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Prose Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,810,627 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,331,571 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,352,980 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,441,817 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,842,452 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,772,310 ratings — published 1960
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 931,492 ratings — published 1955
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,826,725 ratings — published 1890
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,049,592 ratings — published 1866
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,809,065 ratings — published 1818
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,377,634 ratings — published 1915
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,700,721 ratings — published 1996
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,770,269 ratings — published 1953
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,086,310 ratings — published 1967
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,395,688 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,044,682 ratings — published 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,465,987 ratings — published 1969
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,212,819 ratings — published 1997
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,711,156 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,185,743 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,787,416 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,993,223 ratings — published 1847
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,153,347 ratings — published 1954
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,286,580 ratings — published 1952
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,368,113 ratings — published 1985
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 551,710 ratings — published 1899
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 879,736 ratings — published 1961
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,411,328 ratings — published 1998
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,419,233 ratings — published 1943
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 385,138 ratings — published 1925
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 3.77 — 139,584 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,749,058 ratings — published 1999
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,017,581 ratings — published 2006
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,990,675 ratings — published 1979
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,920,331 ratings — published 2011
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,287,888 ratings — published 1847
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 828,286 ratings — published 1974
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 760,855 ratings — published 1962
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,124,428 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,605,615 ratings — published 2005
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 3.83 — 172,685 ratings — published 1914
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,729,247 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,054,604 ratings — published 2007
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 211,010 ratings — published 1927
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 917,979 ratings — published 1878
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 388,934 ratings — published 2019
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 534,068 ratings — published 1984
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 860,450 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,737,844 ratings — published 2003
“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.”
―
“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background.
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
― Unravel Me
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
― Unravel Me
