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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 — 3,914,659 ratings — published 1951
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,490,901 ratings — published 1969
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,929,424 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,449,570 ratings — published 1985
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,238,106 ratings — published 1963
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,045,021 ratings — published 1992
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 364,081 ratings — published 1989
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,865,414 ratings — published 1953
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.95 — 566,091 ratings — published 2001
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 889,912 ratings — published 1961
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,759,680 ratings — published 2001
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,220,254 ratings — published 1954
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 548,437 ratings — published 1984
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,601,927 ratings — published 1988
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 783,012 ratings — published 1962
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,599,435 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 494,361 ratings — published 1987
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 323,352 ratings — published 1982
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,013,551 ratings — published 1999
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,323,692 ratings — published 1952
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,856,507 ratings — published 1937
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.76 — 138,527 ratings — published 1922
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 728,459 ratings — published 1938
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,046,015 ratings — published 2006
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 665,203 ratings — published 2002
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,993,394 ratings — published 2014
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,519,672 ratings — published 1948
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 796,752 ratings — published 1998
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,422,254 ratings — published 1942
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,958,180 ratings — published 1925
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 999,856 ratings — published 1939
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 774,044 ratings — published 1962
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,825,446 ratings — published 1993
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.13 — 304,867 ratings — published 1970
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.96 — 241,119 ratings — published 1957
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,640,391 ratings — published 1965
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 365,680 ratings — published 1991
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 951,959 ratings — published 1955
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.44 — 649,133 ratings — published 1952
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.69 — 407,943 ratings — published 1957
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.11 — 239,481 ratings — published 1978
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 549,557 ratings — published 1985
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 450,432 ratings — published 1957
The Enchanted April (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,619 ratings — published 1922
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,047,828 ratings — published 2013
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.78 — 359,771 ratings — published 1925
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 466,593 ratings — published 1953
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 92,447 ratings — published 1970
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,116,663 ratings — published 1997
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-classic)
avg rating 4.02 — 653,546 ratings — published 1976
