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The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as profound)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,635,186 ratings — published 1943
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as profound)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,788,260 ratings — published 1988
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as profound)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,166,893 ratings — published 1960
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as profound)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,032,601 ratings — published 1890
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as profound)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,998,433 ratings — published 2005
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as profound)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,861,231 ratings — published 1945
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as profound)
avg rating 4.36 — 951,407 ratings — published 1946
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as profound)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,292,830 ratings — published 1997
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,338,731 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as profound)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,021,700 ratings — published 1963
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as profound)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,633,830 ratings — published 2003
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as profound)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,825,138 ratings — published 1949
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as profound)
avg rating 4.02 — 843,303 ratings — published 2003
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,411,975 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 668,016 ratings — published 1996
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as profound)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,357,421 ratings — published 1947
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,587,791 ratings — published 1985
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,169,379 ratings — published 1932
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as profound)
avg rating 4.09 — 924,910 ratings — published
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 421,748 ratings — published 1879
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as profound)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,554,493 ratings — published 1942
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 770,790 ratings — published 1952
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,009,058 ratings — published 2001
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 4.41 — 862,511 ratings — published 2016
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,184,786 ratings — published 1925
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,837,023 ratings — published 2007
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,269,257 ratings — published 1964
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,027,663 ratings — published 2015
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,721,054 ratings — published 2020
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 4.28 — 697,873 ratings — published 2012
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 4.27 — 388,521 ratings — published 180
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 479,918 ratings — published 1952
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.10 — 634,727 ratings — published 2007
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,585,100 ratings — published 1915
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,230,887 ratings — published 2012
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,824,119 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,998,374 ratings — published 2018
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,175,690 ratings — published 1866
We Are the Ants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 55,285 ratings — published 2016
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.16 — 267,102 ratings — published 1864
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,217,652 ratings — published 2011
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 855,596 ratings — published 1966
Frankenstein (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,037,091 ratings — published 1818
The Prophet (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 341,428 ratings — published 1923
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,087,096 ratings — published 1999
The Help (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 3,112,878 ratings — published 2009
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,097,025 ratings — published 1846
Veronika Decides to Die (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 251,178 ratings — published 1998
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 487,972 ratings — published 2012
Life of Pi (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,793,964 ratings — published 2001
“At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
―
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
―
“…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us.
And someone -a father, a lover, someone- able to take us by the hand and find that river -imagine it, invent it- and put us on its stream, with the lightness of one only word, goodbye. This, really, would be wonderful. It would be sweet, life, every life. And things wouldn’t hurt, but they would get near taken by stream, one could first shave and then touch them and only finally be touched. Be wounded, also. Die because of them. Doesn’t matter. But everything would be, finally, human. It would be enough someone’s fancy -a father, a lover, someone- could invent a way, here in the middle of the silence, in this land which don’t wanna talk. Clement way, and beautiful.
A way from here to the sea.”
― Ocean Sea
And someone -a father, a lover, someone- able to take us by the hand and find that river -imagine it, invent it- and put us on its stream, with the lightness of one only word, goodbye. This, really, would be wonderful. It would be sweet, life, every life. And things wouldn’t hurt, but they would get near taken by stream, one could first shave and then touch them and only finally be touched. Be wounded, also. Die because of them. Doesn’t matter. But everything would be, finally, human. It would be enough someone’s fancy -a father, a lover, someone- could invent a way, here in the middle of the silence, in this land which don’t wanna talk. Clement way, and beautiful.
A way from here to the sea.”
― Ocean Sea
