38 books
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42 voters
Prose Books
Showing 1-50 of 26,997
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,866,230 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,404,496 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,382,318 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,502,990 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,870,495 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,830,854 ratings — published 1960
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 939,970 ratings — published 1955
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,857,315 ratings — published 1890
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,068,545 ratings — published 1866
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,864,139 ratings — published 1818
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,406,724 ratings — published 1915
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,807,976 ratings — published 1953
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,719,940 ratings — published 1996
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,097,067 ratings — published 1967
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,429,947 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,063,449 ratings — published 1932
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,206,861 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,320,407 ratings — published 1997
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,813,785 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,476,252 ratings — published 1969
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,760,596 ratings — published 1813
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,025,348 ratings — published 1847
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,179,118 ratings — published 1954
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,302,255 ratings — published 1952
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,398,715 ratings — published 1985
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 556,064 ratings — published 1899
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 884,032 ratings — published 1961
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,451,406 ratings — published 1943
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,457,058 ratings — published 1998
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,029,174 ratings — published 2006
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 391,599 ratings — published 1925
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,419 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,801,200 ratings — published 1999
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,956,461 ratings — published 2011
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,005,677 ratings — published 1979
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 839,386 ratings — published 1974
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 213,449 ratings — published 1927
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,308,319 ratings — published 1847
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 399,326 ratings — published 2019
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,821,957 ratings — published 2008
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 925,727 ratings — published 1878
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,635,366 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,086,638 ratings — published 2007
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 766,363 ratings — published 1962
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,164,538 ratings — published 2000
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 540,242 ratings — published 1984
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 3.83 — 174,978 ratings — published 1914
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 870,849 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,770,849 ratings — published 2003
“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”
― Lover's Gift
― Lover's Gift
“The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.”
― Palace of Stone
― Palace of Stone












