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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as serious)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,541,830 ratings — published 1948
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as serious)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,605 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as serious)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,304 ratings — published 2005
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as serious)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,617,913 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as serious)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,598 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as serious)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,459,956 ratings — published 1985
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as serious)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,227,143 ratings — published 1947
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as serious)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,741 ratings — published 1925
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as serious)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,280,374 ratings — published 2004
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as serious)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,245 ratings — published 1967
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as serious)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,298 ratings — published 1954
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as serious)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,119,233 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as serious)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,755,868 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as serious)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,766 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as serious)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,876,366 ratings — published 1953
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as serious)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,374,760 ratings — published 1956
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as serious)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,739 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as serious)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,825 ratings — published 2011
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as serious)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,430,972 ratings — published 1942
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as serious)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,859,956 ratings — published 1813
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as serious)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,096,636 ratings — published 1932
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as serious)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,000,396 ratings — published 2014
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as serious)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,040,254 ratings — published 2009
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as serious)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,869 ratings — published 1866
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as serious)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,020,105 ratings — published 2017
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as serious)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,706 ratings — published 1847
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as serious)
avg rating 4.37 — 893,460 ratings — published 1946
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as serious)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,864,596 ratings — published 1937
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as serious)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,469,325 ratings — published 2002
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as serious)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,052,016 ratings — published 1992
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as serious)
avg rating 4.05 — 634,592 ratings — published 1999
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as serious)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,361 ratings — published 1890
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as serious)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,184 ratings — published 1961
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as serious)
avg rating 3.95 — 567,196 ratings — published 2001
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,889,012 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 4.17 — 595,641 ratings — published 2011
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,018,450 ratings — published 1999
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as serious)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,617,476 ratings — published 1988
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,765,198 ratings — published 2012
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,200,498 ratings — published 1996
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,268 ratings — published 1847
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,244,848 ratings — published 1963
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,049,826 ratings — published 2006
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.08 — 839,435 ratings — published 2010
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,708,227 ratings — published 2006
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as serious)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,832,241 ratings — published 1993
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as serious)
avg rating 4.12 — 864,213 ratings — published 2020
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as serious)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,736 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as serious)
avg rating 4.34 — 172,166 ratings — published 2019
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as serious)
avg rating 4.41 — 818,726 ratings — published 2016
“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
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“If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!”
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