100 books
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3 voters
Prose Books
Showing 1-50 of 27,337
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,950,443 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,508,932 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,418,255 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,910,781 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,590,663 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,921,479 ratings — published 1960
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 950,771 ratings — published 1955
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,091,844 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,897,201 ratings — published 1890
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,909,199 ratings — published 1818
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,444,748 ratings — published 1915
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,860,224 ratings — published 1953
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,111,485 ratings — published 1967
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,746,000 ratings — published 1996
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,476,727 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,475,011 ratings — published 1997
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,088,580 ratings — published 1932
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,852,743 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,489,477 ratings — published 1969
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,321,668 ratings — published 1952
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,118,172 ratings — published 1847
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,235,008 ratings — published 1963
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,836,252 ratings — published 1813
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,216,485 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,444,568 ratings — published 1985
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 560,896 ratings — published 1899
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 889,315 ratings — published 1961
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,521,119 ratings — published 1998
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,498,179 ratings — published 1943
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,044,215 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,873,626 ratings — published 1999
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 399,067 ratings — published 1925
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.76 — 138,406 ratings — published 1922
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,014,928 ratings — published 2011
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,024,737 ratings — published 1979
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 852,037 ratings — published 1974
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,674,309 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,127,775 ratings — published 2007
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 216,244 ratings — published 1927
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,216,820 ratings — published 2000
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,968,236 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,814,214 ratings — published 2003
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,336,484 ratings — published 1847
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 412,330 ratings — published 2019
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 936,937 ratings — published 1878
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 773,164 ratings — published 1962
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.17 — 233,454 ratings — published 1864
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,041,920 ratings — published 1992
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 547,596 ratings — published 1984
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.”
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