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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,010,042 ratings — published 1951
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,526,881 ratings — published 1969
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,118,012 ratings — published 1960
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,312,813 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,558,112 ratings — published 1985
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 385,431 ratings — published 1989
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,122,016 ratings — published 1992
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,987,378 ratings — published 1963
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.96 — 578,229 ratings — published 2001
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 904,387 ratings — published 1961
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,787,157 ratings — published 2001
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,749,762 ratings — published 1988
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,313,275 ratings — published 1954
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 568,285 ratings — published 1984
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,905 ratings — published 1987
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,071,624 ratings — published 1999
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,949,011 ratings — published 1937
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 795,544 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,523,407 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,803,402 ratings — published 1945
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.31 — 347,163 ratings — published 1982
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,669 ratings — published 1922
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 764,262 ratings — published 1938
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,138,038 ratings — published 1925
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,086,925 ratings — published 2006
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 672,715 ratings — published 2002
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,068,243 ratings — published 2014
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,374,612 ratings — published 1952
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 978,016 ratings — published 1955
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,757,622 ratings — published 1949
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 812,775 ratings — published 1998
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,027,011 ratings — published 1939
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 792,016 ratings — published 1962
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,902,173 ratings — published 1993
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 302,091 ratings — published 1965
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 322,828 ratings — published 1970
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.95 — 246,217 ratings — published 1957
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,707,149 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 — 597,887 ratings — published 1969
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 381,698 ratings — published 1991
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.46 — 721,950 ratings — published 1952
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,048 ratings — published 1958
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.69 — 411,985 ratings — published 1957
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 242,609 ratings — published 1978
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 562,523 ratings — published 1985
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,025 ratings — published 1957
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,165,171 ratings — published 2023
The Enchanted April (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,366 ratings — published 1922
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 299,802 ratings — published 1956
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,082,649 ratings — published 2013