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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as short)
avg rating 4.07 — 343,844 ratings — published 1892
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as short)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,412,301 ratings — published 1945
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as short)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,339,914 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as short)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,363,831 ratings — published 1915
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 204 times as short)
avg rating 4.12 — 346,754 ratings — published 2017
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as short)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,403,759 ratings — published 1943
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as short)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,279,621 ratings — published 1952
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as short)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,774,748 ratings — published 1937
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as short)
avg rating 4.11 — 373,442 ratings — published 2021
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as short)
avg rating 3.68 — 356,665 ratings — published 2016
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as short)
avg rating 3.92 — 278,655 ratings — published 1962
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as short)
avg rating 4.14 — 210,344 ratings — published 1886
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as short)
avg rating 4.23 — 172,546 ratings — published 2021
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as short)
avg rating 4.08 — 298,171 ratings — published 1848
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 144 times as short)
avg rating 3.85 — 316,677 ratings — published 2019
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 142 times as short)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,752,498 ratings — published 1953
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as short)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,470,959 ratings — published 1988
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as short)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,783,259 ratings — published 1925
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as short)
avg rating 4.34 — 234,651 ratings — published 1956
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 128 times as short)
avg rating 4.39 — 323,526 ratings — published 2012
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as short)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,662 ratings — published 1948
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as short)
avg rating 3.83 — 647,849 ratings — published 1886
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as short)
avg rating 4.22 — 250,728 ratings — published 1929
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 117 times as short)
avg rating 4.37 — 50,504 ratings — published 1973
Foster (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as short)
avg rating 4.32 — 146,891 ratings — published 2010
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as short)
avg rating 4.17 — 214,991 ratings — published 1864
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as short)
avg rating 4.08 — 855,832 ratings — published 1922
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as short)
avg rating 3.87 — 173,218 ratings — published 1872
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as short)
avg rating 3.65 — 341,339 ratings — published 2007
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as short)
avg rating 4.09 — 901,511 ratings — published 1843
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as short)
avg rating 4.13 — 355,737 ratings — published 1995
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 96 times as short)
avg rating 3.93 — 117,932 ratings — published 2013
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as short)
avg rating 4.00 — 84,551 ratings — published 2021
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as short)
avg rating 3.92 — 42,924 ratings — published 2020
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 94 times as short)
avg rating 4.24 — 118,901 ratings — published 1843
The Grownup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as short)
avg rating 3.55 — 149,808 ratings — published 2014
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as short)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,140,887 ratings — published 1954
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as short)
avg rating 3.89 — 556,435 ratings — published 1895
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as short)
avg rating 4.02 — 652,571 ratings — published 2013
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as short)
avg rating 4.27 — 163,009 ratings — published 1942
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as short)
avg rating 3.66 — 644,722 ratings — published 2015
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as short)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,342,448 ratings — published 1956
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as short)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,755 ratings — published 1979
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 86 times as short)
avg rating 4.25 — 200,736 ratings — published 2018
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as short)
avg rating 4.18 — 204,107 ratings — published 1999
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as short)
avg rating 3.85 — 252,977 ratings — published 1958
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as short)
avg rating 3.43 — 549,481 ratings — published 1899
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as short)
avg rating 4.17 — 399,909 ratings — published 1895
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as short)
avg rating 3.78 — 346,786 ratings — published 1923
“Life is NOT short! It's just by the time we catch up to appreciating it...we've already left life at least halfway behind us.”
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“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
