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East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.45 — 675,848 ratings — published 1952
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.58 — 253,309 ratings — published 2023
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,369,825 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.37 — 911,900 ratings — published 1946
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.20 — 526,411 ratings — published 2020
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.39 — 402,314 ratings — published 1880
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,298,692 ratings — published 2011
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.28 — 309,526 ratings — published 1989
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 604,138 ratings — published 2011
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.22 — 325,536 ratings — published 2006
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,635,863 ratings — published 2021
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.27 — 885,003 ratings — published 2014
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.28 — 367,308 ratings — published 180
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,081,141 ratings — published 1992
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,121,758 ratings — published 1866
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,922,732 ratings — published 2018
Circe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,407,366 ratings — published 2018
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 633,350 ratings — published 2014
Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 896,786 ratings — published 1961
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 887,122 ratings — published 2005
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,629,654 ratings — published 1948
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,420,617 ratings — published 2022
Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,153 ratings — published 2017
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.34 — 660,591 ratings — published 2017
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.13 — 771,196 ratings — published 2016
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,129,278 ratings — published 1967
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,672,043 ratings — published 1965
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.28 — 436,369 ratings — published 1967
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,119,351 ratings — published 1932
The Sword of Kaigen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.43 — 103,421 ratings — published 2019
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.59 — 263,317 ratings — published 1985
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.31 — 688,583 ratings — published 2016
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 345,702 ratings — published 2015
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,920,321 ratings — published 1813
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.19 — 422,215 ratings — published 1995
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,578,325 ratings — published 2020
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,034,547 ratings — published 2006
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 855,561 ratings — published 2022
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 373,909 ratings — published 1989
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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avg rating 4.66 — 701,737 ratings — published 2010
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.31 — 158,350 ratings — published 2023
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 — 297,270 ratings — published 2014
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,089,979 ratings — published 2011
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 517,761 ratings — published 2006
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 973,242 ratings — published 2015
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.30 — 351,729 ratings — published 2006
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.31 — 330,262 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,921,982 ratings — published 1963
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.24 — 821,386 ratings — published 1966
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as shortlist)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,264,773 ratings — published 2015
“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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