.19 — 213,974 ratings — published 2000
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 280,142 ratings — published 2007
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as prize)
avg rating 3.91 — 235,459 ratings — published 2009
Tinkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prize)
avg rating 3.42 — 39,288 ratings — published 2009
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prize)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,265 ratings — published 1987
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prize)
avg rating 4.04 — 666,279 ratings — published 2002
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as prize)
avg rating 3.85 — 126,361 ratings — published 2004
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prize)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,931 ratings — published 1990
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,891 ratings — published 1981
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prize)
avg rating 3.46 — 56,559 ratings — published
The Sense of an Ending (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prize)
avg rating 3.74 — 194,526 ratings — published 2011
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as prize)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,948 ratings — published 1982
The Shipping News (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as prize)
avg rating 3.88 — 153,314 ratings — published 1993
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as prize)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,330,621 ratings — published 1952
American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 89,151 ratings — published 1997
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,554 ratings — published 2001
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prize)
avg rating 3.84 — 45,519 ratings — published 2003
The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 149,494 ratings — published 1998
The Gathering (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prize)
avg rating 3.15 — 26,579 ratings — published 2007
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as prize)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,003,466 ratings — published 1939
Amsterdam (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prize)
avg rating 3.47 — 61,024 ratings — published 1998
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prize)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,396 ratings — published 1971
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as prize)
avg rating 4.18 — 207,639 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prize)
avg rating 4.04 — 462,058 ratings — published 1997
The Golden Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prize)
avg rating 3.77 — 24,893 ratings — published 1962
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prize)
avg rating 3.70 — 251,437 ratings — published 2010
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 198,406 ratings — published 1920
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as prize)
avg rating 4.33 — 92,526 ratings — published 1974
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as prize)
avg rating 4.18 — 344,354 ratings — published 1995
Vernon God Little (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prize)
avg rating 3.62 — 33,917 ratings — published 2003
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 140,088 ratings — published 1992
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prize)
avg rating 3.83 — 72,864 ratings — published 1991
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prize)
avg rating 4.32 — 38,710 ratings — published 1991
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as prize)
avg rating 4.08 — 840,351 ratings — published 2010
The Line of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prize)
avg rating 3.78 — 32,269 ratings — published 2004
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as prize)
avg rating 4.58 — 251,756 ratings — published 1985
“Gwyn asked Az, her teal eyes bright, 'What do we get if we finish the course?'
Az's shadows danced around him. 'Since there's no chance in hell any of you will finish the course, we didn't bother to get a prize.'
Boos sounded. Gwyn lifted her chin in challenge. 'We look forward to proving you wrong.”
― A Court of Silver Flames
Az's shadows danced around him. 'Since there's no chance in hell any of you will finish the course, we didn't bother to get a prize.'
Boos sounded. Gwyn lifted her chin in challenge. 'We look forward to proving you wrong.”
― A Court of Silver Flames
“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, and their responsibilities have been decreed by our species... the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit - for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.”
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