167 books
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World Lit Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 415,165 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,113,309 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,515,000 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,449,493 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,603,029 ratings — published 1988
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,750,363 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,422,984 ratings — published 1942
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 549,657 ratings — published 1985
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,202,653 ratings — published -800
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 938,466 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,094,888 ratings — published 1866
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 548,598 ratings — published 1984
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 415,319 ratings — published 2013
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 323,483 ratings — published 1982
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 391,400 ratings — published 1880
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 328,118 ratings — published 1997
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,984 ratings — published -2000
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,280 ratings — published 1615
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 475,964 ratings — published 2011
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 407,890 ratings — published 2016
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,040 ratings — published 1869
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 884,021 ratings — published 1922
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 303,340 ratings — published 1759
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 726,060 ratings — published 2001
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 425,877 ratings — published 1967
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 316,775 ratings — published 1994
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,759,889 ratings — published 2001
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,033,099 ratings — published 1844
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 522,948 ratings — published 1928
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 396,852 ratings — published 1989
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,371,895 ratings — published 1956
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 847,217 ratings — published 1862
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 397,573 ratings — published 1980
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 377,649 ratings — published 1856
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,852 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,217,988 ratings — published 1947
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 144,599 ratings — published 2003
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 513,592 ratings — published -800
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 185,089 ratings — published 2006
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 395,396 ratings — published 2007
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 400,133 ratings — published 1925
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,503,252 ratings — published 1943
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,463,504 ratings — published 2005
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 553,356 ratings — published 2002
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 232,085 ratings — published 2003
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 635,990 ratings — published 2017
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 342,179 ratings — published 1995
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,489 ratings — published 1981
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 22 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 160,391 ratings — published 2009
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 228,998 ratings — published 1886









