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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,146,716 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,769,995 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,529,193 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,014,954 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,814,211 ratings — published 1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,005,918 ratings — published 1890
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,159,728 ratings — published 1866
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,127,351 ratings — published 1960
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 979,597 ratings — published 1955
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,562,618 ratings — published 1915
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,004,908 ratings — published 1818
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,993,879 ratings — published 1963
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,818,646 ratings — published 1996
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,152,683 ratings — published 1967
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,635,211 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,818,867 ratings — published 1997
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,377,484 ratings — published 1952
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,155,610 ratings — published 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,528,799 ratings — published 1969
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,295,806 ratings — published 1847
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,013,573 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,317,007 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,954,065 ratings — published 1937
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,563,495 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,317,956 ratings — published 1954
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,610,128 ratings — published 1943
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,673,953 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 575,951 ratings — published 1899
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,135 ratings — published 1961
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,810 ratings — published 1922
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 422,559 ratings — published 1925
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,043,992 ratings — published 1999
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,184,259 ratings — published 2011
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 884,903 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 — 2,078,067 ratings — published 1979
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,416,101 ratings — published 1847
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,285,738 ratings — published 2008
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 226,420 ratings — published 1927
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 444,361 ratings — published 2019
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 260,677 ratings — published 1864
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,349,747 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,776,807 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,234,847 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,926,194 ratings — published 2003
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,476,818 ratings — published 2018
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 3.71 — 390,210 ratings — published 1856
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,126,396 ratings — published 1992
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 917,246 ratings — published 1922
“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.”
― In America
― In America
“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.”
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