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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,145,254 ratings — published 2015
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,366,839 ratings — published 2012
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,863,798 ratings — published 2021
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,344,896 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,466,348 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,811,476 ratings — published 1999
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.57 — 764,859 ratings — published 2016
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,008,760 ratings — published 2012
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,731,162 ratings — published 2013
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 23 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,172,119 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 22 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,640,986 ratings — published 2005
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.05 — 401,397 ratings — published 2012
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.99 — 384,392 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,777,087 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,092,756 ratings — published 2007
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,747,135 ratings — published 2019
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,535,824 ratings — published 2014
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,217,446 ratings — published 2019
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.15 — 726,959 ratings — published 2023
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,723,613 ratings — published 1996
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.23 — 459,647 ratings — published 2013
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,485,783 ratings — published 2020
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,160,636 ratings — published 2007
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,112,774 ratings — published 2020
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.97 — 862,903 ratings — published 2016
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,381,136 ratings — published 2015
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,674,820 ratings — published 2009
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.49 — 960,514 ratings — published 2006
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,093,986 ratings — published 2011
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.00 — 398,636 ratings — published 2019
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.40 — 403,374 ratings — published 2014
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.22 — 219,952 ratings — published 2013
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.10 — 992,111 ratings — published 2008
Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,688 ratings — published 2024
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.04 — 325,328 ratings — published 2022
It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.90 — 707,974 ratings — published 2021
A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,047,989 ratings — published 2021
Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.93 — 330,481 ratings — published 2023
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.06 — 647,633 ratings — published 2021
Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.88 — 443,446 ratings — published 2022
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.32 — 409,710 ratings — published 2016
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.28 — 134,910 ratings — published 2017
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.09 — 255,679 ratings — published 2016
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.63 — 1,210,093 ratings — published 2016
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.41 — 310,095 ratings — published 2015
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.04 — 186,162 ratings — published 2015
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.03 — 428,896 ratings — published 2015
Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.26 — 180,862 ratings — published 2014
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,771,316 ratings — published 1813
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.31 — 875,014 ratings — published 2010
“People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.”
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“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume)
NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom had a vice. He wrote about himself. Not only would he describe the events he saw, but his own small effect on events. This irritated critics. They spoke of ego trips and the unattractive dimensions of his narcissism. Such criticism did not hurt too much. He had already had a love affair with himself, and it used up a good deal of love. He was no longer so pleased with his presence. His daily reactions bored him. They were becoming like everyone else’s. His mind, he noticed, was beginning to spin its wheels, sometimes seeming to repeat itself for the sheer slavishness of supporting mediocre habits. If he was now wondering what name he ought to use for his piece about the fight, it was out of no excess of literary ego. More, indeed, from concern for the reader’s attention. It would hardly be congenial to follow a long piece of prose if the narrator appeared only as an abstraction: The Writer, The Traveler, The Interviewer. That is unhappy in much the way one would not wish to live with a woman for years and think of her as The Wife.
Nonetheless, Norman was certainly feeling modest on his return to New York and thought he might as well use his first name — everybody in the fight game did. Indeed, his head was so determinedly empty that the alternative was to do a piece without a name. Never had his wisdom appeared more invisible to him and that is a fair condition for acquiring an anonymous voice.”
― The Fight
NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom had a vice. He wrote about himself. Not only would he describe the events he saw, but his own small effect on events. This irritated critics. They spoke of ego trips and the unattractive dimensions of his narcissism. Such criticism did not hurt too much. He had already had a love affair with himself, and it used up a good deal of love. He was no longer so pleased with his presence. His daily reactions bored him. They were becoming like everyone else’s. His mind, he noticed, was beginning to spin its wheels, sometimes seeming to repeat itself for the sheer slavishness of supporting mediocre habits. If he was now wondering what name he ought to use for his piece about the fight, it was out of no excess of literary ego. More, indeed, from concern for the reader’s attention. It would hardly be congenial to follow a long piece of prose if the narrator appeared only as an abstraction: The Writer, The Traveler, The Interviewer. That is unhappy in much the way one would not wish to live with a woman for years and think of her as The Wife.
Nonetheless, Norman was certainly feeling modest on his return to New York and thought he might as well use his first name — everybody in the fight game did. Indeed, his head was so determinedly empty that the alternative was to do a piece without a name. Never had his wisdom appeared more invisible to him and that is a fair condition for acquiring an anonymous voice.”
― The Fight
