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Masterpiece Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,366,361 ratings — published 1949
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,058,876 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,841,425 ratings — published 1890
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,800,028 ratings — published 1960
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,470,497 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,091,530 ratings — published 1967
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,937,656 ratings — published 2011
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.76 — 475,094 ratings — published 2014
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.66 — 653,279 ratings — published 2010
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,434,369 ratings — published 1943
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 30 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,605,830 ratings — published 1965
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,264,529 ratings — published 1997
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,110,057 ratings — published 1954
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,412,245 ratings — published 1937
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,991,023 ratings — published 2017
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,736,158 ratings — published 1813
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,836,579 ratings — published 1925
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.28 — 413,439 ratings — published 1967
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,391,392 ratings — published
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 380,641 ratings — published 1880
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,134,609 ratings — published 2015
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.87 — 935,692 ratings — published 1955
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,455,938 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,846,460 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,774,685 ratings — published 1999
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,070,135 ratings — published 2007
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,374,090 ratings — published 2023
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.28 — 902,697 ratings — published 2015
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,000,115 ratings — published 1992
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,753,895 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,144,184 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,070,280 ratings — published 2007
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,026,773 ratings — published 1955
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,011,213 ratings — published 1844
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,842,623 ratings — published 1818
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.57 — 758,406 ratings — published 2016
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.49 — 944,282 ratings — published 2006
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,366,847 ratings — published 1942
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,109,341 ratings — published 1954
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,855,899 ratings — published 1951
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,297,755 ratings — published 1847
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.64 — 3,102,118 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,433,383 ratings — published 1998
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.10 — 921,475 ratings — published 1878
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,660,541 ratings — published 2012
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.17 — 362,403 ratings — published 1869
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,619,995 ratings — published 2005
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.39 — 590,501 ratings — published 1987
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,771,358 ratings — published 2008
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as masterpiece)
avg rating 4.11 — 537,029 ratings — published 1984
“When love is at the base of something, it is a masterpiece.”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
