26 books
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16 voters
Prose Books
Showing 1-50 of 26,997
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,865,058 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,402,909 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,381,665 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,501,567 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,869,926 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,829,660 ratings — published 1960
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 939,787 ratings — published 1955
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,856,709 ratings — published 1890
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,068,143 ratings — published 1866
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,863,379 ratings — published 1818
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,406,097 ratings — published 1915
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,807,207 ratings — published 1953
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,719,533 ratings — published 1996
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,096,786 ratings — published 1967
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,429,238 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,063,083 ratings — published 1932
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,206,443 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,317,998 ratings — published 1997
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,813,246 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,476,070 ratings — published 1969
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,759,533 ratings — published 1813
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,024,663 ratings — published 1847
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,178,533 ratings — published 1954
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,301,929 ratings — published 1952
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,398,096 ratings — published 1985
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 555,972 ratings — published 1899
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 883,950 ratings — published 1961
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,450,566 ratings — published 1943
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,456,111 ratings — published 1998
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,028,986 ratings — published 2006
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 391,484 ratings — published 1925
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,412 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,800,201 ratings — published 1999
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,955,772 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 — 2,005,378 ratings — published 1979
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 839,201 ratings — published 1974
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 213,400 ratings — published 1927
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,307,912 ratings — published 1847
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 399,153 ratings — published 2019
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,819,756 ratings — published 2008
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 925,542 ratings — published 1878
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,634,825 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,086,025 ratings — published 2007
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 766,257 ratings — published 1962
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,163,768 ratings — published 2000
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 540,106 ratings — published 1984
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 3.83 — 174,934 ratings — published 1914
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 870,654 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 36 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,770,218 ratings — published 2003
“I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
―
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
―
“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













