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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as character)
avg rating 4.16 — 843,215 ratings — published 1989
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as character)
avg rating 4.17 — 615,139 ratings — published 1951
The Road to Character (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as character)
avg rating 3.65 — 27,008 ratings — published 2015
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as character)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,503,195 ratings — published 1985
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as character)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,626,779 ratings — published 1937
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as character)
avg rating 3.90 — 680,929 ratings — published 1982
Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)
by (shelved 28 times as character)
avg rating 4.27 — 227,365 ratings — published 1997
Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles, #10)
by (shelved 27 times as character)
avg rating 3.74 — 26,541 ratings — published 2003
Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as character)
avg rating 3.76 — 88,013 ratings — published 1995
Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles, #9)
by (shelved 27 times as character)
avg rating 3.90 — 35,420 ratings — published 2002
The Waste Lands (Dark Tower, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as character)
avg rating 4.26 — 255,626 ratings — published 1991
Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as character)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,510 ratings — published 1993
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as character)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,088,381 ratings — published 1955
Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as character)
avg rating 4.19 — 101,584 ratings — published 1982
The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as character)
avg rating 4.24 — 300,270 ratings — published 1987
The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as character)
avg rating 4.12 — 223,094 ratings — published 1985
The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as character)
avg rating 3.93 — 165,476 ratings — published 1988
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as character)
avg rating 4.12 — 277,758 ratings — published 1986
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
by (shelved 24 times as character)
avg rating 4.19 — 120,640 ratings — published 2009
The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
by (shelved 24 times as character)
avg rating 3.77 — 93,847 ratings — published 1992
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as character)
avg rating 4.13 — 183,869 ratings — published 2001
61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
by (shelved 24 times as character)
avg rating 4.13 — 104,370 ratings — published 2010
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
by (shelved 23 times as character)
avg rating 4.44 — 114,738 ratings — published 2009
Prelude to Foundation (Foundation, #6)
by (shelved 23 times as character)
avg rating 4.17 — 99,164 ratings — published 1988
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as character)
avg rating 4.08 — 360,694 ratings — published 1997
Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #5)
by (shelved 23 times as character)
avg rating 4.12 — 77,805 ratings — published 1996
The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as character)
avg rating 4.27 — 366,861 ratings — published 1990
Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)
by (shelved 23 times as character)
avg rating 4.22 — 106,798 ratings — published 2007
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as character)
avg rating 4.04 — 231,272 ratings — published 2005
Flirt (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #18)
by (shelved 22 times as character)
avg rating 3.76 — 36,880 ratings — published 2009
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as character)
avg rating 4.08 — 171,100 ratings — published 1998
Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #16)
by (shelved 22 times as character)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,458 ratings — published 2008
Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #19)
by (shelved 22 times as character)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,963 ratings — published 2010
Micah (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #13)
by (shelved 22 times as character)
avg rating 3.68 — 48,238 ratings — published 2006
Song of Susannah (Dark Tower, #6)
by (shelved 22 times as character)
avg rating 4.00 — 181,250 ratings — published 2004
Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.13 — 127,897 ratings — published 2000
The Dark Tower (Dark Tower, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.29 — 195,356 ratings — published 2004
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,178,892 ratings — published 1954
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.39 — 132,070 ratings — published 2006
Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.36 — 81,076 ratings — published 2005
The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.29 — 269,895 ratings — published 1992
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.43 — 119,875 ratings — published 2008
Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,660 ratings — published 2002
Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.15 — 108,064 ratings — published 2003
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.02 — 669,909 ratings — published 1976
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.12 — 146,789 ratings — published 1999
Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.32 — 182,380 ratings — published 1999
Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #12)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 3.82 — 52,287 ratings — published 2004
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,353,377 ratings — published 1885
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as character)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,798,911 ratings — published 1997
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
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