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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,537,148 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,828,618 ratings — published 1945
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,570,240 ratings — published 1915
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,961,086 ratings — published 1937
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,158,193 ratings — published 1925
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,381,006 ratings — published 1952
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 292,842 ratings — published 1947
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,324,458 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,002,678 ratings — published 1963
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 263,799 ratings — published 1886
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.38 — 188,978 ratings — published 1898
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 257,682 ratings — published 1958
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,012,535 ratings — published 1818
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 965,225 ratings — published 1843
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 322,206 ratings — published 1962
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 389,583 ratings — published 1892
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,013,893 ratings — published 1890
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 262,593 ratings — published 1864
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.43 — 577,058 ratings — published 1899
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.47 — 142,468 ratings — published 1911
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 60,018 ratings — published 1913
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.69 — 234,227 ratings — published 1899
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,833 ratings — published 1848
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 701,466 ratings — published 1886
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 86,798 ratings — published 1929
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 283,561 ratings — published 1929
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 918,228 ratings — published 1922
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,617,047 ratings — published 1943
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.76 — 311,117 ratings — published 1759
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 362,982 ratings — published 1898
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,021,521 ratings — published 1951
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 305,873 ratings — published 1956
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,406,532 ratings — published 1956
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 19 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 405,090 ratings — published 1902
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.75 — 427,460 ratings — published 1958
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 377,340 ratings — published 1925
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 164,324 ratings — published 1774
Death in Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.67 — 74,390 ratings — published 1911
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 473,310 ratings — published 1817
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,531,442 ratings — published 1969
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 136,408 ratings — published 1973
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 582,443 ratings — published 1895
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.17 — 416,694 ratings — published 1895
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as short-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 794,141 ratings — published 1962
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 253,763 ratings — published 1981
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,854 ratings — published 1966
A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 209,362 ratings — published 1908
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,291 ratings — published 1962
Bartleby the Scrivener (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,271 ratings — published 1853
Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
by (shelved 13 times as short-classics)
avg rating 3.20 — 20,292 ratings — published 1924