100 books
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26 voters
Purgatory Books
Showing 1-50 of 6,039
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.09 — 176,767 ratings — published 1320
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,783,292 ratings — published 1996
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.10 — 999,276 ratings — published 2001
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,123,528 ratings — published 2011
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.34 — 298,839 ratings — published 2014
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.25 — 836,761 ratings — published 1990
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.03 — 210,495 ratings — published 1321
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,676,390 ratings — published 1965
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.11 — 953,489 ratings — published 1878
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,645,362 ratings — published 1948
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,245,071 ratings — published 1847
The Wolf Within (Purgatory, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,713 ratings — published 2012
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,131,610 ratings — published 1967
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.25 — 104,059 ratings — published 1996
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,029,716 ratings — published 1960
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,207,207 ratings — published 1954
Lost Gods (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,423 ratings — published 2016
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,516,204 ratings — published 1897
Charming the Beast (Purgatory, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,562 ratings — published 2014
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,962,497 ratings — published 1818
Immortal Consequences (The Souls of Blackwood Academy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.70 — 24,300 ratings — published 2025
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,945,852 ratings — published 2018
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.27 — 977,560 ratings — published 2015
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.13 — 516,905 ratings — published 2022
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.15 — 525,406 ratings — published 2018
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.11 — 204,329 ratings — published 2018
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.20 — 82,373 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,099,189 ratings — published 2011
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,457,792 ratings — published 2016
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.31 — 739,456 ratings — published 2001
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.75 — 182,225 ratings — published 2017
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,202,328 ratings — published 2015
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,379,157 ratings — published 1847
Marked by the Vampire (Purgatory, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,011 ratings — published 2014
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.66 — 704,612 ratings — published 2010
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.39 — 403,756 ratings — published 1879
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,057,902 ratings — published 1846
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.73 — 172,806 ratings — published 2025
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.32 — 304,246 ratings — published 2025
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,440,595 ratings — published 2015
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,125,897 ratings — published 1866
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,854,664 ratings — published 2022
The Teller of Small Fortunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 3.80 — 37,517 ratings — published 2024
House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.25 — 755,439 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.15 — 235,049 ratings — published 1985
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,475,550 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,286,740 ratings — published 2017
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.03 — 441,047 ratings — published 2015
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.23 — 629,803 ratings — published 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as purgatory)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,584,446 ratings — published 2020
“She is why purgatory was invented.”
― Fall on Your Knees
― Fall on Your Knees
“Purgatory was a bit damp,’ said Bengt, ‘but heaven was more or less as I’d imagined it.”
― Kon-Tiki
― Kon-Tiki












