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The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as profound)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,474,134 ratings — published 1943
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as profound)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,564,210 ratings — published 1988
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as profound)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,875,322 ratings — published 1890
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as profound)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,878,442 ratings — published 1960
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as profound)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,876,074 ratings — published 2005
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as profound)
avg rating 4.37 — 875,889 ratings — published 1946
Fight Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 642,606 ratings — published 1996
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as profound)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,832,807 ratings — published 1953
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,199,084 ratings — published 1997
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,197,468 ratings — published 1954
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,362,811 ratings — published 1956
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as profound)
avg rating 4.01 — 802,621 ratings — published 2003
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,489,886 ratings — published 2003
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as profound)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,452,685 ratings — published 1949
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as profound)
avg rating 4.08 — 875,990 ratings — published 1922
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,419,145 ratings — published 1985
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,074,959 ratings — published 1932
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,909,960 ratings — published 1925
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,188,466 ratings — published 1947
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 636,991 ratings — published 1952
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,234,906 ratings — published 1964
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 4.10 — 990,393 ratings — published 2001
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 924,813 ratings — published 2015
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 805,287 ratings — published 2016
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,884,627 ratings — published 1818
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,733,238 ratings — published 2007
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 385,777 ratings — published 1880
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,397,929 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,544,279 ratings — published 1945
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,459,366 ratings — published 2022
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,194,000 ratings — published 2012
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,621,075 ratings — published 2018
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,078,492 ratings — published 1866
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.29 — 675,899 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,979,918 ratings — published 2011
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 347,843 ratings — published 180
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.37 — 457,328 ratings — published 1952
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.23 — 328,790 ratings — published 1923
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,805,210 ratings — published 1993
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,999,147 ratings — published 1999
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,022,389 ratings — published 1844
Veronika Decides to Die (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 242,380 ratings — published 1998
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 474,881 ratings — published 2012
Life of Pi (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,752,781 ratings — published 2001
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
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avg rating 3.84 — 333,990 ratings — published 2019
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 595,003 ratings — published 2007
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,450,772 ratings — published 2020
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,424,323 ratings — published 1915
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 135,013 ratings — published 2013
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as profound)
avg rating 3.75 — 868,578 ratings — published 2017
“Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in an endless moment of knowing. Yesterday was today and hereon in.”
― The Erkeley Shadows
― The Erkeley Shadows
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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