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Realism Books
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Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as realism)
avg rating 3.71 — 386,616 ratings — published 1856
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as realism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,139,575 ratings — published 1866
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as realism)
avg rating 4.11 — 959,778 ratings — published 1878
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,986,086 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,925,288 ratings — published 1937
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as realism)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,094,964 ratings — published 1925
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,283 ratings — published 1967
Père Goriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 69,120 ratings — published 1835
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,849,452 ratings — published 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as realism)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,073,247 ratings — published 1960
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as realism)
avg rating 4.40 — 408,774 ratings — published 1879
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as realism)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,350,160 ratings — published 1885
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as realism)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,967,010 ratings — published 1813
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as realism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,019,761 ratings — published 1939
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 890,690 ratings — published 1861
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 228,719 ratings — published 1869
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,411 ratings — published 1868
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as realism)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,584,817 ratings — published 2003
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as realism)
avg rating 4.05 — 185,602 ratings — published 1872
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,969,904 ratings — published 2018
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as realism)
avg rating 3.86 — 86,520 ratings — published 1830
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as realism)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,056,781 ratings — published 1999
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as realism)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,778,895 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 34 times as realism)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,749,561 ratings — published 2005
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 250,212 ratings — published 1886
Fathers and Sons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as realism)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,043 ratings — published 1862
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as realism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,496,064 ratings — published 1942
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as realism)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,525,405 ratings — published 1868
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as realism)
avg rating 4.22 — 858,975 ratings — published 1862
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as realism)
avg rating 4.16 — 252,665 ratings — published 1864
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as realism)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,470,034 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,723,469 ratings — published 1997
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,037,203 ratings — published 2017
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,626,214 ratings — published 2003
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 86,477 ratings — published 1881
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 4.11 — 570,123 ratings — published 2002
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as realism)
avg rating 4.27 — 992,326 ratings — published 2015
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as realism)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,958,347 ratings — published 2005
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as realism)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,395,065 ratings — published 1847
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as realism)
avg rating 3.77 — 169,120 ratings — published 1879
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,268,296 ratings — published 1847
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 307,872 ratings — published 1891
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,039,861 ratings — published 1876
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.98 — 108,591 ratings — published 1905
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.98 — 762,136 ratings — published 1987
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.88 — 435,716 ratings — published 1838
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 4.31 — 341,277 ratings — published 1982
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 4.06 — 423,400 ratings — published 1848
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,103,052 ratings — published 1992
“I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.”
― Wise Blood
― Wise Blood
“Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.”
― H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
― H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
