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Realism Books
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Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as realism)
avg rating 3.71 — 378,662 ratings — published 1856
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as realism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,869 ratings — published 1866
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,877 ratings — published 1878
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,766 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,864,596 ratings — published 1937
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,245 ratings — published 1967
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as realism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,741 ratings — published 1925
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,765,198 ratings — published 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as realism)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,598 ratings — published 1960
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as realism)
avg rating 4.39 — 393,324 ratings — published 1880
Père Goriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 67,667 ratings — published 1835
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as realism)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,342,344 ratings — published 1885
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as realism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,002,110 ratings — published 1939
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as realism)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,859,956 ratings — published 1813
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 879,631 ratings — published 1861
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 221,004 ratings — published 1869
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,816 ratings — published 1869
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as realism)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,605 ratings — published 2003
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as realism)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,018,450 ratings — published 1999
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as realism)
avg rating 4.04 — 180,790 ratings — published 1872
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as realism)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,758,306 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 34 times as realism)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,686,658 ratings — published 2005
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 230,880 ratings — published 1886
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,900,438 ratings — published 2018
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as realism)
avg rating 3.86 — 84,496 ratings — published 1830
Fathers and Sons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as realism)
avg rating 4.00 — 102,497 ratings — published 1862
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as realism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,430,972 ratings — published 1942
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,483,057 ratings — published 1868
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 848,423 ratings — published 1862
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,515,977 ratings — published 1997
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,606,590 ratings — published 2003
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 236,753 ratings — published 1864
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,020,105 ratings — published 2017
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 85,582 ratings — published 1881
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 554,994 ratings — published 2002
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as realism)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,364,949 ratings — published 2005
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as realism)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,304 ratings — published 2005
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as realism)
avg rating 3.77 — 165,853 ratings — published 1879
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,746 ratings — published 2015
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,025,855 ratings — published 1876
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,706 ratings — published 1847
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,349 ratings — published 1955
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.88 — 430,590 ratings — published 1838
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 4.30 — 324,890 ratings — published 1982
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,268 ratings — published 1847
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 304,327 ratings — published 1891
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,265,143 ratings — published 2012
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,052,016 ratings — published 1992
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,327,971 ratings — published 1952
“The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine...
And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”
― The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective
And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”
― The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective
“You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds.
And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life.”
― A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
