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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,995,687 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,570,162 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,442,363 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,641,518 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,933,063 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,106,850 ratings — published 1866
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,968,544 ratings — published 1960
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,921,820 ratings — published 1890
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 957,707 ratings — published 1955
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,935,343 ratings — published 1818
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,468,617 ratings — published 1915
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,120,385 ratings — published 1967
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,891,292 ratings — published 1953
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,762,905 ratings — published 1996
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,512,861 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,552,907 ratings — published 1997
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,103,877 ratings — published 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,498,022 ratings — published 1969
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,333,604 ratings — published 1952
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,875,070 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,202,257 ratings — published 1847
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,879,523 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,253,812 ratings — published 1963
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 564,497 ratings — published 1899
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,238,755 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,472,744 ratings — published 1985
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 892,867 ratings — published 1961
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,522,606 ratings — published 1943
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,555,868 ratings — published 1998
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 404,473 ratings — published 1925
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,054,712 ratings — published 2006
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 3.76 — 139,268 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,914,790 ratings — published 1999
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,056,581 ratings — published 2011
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 858,992 ratings — published 1974
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,036,770 ratings — published 1979
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,697,566 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,152,503 ratings — published 2007
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 218,456 ratings — published 1927
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 421,034 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,250,276 ratings — published 2000
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,040,951 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,841,569 ratings — published 2003
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 944,221 ratings — published 1878
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,355,213 ratings — published 1847
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 778,436 ratings — published 1962
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.17 — 239,482 ratings — published 1864
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,061,026 ratings — published 1992
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 552,407 ratings — published 1984
“But I was young
and didn’t know better
and someone should have told me to capture every second
every kiss & every night
Because now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are people
watching
and I just want to be somewhere silent
somewhere still
But still I don’t want to be alone because I’m scared and lonely
and I don’t understand
Because I was alone my whole life
My whole life
I was so damn lonely and I was content with that
because I liked myself and my own company
and I didn’t need anyone
I thought
But then there was you .. ...
So, someone should have told me that love is for those few brave who can handle the unbearable emptiness,
the unbearable guilt and lack of oneself,
Because I lost myself to someone I love
and I might get myself back one day
but it will take time, it will take time.
This is gonna take some time.
I wish someone would have told me this.
Someone should have told me this.”
― Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
and didn’t know better
and someone should have told me to capture every second
every kiss & every night
Because now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are people
watching
and I just want to be somewhere silent
somewhere still
But still I don’t want to be alone because I’m scared and lonely
and I don’t understand
Because I was alone my whole life
My whole life
I was so damn lonely and I was content with that
because I liked myself and my own company
and I didn’t need anyone
I thought
But then there was you .. ...
So, someone should have told me that love is for those few brave who can handle the unbearable emptiness,
the unbearable guilt and lack of oneself,
Because I lost myself to someone I love
and I might get myself back one day
but it will take time, it will take time.
This is gonna take some time.
I wish someone would have told me this.
Someone should have told me this.”
― Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”
― Complete Prose Works
― Complete Prose Works
