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The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,330,603 ratings — published 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,156,520 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,889,063 ratings — published 1997
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.78 — 444,451 ratings — published 1993
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.79 — 181,875 ratings — published 2000
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,030,336 ratings — published 1951
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.78 — 514,090 ratings — published 1926
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.62 — 107,611 ratings — published 1985
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.99 — 125,089 ratings — published 1940
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,493,106 ratings — published 2002
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,639,898 ratings — published 2003
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.51 — 253,099 ratings — published 2016
Mary (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,540 ratings — published 1926
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.14 — 329,161 ratings — published 1970
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,086,334 ratings — published 1979
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,881,347 ratings — published 2003
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,706 ratings — published 1997
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.65 — 28,778 ratings — published 1988
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.76 — 116,216 ratings — published 1984
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,353 ratings — published 2018
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,354,243 ratings — published 1811
This Side of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.63 — 82,353 ratings — published 1920
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.65 — 169,007 ratings — published 1916
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.88 — 264,134 ratings — published 2004
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,628,682 ratings — published 2003
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.70 — 49,591 ratings — published 2006
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.88 — 131,620 ratings — published 2016
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,552 ratings — published 2016
The Natural (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.61 — 12,829 ratings — published 1952
Fourth of July Creek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,506 ratings — published 2014
Player Piano (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.91 — 66,475 ratings — published 1952
Speedboat (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,203 ratings — published 1976
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,395 ratings — published 1992
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.02 — 183,843 ratings — published 2012
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.94 — 174,522 ratings — published 1939
Goodbye, Columbus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,496 ratings — published 1959
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.99 — 897,444 ratings — published 1974
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,375,751 ratings — published 2001
Everything is Illuminated (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.89 — 185,629 ratings — published 2002
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,409 ratings — published 1948
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,143,125 ratings — published 1992
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,713 ratings — published 1984
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.18 — 667,147 ratings — published 1996
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,544,278 ratings — published 2005
Bee Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.57 — 25,651 ratings — published 2000
The Voyage Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.75 — 12,727 ratings — published 1915
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as first-novels)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,615,104 ratings — published 2022
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,949 ratings — published 2019
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.86 — 516,261 ratings — published 2018
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as first-novels)
avg rating 3.74 — 187,168 ratings — published 2017
