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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 118,033 ratings — published 1979
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 216,667 ratings — published 2000
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,536,621 ratings — published 1969
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 61,130 ratings — published 1962
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 139,704 ratings — published 2001
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 966,612 ratings — published 1973
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 54 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,922 ratings — published 1987
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 287,505 ratings — published 1973
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 276,926 ratings — published 2004
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 122,253 ratings — published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 409,732 ratings — published 1980
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 317,254 ratings — published 1605
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 294,033 ratings — published 1991
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,828 ratings — published 1969
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 581,547 ratings — published 2001
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 30,216 ratings — published 2013
At Swim-Two-Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,783 ratings — published 1939
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 228,825 ratings — published 1979
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 168,034 ratings — published 2000
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 57,037 ratings — published 2002
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 448,822 ratings — published 2003
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 84,707 ratings — published 1944
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 87,065 ratings — published 1990
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,805 ratings — published 1996
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,642 ratings — published 1972
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,748 ratings — published 1962
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,177 ratings — published 2003
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 985,839 ratings — published 1955
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,585,992 ratings — published 1985
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,865 ratings — published 1965
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,616 ratings — published 1967
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,505 ratings — published 2007
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 358,151 ratings — published 1990
Lost in the Funhouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,910 ratings — published 1968
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,999 ratings — published 1988
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,506 ratings — published 1767
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,097,488 ratings — published 1601
Houdini Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,459 ratings — published 2011
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 759,830 ratings — published 2001
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,490 ratings — published 2004
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
by (shelved 24 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 27,993 ratings — published 2007
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 264,436 ratings — published 2004
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,192,092 ratings — published 2023
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 475,588 ratings — published 1817
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,793,543 ratings — published 2001
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 141,182 ratings — published 2013
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 456,813 ratings — published 1967
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,088,300 ratings — published 1979
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.58 — 246,382 ratings — published 1962
Chloe and the Lion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,645 ratings — published 2012
“Attention is the rarest currency, and you spent a great deal of yours here. On me.”
― What You Let In
― What You Let In
“A memory is just an
imagining inclined towards the past, after all. You are bound to
relive the same mistakes because you keep imagining your own memories. But consider this: The former things shall not be
remembered; the old that’ve passed. If your future, which is in desire,
can become your past, a memory like any other, then by some mysterious miracle it will become your present too”
― Journeys Beyond Earth
imagining inclined towards the past, after all. You are bound to
relive the same mistakes because you keep imagining your own memories. But consider this: The former things shall not be
remembered; the old that’ve passed. If your future, which is in desire,
can become your past, a memory like any other, then by some mysterious miracle it will become your present too”
― Journeys Beyond Earth
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