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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4223 times as literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,106,752 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4071 times as literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,713,168 ratings — published 1949
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3869 times as literature)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,085,127 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3720 times as literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,772,435 ratings — published 1945
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3582 times as literature)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,977,333 ratings — published 1813
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3189 times as literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,992,517 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2960 times as literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,143,971 ratings — published 1866
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2678 times as literature)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,931,662 ratings — published 1937
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2665 times as literature)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,297,396 ratings — published 1954
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2620 times as literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,399,553 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2591 times as literature)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,981,242 ratings — published 1890
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2561 times as literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,503,178 ratings — published 1942
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2514 times as literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,140,636 ratings — published 1932
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2482 times as literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,274,488 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2458 times as literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,986,000 ratings — published 1818
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2311 times as literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,529,955 ratings — published 1915
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2259 times as literature)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,364,550 ratings — published 1952
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2194 times as literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,964,303 ratings — published 1963
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2141 times as literature)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,261,678 ratings — published -750
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2140 times as literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,141,785 ratings — published 1967
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2066 times as literature)
avg rating 4.40 — 410,098 ratings — published 1879
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 2034 times as literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,351,024 ratings — published 1885
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2028 times as literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 961,639 ratings — published 1878
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 1945 times as literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,520,258 ratings — published 1969
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 1937 times as literature)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,030,722 ratings — published 1859
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1885 times as literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 973,283 ratings — published 1955
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1870 times as literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,880,743 ratings — published 1590
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1814 times as literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,072,578 ratings — published 1846
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 1799 times as literature)
avg rating 3.57 — 631,991 ratings — published 1851
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 1774 times as literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,084,585 ratings — published 1601
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 1760 times as literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 891,748 ratings — published 1861
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1737 times as literature)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,021,660 ratings — published 1939
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 1692 times as literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 376,019 ratings — published 1868
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1675 times as literature)
avg rating 3.43 — 572,730 ratings — published 1899
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1615 times as literature)
avg rating 3.44 — 938,664 ratings — published 1850
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1580 times as literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 531,498 ratings — published -750
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1571 times as literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 901,857 ratings — published 1961
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1563 times as literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,539,278 ratings — published 1985
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 1557 times as literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,530,652 ratings — published 1897
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 1549 times as literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,330,795 ratings — published 1811
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1518 times as literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 909,075 ratings — published 1922
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1496 times as literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 860,018 ratings — published 1862
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 1485 times as literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,425 ratings — published 1605
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1482 times as literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,050,215 ratings — published 1623
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1464 times as literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,722,482 ratings — published 1988
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 1450 times as literature)
avg rating 4.45 — 704,569 ratings — published 1952
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 1446 times as literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,529,624 ratings — published 1868
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 1445 times as literature)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,016,726 ratings — published 1815
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1397 times as literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,583,743 ratings — published 1943
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 1363 times as literature)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,298,527 ratings — published 1963
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
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“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
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