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Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as realism)
avg rating 3.71 — 374,706 ratings — published 1856
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as realism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,079,599 ratings — published 1866
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 931,168 ratings — published 1878
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,892,462 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,834,743 ratings — published 1937
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as realism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,914,116 ratings — published 1925
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,104,335 ratings — published 1967
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,722,067 ratings — published 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as realism)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,882,883 ratings — published 1960
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as realism)
avg rating 4.39 — 386,183 ratings — published 1880
Père Goriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 66,896 ratings — published 1835
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as realism)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,336,808 ratings — published 1885
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as realism)
avg rating 4.03 — 994,030 ratings — published 1939
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as realism)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,800,467 ratings — published 1813
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 873,787 ratings — published 1861
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as realism)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,491,983 ratings — published 2003
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 217,325 ratings — published 1869
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 365,706 ratings — published 1869
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as realism)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,000,406 ratings — published 1999
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as realism)
avg rating 4.04 — 179,178 ratings — published 1872
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as realism)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,748,250 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 34 times as realism)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,655,479 ratings — published 2005
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 223,354 ratings — published 1886
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,864,657 ratings — published 2018
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as realism)
avg rating 3.86 — 83,576 ratings — published 1830
Fathers and Sons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as realism)
avg rating 4.00 — 101,213 ratings — published 1862
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as realism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,399,782 ratings — published 1942
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,459,627 ratings — published 1868
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as realism)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,310,803 ratings — published 2005
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 843,626 ratings — published 1862
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,011,149 ratings — published 2017
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,408,720 ratings — published 1997
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,597,010 ratings — published 2003
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 85,165 ratings — published 1881
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 228,626 ratings — published 1864
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 548,228 ratings — published 2002
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as realism)
avg rating 3.77 — 164,070 ratings — published 1879
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 4.28 — 926,200 ratings — published 2015
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,877,803 ratings — published 2005
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,018,400 ratings — published 1876
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.99 — 728,944 ratings — published 1987
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.88 — 427,673 ratings — published 1838
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 4.30 — 319,510 ratings — published 1982
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,049,135 ratings — published 1847
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,259,395 ratings — published 2012
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,027,091 ratings — published 1992
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,312,117 ratings — published 1952
Eugénie Grandet (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,854 ratings — published 1833
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.87 — 945,270 ratings — published 1955
“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.”
― Flotsam
― Flotsam
“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
