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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,098,685 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,702,235 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,498,269 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,988,057 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,763,034 ratings — published 1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,485 ratings — published 1890
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,820 ratings — published 1866
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,077,026 ratings — published 1960
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 972,134 ratings — published 1955
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,525,217 ratings — published 1915
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,982,476 ratings — published 1818
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,842 ratings — published 1963
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,140,047 ratings — published 1967
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,799,345 ratings — published 1996
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,594,813 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,518,588 ratings — published 1969
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,970,202 ratings — published 1813
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,362,145 ratings — published 1952
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,137,799 ratings — published 1932
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,729,635 ratings — published 1997
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,270,158 ratings — published 1847
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,294,980 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,488 ratings — published 1985
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,927,264 ratings — published 1937
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,293,335 ratings — published 1954
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,578,685 ratings — published 1943
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 572,186 ratings — published 1899
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 901,217 ratings — published 1961
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,637,429 ratings — published 1998
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 416,354 ratings — published 1925
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,036 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,001,837 ratings — published 1999
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,136,444 ratings — published 2011
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 875,858 ratings — published 1974
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,064,521 ratings — published 1979
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,396,414 ratings — published 1847
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,207,901 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,751,348 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,208,403 ratings — published 2007
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 437,092 ratings — published 2019
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 253,211 ratings — published 1864
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,317,225 ratings — published 2000
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 223,751 ratings — published 1927
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,898,793 ratings — published 2003
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,435,343 ratings — published 2018
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,104,526 ratings — published 1992
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 3.77 — 371,311 ratings — published 1925
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 960,348 ratings — published 1878
“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
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Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
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“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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