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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,614,005 ratings — published 1948
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as anticipation)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,115,212 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as anticipation)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,913,684 ratings — published 1953
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,095,572 ratings — published 2008
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,492,789 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,678,933 ratings — published 1945
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,798,914 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,245,953 ratings — published 2009
Ravage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 5,718 ratings — published 1943
La Nuit des temps (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 17,975 ratings — published 1968
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,062,763 ratings — published 2006
Les Furtifs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,549 ratings — published 2019
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.07 — 631,503 ratings — published 2014
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,333,065 ratings — published 2011
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.20 — 443,039 ratings — published 2019
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.23 — 283,953 ratings — published 2012
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 883,881 ratings — published 2005
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,434,403 ratings — published 2011
Le Grand Secret (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,546 ratings — published 1973
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,572,013 ratings — published 2020
Dust (Silo, #3)
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avg rating 4.23 — 143,654 ratings — published 2013
Shift (Silo, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.13 — 160,490 ratings — published 2013
The Running Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 174,720 ratings — published 1982
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 818,797 ratings — published 1966
The Time Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 573,401 ratings — published 1895
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,854,875 ratings — published 1993
The Ballad of Falling Dragons (Moonfall, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.52 — 343 ratings — published 2026
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 435,843 ratings — published 2017
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,749,241 ratings — published 2023
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as anticipation)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,754 ratings — published 1992
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as anticipation)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,244,264 ratings — published 2020
Transparence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anticipation)
avg rating 3.17 — 425 ratings — published 2019
Les Disparus du Clairdelune (La Passe-Miroir, #2)
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avg rating 4.43 — 85,101 ratings — published 2015
Eyland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anticipation)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,445 ratings — published 2016
Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.03 — 77,848 ratings — published 2002
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (ebook)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,270 ratings — published 2011
Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)
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avg rating 4.06 — 63,177 ratings — published 2023
Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices, #3)
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avg rating 4.32 — 127,667 ratings — published 2018
Snow Day! (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 566 ratings — published 2007
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 280,766 ratings — published 1869
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,639,577 ratings — published 2012
Niourk (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 541 ratings — published 1957
The World Inside (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 3,217 ratings — published 1971
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 156,892 ratings — published 1954
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
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avg rating 3.60 — 1,153,991 ratings — published 2013
Doors of Stone (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #3)
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avg rating 3.54 — 5,666 ratings — published
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 781,972 ratings — published 1962
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.30 — 7,015 ratings — published 1888
Days (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 317 ratings — published 1997
The House of Boleyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anticipation)
avg rating 4.18 — 119 ratings — published
“What’s behind the door or lurking at the top of the stairs is never as frightening as the door or the staircase itself.”
― Danse Macabre
― Danse Macabre
“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
