151 books
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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 — 407,853 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,087,692 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,446,373 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,381,262 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,498,350 ratings — published 1988
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,356,521 ratings — published 1942
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,709,577 ratings — published 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 541,674 ratings — published 1985
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 918,982 ratings — published 1878
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,173,671 ratings — published -700
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 312,612 ratings — published 1982
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 321,222 ratings — published 1997
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,052,388 ratings — published 1866
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 378,519 ratings — published 1880
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 407,603 ratings — published 2013
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 534,888 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 395,150 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 454,301 ratings — published 2011
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 861,581 ratings — published 1922
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,622 ratings — published -2000
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,408 ratings — published 1615
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 298,076 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 — 708,866 ratings — published 2001
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 361,291 ratings — published 1869
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 311,080 ratings — published 1994
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 411,162 ratings — published 1967
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 390,867 ratings — published 1989
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,740,180 ratings — published 2001
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 512,843 ratings — published 1928
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,007,603 ratings — published 1846
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,347,713 ratings — published 1956
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 391,691 ratings — published 1980
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 369,690 ratings — published 1856
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 837,337 ratings — published 1862
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,108 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,130,226 ratings — published 1947
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 140,307 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 180,282 ratings — published 2006
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 354,299 ratings — published 2007
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 502,587 ratings — published -800
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 227,725 ratings — published 2003
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,423,147 ratings — published 1943
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 539,200 ratings — published 2002
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,412,824 ratings — published 2005
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 604,452 ratings — published 2017
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 386,072 ratings — published 1925
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 331,873 ratings — published 1995
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 714,282 ratings — published 1987
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,883 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 — 146,283 ratings — published 2009










