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Historic Books
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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 172 times as historic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,874,675 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as historic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,186,303 ratings — published 1947
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as historic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,152,441 ratings — published 1991
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as historic)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,793,490 ratings — published 1813
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as historic)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,977,752 ratings — published 2011
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as historic)
avg rating 4.35 — 829,568 ratings — published 1989
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as historic)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,971,495 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as historic)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,091,687 ratings — published 2015
The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as historic)
avg rating 3.80 — 685,445 ratings — published 2000
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as historic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,874,808 ratings — published 1960
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as historic)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,343,698 ratings — published 2018
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)
by (shelved 64 times as historic)
avg rating 3.99 — 482,180 ratings — published 2000
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as historic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,108,906 ratings — published 1997
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as historic)
avg rating 4.34 — 384,865 ratings — published 1992
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as historic)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,017,746 ratings — published 2009
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as historic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,320,100 ratings — published 1847
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as historic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,362,260 ratings — published 1956
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as historic)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,163,557 ratings — published 2018
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as historic)
avg rating 4.14 — 395,150 ratings — published 1980
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as historic)
avg rating 4.16 — 965,447 ratings — published 2006
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as historic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,080,257 ratings — published 2017
Voyager (Outlander, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as historic)
avg rating 4.39 — 330,547 ratings — published 1993
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 50 times as historic)
avg rating 4.32 — 275,649 ratings — published 2007
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as historic)
avg rating 4.32 — 346,928 ratings — published 2010
Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4)
by (shelved 48 times as historic)
avg rating 3.88 — 425,748 ratings — published 2002
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as historic)
avg rating 4.19 — 809,808 ratings — published 2008
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as historic)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,456,788 ratings — published 1868
An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as historic)
avg rating 3.94 — 402,997 ratings — published 2001
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as historic)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,294,633 ratings — published 1811
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as historic)
avg rating 4.34 — 622,536 ratings — published 2017
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as historic)
avg rating 4.10 — 282,553 ratings — published 1980
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as historic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,906,703 ratings — published 1925
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as historic)
avg rating 4.15 — 467,095 ratings — published 2022
Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as historic)
avg rating 4.36 — 268,934 ratings — published 1996
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as historic)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,496,968 ratings — published 2020
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as historic)
avg rating 4.37 — 276,310 ratings — published 2011
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as historic)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,021,851 ratings — published 1844
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 40 times as historic)
avg rating 4.09 — 513,023 ratings — published 2001
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as historic)
avg rating 4.02 — 145,689 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as historic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,488,276 ratings — published 2003
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as historic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,043,834 ratings — published 1847
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as historic)
avg rating 4.35 — 255,077 ratings — published 2016
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as historic)
avg rating 3.94 — 570,238 ratings — published -500
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as historic)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,547,598 ratings — published 2024
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as historic)
avg rating 4.31 — 876,187 ratings — published 2010
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons, #5)
by (shelved 37 times as historic)
avg rating 3.69 — 298,688 ratings — published 2003
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as historic)
avg rating 4.00 — 758,001 ratings — published 2003
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as historic)
avg rating 4.31 — 718,715 ratings — published 2001
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as historic)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,776,673 ratings — published 2022
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as historic)
avg rating 4.04 — 552,158 ratings — published 1985
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