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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as us)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,098,095 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as us)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,987,737 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as us)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,076,458 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as us)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,926,964 ratings — published 1937
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as us)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,361,992 ratings — published 1952
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as us)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,441 ratings — published 1963
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as us)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,294,727 ratings — published 1963
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as us)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,104,297 ratings — published 1992
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as us)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,020,267 ratings — published 1939
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as us)
avg rating 4.09 — 750,609 ratings — published 1966
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as us)
avg rating 3.61 — 457,674 ratings — published 1957
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as us)
avg rating 3.57 — 631,312 ratings — published 1851
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as us)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,350,391 ratings — published 1885
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as us)
avg rating 4.06 — 456,631 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as us)
avg rating 4.28 — 769,150 ratings — published 1982
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as us)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,518,457 ratings — published 1969
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as us)
avg rating 4.45 — 700,445 ratings — published 1952
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as us)
avg rating 4.34 — 288,234 ratings — published 1956
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as us)
avg rating 4.27 — 993,329 ratings — published 2015
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as us)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,074,995 ratings — published 2013
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as us)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,206,985 ratings — published 2008
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as us)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,040,247 ratings — published 1876
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 39 times as us)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,514 ratings — published 1987
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as us)
avg rating 3.87 — 972,071 ratings — published 1955
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as us)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,345,288 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as us)
avg rating 4.12 — 879,035 ratings — published 2020
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as us)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,762,187 ratings — published 2018
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as us)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,535,258 ratings — published 2012
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as us)
avg rating 4.04 — 671,104 ratings — published 2002
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as us)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,141,495 ratings — published 2023
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as us)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,526,508 ratings — published 1868
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as us)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,363,097 ratings — published 2017
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as us)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,542 ratings — published 1980
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as us)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,446,126 ratings — published 2022
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as us)
avg rating 3.59 — 608,808 ratings — published 2018
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as us)
avg rating 4.20 — 792,808 ratings — published 1962
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as us)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,298,836 ratings — published 2009
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as us)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,951,003 ratings — published 2018
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as us)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,844,466 ratings — published 2010
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as us)
avg rating 3.86 — 200,473 ratings — published 1929
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as us)
avg rating 4.14 — 317,600 ratings — published 1970
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as us)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,234,155 ratings — published 2018
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as us)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,057,835 ratings — published 1999
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as us)
avg rating 3.78 — 507,698 ratings — published 1926
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as us)
avg rating 3.44 — 937,860 ratings — published 1850
“It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
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“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought and often died for that dream during the Second World War, when there was no peace.
But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts us absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many lifeless bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.”
― A Man Without a Country
But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts us absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many lifeless bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.”
― A Man Without a Country
