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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 710 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,178,034 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 675 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,043,985 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 660 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,159,525 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 617 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,815,527 ratings — published 1949
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 534 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,430,897 ratings — published 1847
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 528 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,852,903 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,031,894 ratings — published 1951
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,030,805 ratings — published 1818
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 471 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,314,245 ratings — published 1847
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 466 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,972,277 ratings — published 1937
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,334,938 ratings — published 1954
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 404 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,094,716 ratings — published 1846
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,027,864 ratings — published 1890
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,038,242 ratings — published 1859
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 384 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,357,258 ratings — published 1885
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 383 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,172,768 ratings — published 1866
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,016,639 ratings — published 1963
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,166,906 ratings — published 1932
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,029,568 ratings — published 1815
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 351 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,556,616 ratings — published 1868
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 899,084 ratings — published 1861
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,355,913 ratings — published 1811
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,568,013 ratings — published 1897
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 974,635 ratings — published 1878
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.58 — 638,811 ratings — published 1851
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 315 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,034,579 ratings — published 1939
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.44 — 945,692 ratings — published 1850
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 815,640 ratings — published 1817
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,387,087 ratings — published 1952
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 967,329 ratings — published 1843
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,050,200 ratings — published 1876
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 908,026 ratings — published 1961
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,535,790 ratings — published 1969
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,299,381 ratings — published -800
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 380,515 ratings — published 1868
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,901,060 ratings — published 1590
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 420,765 ratings — published 1879
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,661,713 ratings — published 1937
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.43 — 578,872 ratings — published 1899
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 869,190 ratings — published 1862
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 317,036 ratings — published 1605
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,580,742 ratings — published 1915
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 763,070 ratings — published 1952
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 985,245 ratings — published 1955
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,219 ratings — published 1882
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,550,483 ratings — published 1942
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 475,202 ratings — published 1817
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 392,145 ratings — published 1814
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 439,970 ratings — published 1838
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as classic-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 267,744 ratings — published 1850
“Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.”
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“The soul, you see, is a shy and retiring thing. It lurks in dark places and dislikes sunlight. And so, if you do not keep the skylight open at all times, the soul will rot. It easily decays, like a fresh sea urchin.”
― The Frolic of the Beasts
― The Frolic of the Beasts
