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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,512,598 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,775,224 ratings — published 1945
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,117,778 ratings — published 1925
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,937,688 ratings — published 1937
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,540,445 ratings — published 1915
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,367,963 ratings — published 1952
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,303,036 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,972,372 ratings — published 1963
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 288,294 ratings — published 1947
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.38 — 186,996 ratings — published 1898
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 254,337 ratings — published 1886
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,545 ratings — published 1958
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,990,792 ratings — published 1818
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 960,898 ratings — published 1843
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 315,935 ratings — published 1962
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 384,108 ratings — published 1892
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,987,797 ratings — published 1890
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.69 — 232,978 ratings — published 1899
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.43 — 573,588 ratings — published 1899
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.47 — 141,719 ratings — published 1911
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 60,498 ratings — published 1913
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 693,671 ratings — published 1886
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 256,030 ratings — published 1864
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 435,020 ratings — published 1848
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 278,745 ratings — published 1929
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 85,656 ratings — published 1929
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.76 — 309,344 ratings — published 1759
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 360,385 ratings — published 1898
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,590,771 ratings — published 1943
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,998,691 ratings — published 1951
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 293,723 ratings — published 1956
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 911,304 ratings — published 1922
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 19 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.13 — 401,794 ratings — published 1902
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,399,238 ratings — published 1956
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 372,826 ratings — published 1925
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,914 ratings — published 1958
Death in Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.68 — 73,237 ratings — published 1911
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 162,543 ratings — published 1774
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 469,728 ratings — published 1817
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 133,858 ratings — published 1973
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.17 — 414,925 ratings — published 1895
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 790,121 ratings — published 1962
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 250,022 ratings — published 1981
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 579,144 ratings — published 1895
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,789 ratings — published 1966
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,522,557 ratings — published 1969
A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 207,922 ratings — published 1908
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 128,588 ratings — published 1962
Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
by (shelved 13 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.20 — 20,163 ratings — published 1924
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 173,056 ratings — published 1939