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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as struggle)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,315,117 ratings — published 1952
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.28 — 930,529 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,738,469 ratings — published 2007
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 32,508 ratings — published 1961
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,634,662 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,860 ratings — published 2015
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.05 — 632,069 ratings — published 1999
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,364,379 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,198,503 ratings — published 1947
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.30 — 986,370 ratings — published 2021
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,196,232 ratings — published 2012
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,196,943 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,365,624 ratings — published 1956
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.03 — 995,531 ratings — published 1939
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,263 ratings — published 1968
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,544,118 ratings — published 2023
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,046 ratings — published 1958
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,224,886 ratings — published 1963
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,597,126 ratings — published 2023
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,723 ratings — published 1978
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,108,828 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.49 — 808,305 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.16 — 624,214 ratings — published 2012
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.46 — 166,020 ratings — published 1959
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,556 ratings — published 2014
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.36 — 687,645 ratings — published 2020
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,648 ratings — published 1971
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 268,667 ratings — published 2016
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,388 ratings — published 1987
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.36 — 142,118 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,012,758 ratings — published 2017
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,326,807 ratings — published 1847
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,751 ratings — published 2015
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.06 — 445,580 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,088 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,428,582 ratings — published 1985
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.39 — 362,086 ratings — published 2013
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 3.72 — 248,620 ratings — published 2008
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,730,951 ratings — published 2012
Still Alice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 360,709 ratings — published 2007
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,025,504 ratings — published 2007
Open (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.32 — 147,104 ratings — published 2009
Knightley Academy (Knightley Academy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,172 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.37 — 879,925 ratings — published 1946
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 844,468 ratings — published 1862
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.30 — 582,235 ratings — published 1969
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,111,739 ratings — published 1997
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 640,590 ratings — published 1952
Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as struggle)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,293,403 ratings — published 2022
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as struggle)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,199 ratings — published 1952
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
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“He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
