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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 1746 times as english)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,669,659 ratings — published 1997
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1578 times as english)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,658,940 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1562 times as english)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,719,432 ratings — published 1945
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1481 times as english)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,940,657 ratings — published 1813
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 1372 times as english)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,613,044 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 1292 times as english)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,973,314 ratings — published 1999
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1174 times as english)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,065,069 ratings — published 1925
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 1165 times as english)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,295,537 ratings — published 2000
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1131 times as english)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,041,324 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 1104 times as english)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,190,336 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 1090 times as english)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,880,659 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 1078 times as english)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,734,467 ratings — published 2005
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 1050 times as english)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,957,885 ratings — published 1890
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 998 times as english)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,251,387 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 969 times as english)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,967,236 ratings — published 1818
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 911 times as english)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,970,790 ratings — published 1951
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 909 times as english)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,383,407 ratings — published 1847
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 874 times as english)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,567,793 ratings — published 1937
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 858 times as english)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,153,399 ratings — published 2008
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 823 times as english)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,126,833 ratings — published 1932
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 821 times as english)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,276,145 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 749 times as english)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,514,488 ratings — published 1985
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 749 times as english)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,827,765 ratings — published 2012
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 690 times as english)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,595,148 ratings — published 2020
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 677 times as english)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,305,013 ratings — published 2017
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 671 times as english)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,937,068 ratings — published 1963
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 667 times as english)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,078,226 ratings — published 1601
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 662 times as english)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,273,351 ratings — published 2009
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 661 times as english)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,952,147 ratings — published 2018
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 656 times as english)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,868,612 ratings — published 1590
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 646 times as english)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,045,791 ratings — published 1999
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as english)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,621,301 ratings — published 2003
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as english)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,044,930 ratings — published 1623
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 618 times as english)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,822,523 ratings — published 2010
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 609 times as english)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,055,609 ratings — published 1979
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 598 times as english)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,909,823 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 598 times as english)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,161,412 ratings — published 2016
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 595 times as english)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,210,929 ratings — published 1954
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 591 times as english)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,786,816 ratings — published 1996
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as english)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,519,095 ratings — published 1897
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 584 times as english)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,322,499 ratings — published 1811
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 584 times as english)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,107,691 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 561 times as english)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,689,010 ratings — published 1988
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 553 times as english)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,009,431 ratings — published 1815
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 530 times as english)
avg rating 3.80 — 888,114 ratings — published 1861
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 528 times as english)
avg rating 4.09 — 955,648 ratings — published 1843
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 527 times as english)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,352,559 ratings — published 1952
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
by (shelved 522 times as english)
avg rating 4.41 — 911,451 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 521 times as english)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,945,613 ratings — published 2005
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 498 times as english)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,762,672 ratings — published 2016
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don't want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets. We dress it in fancy clothes and tell it to behave, and it comes home with its underwear on its head and wearing someone else's socks. As English grows, it lives its own life, and this is right and healthy. Sometimes English does exactly what we think it should; sometimes it goes places we don't like and thrives there in spite of all our worrying. We can tell it to clean itself up and act more like Latin; we can throw tantrums and start learning French instead. But we will never really be the boss of it. And that's why it flourishes.”
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
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