100 books
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82 voters
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Showing 1-50 of 100,000
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as unread)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,743,722 ratings — published 1813
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as unread)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,013,389 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as unread)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,378,073 ratings — published 1949
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as unread)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,301,124 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as unread)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,851,468 ratings — published 1818
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as unread)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,846,292 ratings — published 1890
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as unread)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,417,866 ratings — published 1937
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as unread)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,457,297 ratings — published 1897
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 147 times as unread)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,028,687 ratings — published 1955
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as unread)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,845,714 ratings — published 1925
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as unread)
avg rating 4.05 — 972,667 ratings — published 1815
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 140 times as unread)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,115,174 ratings — published 1954
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 139 times as unread)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,111,531 ratings — published 1954
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as unread)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,433,573 ratings — published 1868
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 134 times as unread)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,608,690 ratings — published 1965
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as unread)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,062,011 ratings — published 1866
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as unread)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,179,524 ratings — published -700
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as unread)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,809,701 ratings — published 1960
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as unread)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,713,456 ratings — published 1996
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as unread)
avg rating 3.56 — 611,799 ratings — published 1851
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as unread)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,387,989 ratings — published 1985
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 126 times as unread)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,850,363 ratings — published 2005
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as unread)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,006,985 ratings — published 1859
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as unread)
avg rating 4.10 — 922,773 ratings — published 1878
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as unread)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,056,709 ratings — published 1932
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as unread)
avg rating 4.17 — 362,888 ratings — published 1869
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as unread)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,286,060 ratings — published 1811
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as unread)
avg rating 3.99 — 882,610 ratings — published 1961
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as unread)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,943,459 ratings — published 2011
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as unread)
avg rating 3.80 — 868,285 ratings — published 1861
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as unread)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,137,302 ratings — published 2015
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as unread)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,460,382 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 109 times as unread)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,150,629 ratings — published 2000
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as unread)
avg rating 4.03 — 332,128 ratings — published 1977
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as unread)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,004,339 ratings — published 1992
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as unread)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,281,865 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as unread)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,860,361 ratings — published 1951
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as unread)
avg rating 4.28 — 905,930 ratings — published 2015
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 106 times as unread)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,783,077 ratings — published 1999
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as unread)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,325,795 ratings — published 2018
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 104 times as unread)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,440,621 ratings — published 1998
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as unread)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,793,813 ratings — published 1953
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as unread)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,093,154 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 103 times as unread)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,075,381 ratings — published 2007
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as unread)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,480,149 ratings — published 1945
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 100 times as unread)
avg rating 4.17 — 786,940 ratings — published 2005
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as unread)
avg rating 4.23 — 220,629 ratings — published 1812
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as unread)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,002,550 ratings — published 2017
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 99 times as unread)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,624,796 ratings — published 2005
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as unread)
avg rating 3.93 — 504,977 ratings — published -800
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