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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,782,608 ratings — published 2021
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,330,759 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.27 — 937,501 ratings — published 2014
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as short-list)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,629,627 ratings — published 2020
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,104,435 ratings — published 1992
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.37 — 926,369 ratings — published 1946
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,992 ratings — published 1967
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.57 — 273,002 ratings — published 2023
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.20 — 551,764 ratings — published 2020
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,081,051 ratings — published 2020
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,435,179 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.28 — 350,687 ratings — published 2015
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.46 — 882,861 ratings — published 2022
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,363,784 ratings — published 2017
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.31 — 698,512 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.27 — 993,485 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,772 ratings — published 1993
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,674 ratings — published 2016
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 528,346 ratings — published 2006
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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avg rating 4.66 — 715,242 ratings — published 2010
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 610,926 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,691,639 ratings — published 1965
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.30 — 356,202 ratings — published 2006
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,754 ratings — published 1866
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 314,485 ratings — published 1989
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,060,154 ratings — published 2006
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,970,024 ratings — published 1813
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 700,656 ratings — published 1952
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,606,773 ratings — published 2020
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.15 — 538,048 ratings — published 2018
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,137,719 ratings — published 1932
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,446,282 ratings — published 2022
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,959,767 ratings — published 2005
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.13 — 530,436 ratings — published 2022
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.40 — 409,161 ratings — published 1879
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 2,053,630 ratings — published 2014
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,702 ratings — published 1963
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,131,330 ratings — published 2011
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,386 ratings — published 1985
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.44 — 523,383 ratings — published 2020
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,398,519 ratings — published 2018
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as short-list)
avg rating 3.82 — 367,783 ratings — published 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,315,034 ratings — published 2011
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.09 — 210,697 ratings — published 2000
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.56 — 3,879,220 ratings — published 2023
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 304,259 ratings — published 2014
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 443,305 ratings — published 1967
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 844,358 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as short-list)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,120 ratings — published 2010
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-list)
avg rating 3.85 — 901,960 ratings — published 2005
