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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,346,814 ratings — published 2018
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.58 — 235,228 ratings — published 2023
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.44 — 660,408 ratings — published 1952
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.21 — 506,959 ratings — published 2020
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,285,661 ratings — published 2011
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.28 — 360,782 ratings — published 180
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.17 — 598,475 ratings — published 2011
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.39 — 396,584 ratings — published 1880
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.37 — 899,686 ratings — published 1946
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.28 — 305,464 ratings — published 1989
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.27 — 844,844 ratings — published 2014
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,061,892 ratings — published 1992
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,572,681 ratings — published 1948
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,444,676 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,900,394 ratings — published 2018
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,388,388 ratings — published 2018
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,107,502 ratings — published 1866
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.22 — 320,609 ratings — published 2006
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 875,342 ratings — published 2005
The Sword of Kaigen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.43 — 99,187 ratings — published 2019
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,654,478 ratings — published 1965
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.07 — 626,297 ratings — published 2014
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as shortlist)
avg rating 3.99 — 893,020 ratings — published 1961
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,398,514 ratings — published 2022
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.34 — 646,840 ratings — published 2017
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.13 — 753,380 ratings — published 2016
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.28 — 430,832 ratings — published 1967
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,104,562 ratings — published 1932
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.32 — 681,268 ratings — published 2016
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.14 — 368,757 ratings — published 1989
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,881,144 ratings — published 1813
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,554,648 ratings — published 2020
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.28 — 341,457 ratings — published 2015
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,120,754 ratings — published 1967
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,013,404 ratings — published 2006
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.46 — 833,330 ratings — published 2022
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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avg rating 4.59 — 254,097 ratings — published 1985
Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 116,015 ratings — published 2017
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 957,226 ratings — published 2015
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 413,887 ratings — published 1995
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,892,568 ratings — published 1953
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.32 — 147,495 ratings — published 2023
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.14 — 497,460 ratings — published 2022
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.34 — 291,314 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 2,211,819 ratings — published 2015
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,058,024 ratings — published 2011
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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avg rating 4.66 — 690,568 ratings — published 2010
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.16 — 507,838 ratings — published 2018
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.17 — 603,277 ratings — published 1951
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,009,877 ratings — published 2014
“Never being on the shortlist of people’s attention may arouse a sensation of desolation but may, all together, be an expectant challenge to excel and exceed oneself, as it can inflame the will to extract unsuspected power from the inner self, never to give up and to hit the ground and run…ever since life may offer an astounding window of opportunity to assert oneself in a land of contention. ("Not on the shortlist" )”
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“When people have not learned to interpret the past, to read the present; and to imagine and empower the future, they are living a life without a punchline, clueless about the story they are embarked upon. ("Not on the shortlist" )”
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