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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,030,529 ratings — published 1951
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,535,205 ratings — published 1969
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,156,908 ratings — published 1960
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 390,683 ratings — published 1989
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,330,769 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,581,923 ratings — published 1985
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,143,343 ratings — published 1992
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,014,867 ratings — published 1963
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.96 — 581,118 ratings — published 2001
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 907,771 ratings — published 1961
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,792,708 ratings — published 2001
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,780,871 ratings — published 1988
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,333,573 ratings — published 1954
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 572,984 ratings — published 1984
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,830 ratings — published 1987
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,084,124 ratings — published 1999
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,970,887 ratings — published 1937
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 798,460 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,548,767 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,849,806 ratings — published 1945
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.31 — 352,202 ratings — published 1982
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.76 — 142,309 ratings — published 1922
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 777,229 ratings — published 1938
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,175,590 ratings — published 1925
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,097,381 ratings — published 2006
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 674,512 ratings — published 2002
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,082,303 ratings — published 2014
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,386,294 ratings — published 1952
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 984,798 ratings — published 1955
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,811,773 ratings — published 1949
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 816,958 ratings — published 1998
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,034,052 ratings — published 1939
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 795,889 ratings — published 1962
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,917,252 ratings — published 1993
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 313,784 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 329,215 ratings — published 1970
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.95 — 247,333 ratings — published 1957
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,723,162 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 — 600,976 ratings — published 1969
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 385,326 ratings — published 1991
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.46 — 759,777 ratings — published 1952
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,692 ratings — published 1958
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.69 — 413,065 ratings — published 1957
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 243,321 ratings — published 1978
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 565,746 ratings — published 1985
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,191 ratings — published 1957
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,188,293 ratings — published 2023
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,109,855 ratings — published 2009
The Enchanted April (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.86 — 47,055 ratings — published 1922
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 310,700 ratings — published 1956