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Contemporary Classic Books
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,984,740 ratings — published 1951
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,517,509 ratings — published 1969
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,070,233 ratings — published 1960
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,292,141 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,530,655 ratings — published 1985
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 379,788 ratings — published 1989
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,101,876 ratings — published 1992
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,954,531 ratings — published 1963
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.96 — 575,126 ratings — published 2001
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 900,803 ratings — published 1961
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,780,086 ratings — published 2001
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,710,403 ratings — published 1988
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,289,997 ratings — published 1954
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 562,577 ratings — published 1984
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,936 ratings — published 1987
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,923,674 ratings — published 1937
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 792,514 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,494,305 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,755,237 ratings — published 1945
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.31 — 340,846 ratings — published 1982
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,055,734 ratings — published 1999
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.76 — 140,949 ratings — published 1922
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 754,784 ratings — published 1938
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,092,204 ratings — published 1925
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,076,847 ratings — published 2006
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 670,917 ratings — published 2002
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,051,287 ratings — published 2014
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,360,185 ratings — published 1952
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 971,354 ratings — published 1955
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,693,696 ratings — published 1949
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 808,199 ratings — published 1998
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,019,367 ratings — published 1939
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 787,827 ratings — published 1962
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,882,646 ratings — published 1993
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 288,989 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 316,938 ratings — published 1970
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.95 — 244,855 ratings — published 1957
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,689,471 ratings — published 1965
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 594,737 ratings — published 1969
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 377,602 ratings — published 1991
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.45 — 697,641 ratings — published 1952
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,390 ratings — published 1958
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.69 — 411,007 ratings — published 1957
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 241,841 ratings — published 1978
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 558,966 ratings — published 1985
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 457,362 ratings — published 1957
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,138,232 ratings — published 2023
The Enchanted April (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 45,526 ratings — published 1922
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 286,687 ratings — published 1956
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,073,922 ratings — published 2013