243 books
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378 voters
Century Books
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Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as century)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,850,313 ratings — published 1813
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as century)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,017,315 ratings — published 1859
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as century)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,917,960 ratings — published 1818
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as century)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,156,221 ratings — published 1847
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as century)
avg rating 3.80 — 878,722 ratings — published 1861
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as century)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,342,485 ratings — published 1847
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as century)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,409 ratings — published 1886
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as century)
avg rating 4.05 — 991,771 ratings — published 1815
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as century)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,304,944 ratings — published 1811
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as century)
avg rating 4.09 — 379,086 ratings — published 2001
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as century)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,936,164 ratings — published 1960
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as century)
avg rating 4.33 — 277,806 ratings — published 2007
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as century)
avg rating 4.00 — 763,988 ratings — published 2003
Hearts in Atlantis (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as century)
avg rating 3.87 — 103,388 ratings — published 1999
Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 18 times as century)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,130 ratings — published 1967
Timeline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as century)
avg rating 3.87 — 217,823 ratings — published 1999
Drood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as century)
avg rating 3.55 — 17,701 ratings — published 2009
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as century)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,725 ratings — published 2003
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as century)
avg rating 3.84 — 303,997 ratings — published 1891
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as century)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,096,534 ratings — published 1866
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as century)
avg rating 4.18 — 337,786 ratings — published 1968
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as century)
avg rating 3.90 — 69,632 ratings — published 1998
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as century)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,950 ratings — published 2010
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,917,871 ratings — published 1951
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as century)
avg rating 4.15 — 784,320 ratings — published 1817
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as century)
avg rating 3.86 — 381,972 ratings — published 1814
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as century)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,173 ratings — published 1849
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as century)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,249 ratings — published 2009
Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,074 ratings — published
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as century)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,905,012 ratings — published 1890
Obama's Wars (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 14 times as century)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,171 ratings — published 2011
Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as century)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,303 ratings — published 2009
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as century)
avg rating 3.59 — 300,273 ratings — published 1726
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as century)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,479,225 ratings — published 1868
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as century)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,490,666 ratings — published 1897
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as century)
avg rating 3.88 — 430,128 ratings — published 1838
Ford County (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as century)
avg rating 3.73 — 29,076 ratings — published 2008
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as century)
avg rating 3.78 — 44,177 ratings — published 1992
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as century)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,964,745 ratings — published 1925
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as century)
avg rating 4.05 — 260,481 ratings — published 1850
Alas, Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as century)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,738 ratings — published 1959
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as century)
avg rating 3.78 — 41,876 ratings — published 1900
The Chrysalids (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as century)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,528 ratings — published 1955
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as century)
avg rating 4.35 — 836,390 ratings — published 1989
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as century)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,528,403 ratings — published 1948
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as century)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,341,358 ratings — published 1885
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as century)
avg rating 4.39 — 392,056 ratings — published 1880
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as century)
avg rating 3.52 — 2,400 ratings — published 2002
Ring of Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as century)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,597 ratings — published 2006
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as century)
avg rating 4.01 — 166,968 ratings — published 1859
“To jump over centuries
In one step is impossible.
Jump too high or far,
You’ll be way too late.”
― Circling: 1978-1987
In one step is impossible.
Jump too high or far,
You’ll be way too late.”
― Circling: 1978-1987
“At the high rate man-made satellites are being launched, I suspect there will be little biological life alive on Earth within a century.”
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