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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 — 3,960,390 ratings — published 1951
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,507,969 ratings — published 1969
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,019,480 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,502,029 ratings — published 1985
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,273,029 ratings — published 1963
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,082,227 ratings — published 1992
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 374,200 ratings — published 1989
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,923,665 ratings — published 1963
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.95 — 572,095 ratings — published 2001
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 896,998 ratings — published 1961
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,772,768 ratings — published 2001
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,672,905 ratings — published 1988
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,265,190 ratings — published 1954
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 557,555 ratings — published 1984
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,899,569 ratings — published 1937
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 789,401 ratings — published 1962
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,696,292 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 503,608 ratings — published 1987
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 334,257 ratings — published 1982
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,039,527 ratings — published 1999
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,346,963 ratings — published 1952
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.76 — 140,143 ratings — published 1922
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 745,719 ratings — published 1938
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,469,187 ratings — published 1942
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,044,041 ratings — published 1925
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,066,192 ratings — published 2006
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 669,011 ratings — published 2002
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,031,379 ratings — published 2014
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 965,172 ratings — published 1955
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,632,955 ratings — published 1948
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 803,833 ratings — published 1998
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,012,204 ratings — published 1939
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 783,464 ratings — published 1962
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,861,245 ratings — published 1993
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 276,511 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 312,727 ratings — published 1970
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.96 — 243,526 ratings — published 1957
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,672,972 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 — 591,440 ratings — published 1969
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 373,467 ratings — published 1991
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.45 — 676,842 ratings — published 1952
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 420,605 ratings — published 1958
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.69 — 409,998 ratings — published 1957
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 241,099 ratings — published 1978
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 555,061 ratings — published 1985
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 454,992 ratings — published 1957
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,110,612 ratings — published 2023
The Enchanted April (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 44,532 ratings — published 1922
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 276,087 ratings — published 1956
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,064,874 ratings — published 2013
