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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,569,008 ratings — published 1985
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 576,759 ratings — published 1899
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,136,174 ratings — published 1960
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,895 ratings — published 1962
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,019,758 ratings — published 1951
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,322,680 ratings — published 1954
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,782,370 ratings — published 1949
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,952 ratings — published 1961
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,530,758 ratings — published 1969
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,155,040 ratings — published 1925
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,694,071 ratings — published 1967
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,959,110 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,300,471 ratings — published 1847
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,423 ratings — published 1982
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,108 ratings — published 1952
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,272,654 ratings — published 1936
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,000,311 ratings — published 1963
Emma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,025,492 ratings — published 1815
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,154,870 ratings — published 1967
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.34 — 697,090 ratings — published 2017
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.14 — 387,805 ratings — published 1989
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 718,777 ratings — published 1995
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,534,962 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,618,351 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,568,165 ratings — published 1915
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.12 — 186,589 ratings — published 1993
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.04 — 673,577 ratings — published 2002
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.18 — 665,420 ratings — published 1996
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.11 — 970,492 ratings — published 1878
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.00 — 793,807 ratings — published 1962
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.61 — 477,559 ratings — published 1953
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.40 — 479,871 ratings — published 1969
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,380,069 ratings — published 1952
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.59 — 64,904 ratings — published 1960
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.74 — 146,055 ratings — published 1945
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.85 — 917,284 ratings — published 2005
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.45 — 166,797 ratings — published 1976
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,279,652 ratings — published 1997
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,789,913 ratings — published 2001
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.75 — 427,224 ratings — published 1958
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.89 — 342,069 ratings — published 1943
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.99 — 516,048 ratings — published 1987
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 3.92 — 488,405 ratings — published 1903
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 981,123 ratings — published 1955
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.15 — 450,065 ratings — published 1963
Great Expectations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 896,620 ratings — published 1861
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,035,692 ratings — published 1859
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,343,768 ratings — published 1811
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,824,576 ratings — published 1945
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as classic-contemporary)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,547,378 ratings — published 1868