49 books
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2 voters
World Lit Books
Showing 1-50 of 8,992
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 407,841 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,087,647 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,446,258 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,381,164 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,498,189 ratings — published 1988
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,709,504 ratings — published 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 541,659 ratings — published 1985
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,356,431 ratings — published 1942
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 918,961 ratings — published 1878
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,173,636 ratings — published -700
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 312,591 ratings — published 1982
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 321,210 ratings — published 1997
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,052,344 ratings — published 1866
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 378,502 ratings — published 1880
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 407,590 ratings — published 2013
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 534,875 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 395,129 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 454,269 ratings — published 2011
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 861,555 ratings — published 1922
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,617 ratings — published -2000
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,398 ratings — published 1615
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 298,040 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 — 708,847 ratings — published 2001
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 361,281 ratings — published 1869
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 311,074 ratings — published 1994
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 411,144 ratings — published 1967
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 390,861 ratings — published 1989
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,740,149 ratings — published 2001
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 512,831 ratings — published 1928
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,007,576 ratings — published 1846
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,347,682 ratings — published 1956
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 391,685 ratings — published 1980
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 369,675 ratings — published 1856
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 837,326 ratings — published 1862
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,106 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,130,099 ratings — published 1947
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 140,300 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 180,277 ratings — published 2006
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 354,246 ratings — published 2007
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 502,575 ratings — published -800
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 227,718 ratings — published 2003
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,423,025 ratings — published 1943
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 539,173 ratings — published 2002
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,412,747 ratings — published 2005
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 604,397 ratings — published 2017
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 386,059 ratings — published 1925
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 331,865 ratings — published 1995
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 714,244 ratings — published 1987
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,878 ratings — published 1981
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 22 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 146,260 ratings — published 2009










