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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,723,831 ratings — published 1949
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,093,269 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,543,889 ratings — published 1985
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,996,886 ratings — published 1951
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,302,033 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,114,400 ratings — published 1925
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,966,691 ratings — published 2005
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,595,386 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,521,869 ratings — published 1969
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,970,014 ratings — published 1963
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,770,103 ratings — published 1945
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,301,341 ratings — published 1954
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 902,492 ratings — published 1961
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,111,226 ratings — published 1992
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,143,455 ratings — published 1967
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,081,493 ratings — published 2006
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,143,607 ratings — published 1932
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 906,095 ratings — published 2005
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,729,123 ratings — published 1988
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,892,258 ratings — published 1993
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 974,377 ratings — published 1955
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,935,933 ratings — published 1937
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,510,562 ratings — published 1942
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,679,768 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,757,358 ratings — published 1997
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,063,652 ratings — published 1999
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,899 ratings — published 1962
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 789,873 ratings — published 1962
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.96 — 576,579 ratings — published 2001
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,783,511 ratings — published 2001
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,140,812 ratings — published 1997
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,629,222 ratings — published 2003
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,366,938 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 511,314 ratings — published 1987
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,534,670 ratings — published 1915
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 759,031 ratings — published 1938
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 565,300 ratings — published 1984
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 560,600 ratings — published 1985
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,557 ratings — published 1982
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 836,773 ratings — published 1966
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.45 — 708,433 ratings — published 1952
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,607,461 ratings — published 1937
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 382,476 ratings — published 1989
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,022,992 ratings — published 1939
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,463 ratings — published 1958
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 581,211 ratings — published 1985
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 752,427 ratings — published 1966
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.27 — 999,605 ratings — published 2015
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 292,823 ratings — published 1956
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as contemporary-classics)
avg rating 4.18 — 661,706 ratings — published 1996
