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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 391,706 ratings — published 1892
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as short)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,846,011 ratings — published 1945
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as short)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,546,615 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as short)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,578,545 ratings — published 1915
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as short)
avg rating 4.07 — 528,033 ratings — published 2021
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as short)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,969,150 ratings — published 1937
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as short)
avg rating 4.14 — 267,366 ratings — published 1886
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as short)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,385,348 ratings — published 1952
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as short)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,625,703 ratings — published 1943
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 222 times as short)
avg rating 4.10 — 415,585 ratings — published 2017
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as short)
avg rating 4.05 — 466,539 ratings — published 1848
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as short)
avg rating 3.90 — 326,927 ratings — published 1962
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as short)
avg rating 3.66 — 415,108 ratings — published 2016
Foster (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as short)
avg rating 4.29 — 207,034 ratings — published 2010
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as short)
avg rating 4.03 — 737,370 ratings — published 1995
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as short)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,741 ratings — published 2021
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as short)
avg rating 4.03 — 122,539 ratings — published 1948
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as short)
avg rating 4.12 — 124,950 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as short)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,778,435 ratings — published 1988
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as short)
avg rating 4.34 — 309,802 ratings — published 1956
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 153 times as short)
avg rating 3.82 — 378,529 ratings — published 2019
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as short)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,012,759 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as short)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,172,394 ratings — published 1925
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as short)
avg rating 4.22 — 285,193 ratings — published 1929
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as short)
avg rating 4.16 — 264,935 ratings — published 1864
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as short)
avg rating 3.83 — 705,854 ratings — published 1886
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 137 times as short)
avg rating 4.36 — 59,163 ratings — published 1973
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 135 times as short)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,365 ratings — published 2012
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as short)
avg rating 4.26 — 199,835 ratings — published 1942
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as short)
avg rating 3.86 — 236,700 ratings — published 1872
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 114 times as short)
avg rating 4.24 — 133,202 ratings — published 1843
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as short)
avg rating 4.09 — 922,476 ratings — published 1922
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 469,063 ratings — published
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as short)
avg rating 3.59 — 294,587 ratings — published 1947
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as short)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,921 ratings — published 2013
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as short)
avg rating 4.09 — 966,712 ratings — published 1843
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as short)
avg rating 4.26 — 135,928 ratings — published 1929
The Grownup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as short)
avg rating 3.54 — 161,393 ratings — published 2014
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)
by (shelved 98 times as short)
avg rating 4.29 — 41,156 ratings — published 2022
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as short)
avg rating 3.97 — 95,441 ratings — published 2021
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as short)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,432 ratings — published 2020
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as short)
avg rating 3.89 — 583,474 ratings — published 1895
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as short)
avg rating 3.64 — 784,996 ratings — published 2015
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as short)
avg rating 4.17 — 417,416 ratings — published 1895
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as short)
avg rating 3.43 — 578,290 ratings — published 1899
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as short)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,331,959 ratings — published 1954
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as short)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,409,377 ratings — published 2012
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as short)
avg rating 3.85 — 258,093 ratings — published 1958
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as short)
avg rating 3.67 — 253,753 ratings — published 1984
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as short)
avg rating 4.18 — 212,318 ratings — published 1999
“Instead of my bucket list book, this is the story of my abbreviated life, short but nonetheless possessing secret love, joy and pain, adventure and hard work, luck and its opposite”
― Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
― Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
“It's a little bit sad, when you seem very near
To adventures and things of that sort,
Which nearly begin, and then don't; and you know
It is only because you are short.”
― A Dome Of Many Colored Glass
To adventures and things of that sort,
Which nearly begin, and then don't; and you know
It is only because you are short.”
― A Dome Of Many Colored Glass
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