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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,729 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,139,905 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,586,262 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,524,878 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,715,234 ratings — published 1988
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,800,731 ratings — published 2007
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,254,891 ratings — published -750
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,497,916 ratings — published 1942
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 559,365 ratings — published 1985
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 960,251 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,140,599 ratings — published 1866
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 341,677 ratings — published 1982
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 563,240 ratings — published 1984
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 409,105 ratings — published 1879
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 338,240 ratings — published 1997
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 423,600 ratings — published 2013
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,079 ratings — published -1800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,022 ratings — published 1605
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 423,512 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 503,249 ratings — published 2011
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,572 ratings — published 1868
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 443,246 ratings — published 1967
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 907,405 ratings — published 1922
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 308,576 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 — 745,360 ratings — published 2001
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 323,411 ratings — published 1994
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,780,944 ratings — published 2001
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,070,095 ratings — published 1846
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 536,407 ratings — published 1928
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 403,692 ratings — published 1989
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 386,796 ratings — published 1856
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 859,249 ratings — published 1862
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,396,304 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,303,263 ratings — published 1947
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 404,590 ratings — published 1980
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,843 ratings — published 1948
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,540 ratings — published 2003
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 530,144 ratings — published -750
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 441,401 ratings — published 2007
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 416,279 ratings — published 1925
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,648 ratings — published 2006
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 570,548 ratings — published 2002
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,578,340 ratings — published 1943
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 239,060 ratings — published 2003
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 677,602 ratings — published 2017
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,511,268 ratings — published 2005
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,833 ratings — published 1955
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 354,427 ratings — published 1995
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 762,728 ratings — published 1987
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,363 ratings — published 1999
