186 books
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106 voters
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as international)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,567,656 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as international)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,787,062 ratings — published 2007
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 139 times as international)
avg rating 4.34 — 666,758 ratings — published 2017
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 120 times as international)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,689 ratings — published 1958
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as international)
avg rating 4.31 — 740,497 ratings — published 2001
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as international)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,133,127 ratings — published 1967
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as international)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,623 ratings — published 2013
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as international)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,580 ratings — published 2016
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as international)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,944,581 ratings — published 2005
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as international)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,257,131 ratings — published 2012
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as international)
avg rating 3.67 — 397,308 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as international)
avg rating 4.05 — 495,518 ratings — published 2011
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as international)
avg rating 4.34 — 189,277 ratings — published 2006
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as international)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,499,003 ratings — published 2005
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as international)
avg rating 3.96 — 335,512 ratings — published 1997
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as international)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,687,094 ratings — published 1988
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as international)
avg rating 3.65 — 430,091 ratings — published 2007
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as international)
avg rating 4.49 — 832,134 ratings — published 2016
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as international)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,132,250 ratings — published 1997
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as international)
avg rating 4.27 — 237,231 ratings — published 2003
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as international)
avg rating 4.08 — 412,686 ratings — published 2012
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as international)
avg rating 3.94 — 556,232 ratings — published 1985
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as international)
avg rating 3.65 — 745,807 ratings — published 2015
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as international)
avg rating 3.98 — 756,021 ratings — published 1987
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as international)
avg rating 4.30 — 336,934 ratings — published 1982
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as international)
avg rating 4.16 — 633,883 ratings — published 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as international)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,569 ratings — published 2012
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as international)
avg rating 4.31 — 691,945 ratings — published 2016
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as international)
avg rating 4.11 — 566,001 ratings — published 2002
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as international)
avg rating 4.11 — 954,844 ratings — published 1878
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as international)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,253 ratings — published 2006
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as international)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,479,413 ratings — published 1942
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as international)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,407 ratings — published 1999
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 60 times as international)
avg rating 3.93 — 171,456 ratings — published 2009
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as international)
avg rating 4.34 — 435,018 ratings — published 2009
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as international)
avg rating 4.28 — 438,924 ratings — published 1967
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as international)
avg rating 4.16 — 857,109 ratings — published 2019
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as international)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,039,142 ratings — published 2014
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as international)
avg rating 4.08 — 491,600 ratings — published 2021
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as international)
avg rating 3.63 — 369,333 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as international)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,390,894 ratings — published 1956
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as international)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,037 ratings — published 2007
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as international)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,775,422 ratings — published 2001
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as international)
avg rating 3.95 — 402,301 ratings — published 1989
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as international)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,128,603 ratings — published 1866
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as international)
avg rating 4.42 — 178,590 ratings — published 2020
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as international)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,281,181 ratings — published 1947
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as international)
avg rating 3.74 — 153,946 ratings — published 2017
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as international)
avg rating 4.38 — 162,949 ratings — published 1995
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as international)
avg rating 4.10 — 559,389 ratings — published 1984
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