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Red Russia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 218 times as modern)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,509 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as modern)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,696 ratings — published 2003
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as modern)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,111,481 ratings — published 1925
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as modern)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,861,277 ratings — published 2012
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as modern)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,719,865 ratings — published 1949
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as modern)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,628,735 ratings — published 2003
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as modern)
avg rating 3.85 — 905,336 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as modern)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,752,238 ratings — published 1997
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 120 times as modern)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,575,678 ratings — published 2003
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as modern)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,783,013 ratings — published 2001
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as modern)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,109,958 ratings — published 1992
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as modern)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,089,025 ratings — published 1960
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as modern)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,726,579 ratings — published 1988
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 117 times as modern)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,875,713 ratings — published 2003
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as modern)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,080,853 ratings — published 2006
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as modern)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,995,227 ratings — published 1951
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as modern)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,842 ratings — published 2001
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as modern)
avg rating 4.18 — 661,444 ratings — published 1996
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as modern)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,384,792 ratings — published 2017
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 105 times as modern)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,965,401 ratings — published 2005
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as modern)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,062,638 ratings — published 1999
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as modern)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,541,623 ratings — published 2012
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as modern)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,516,185 ratings — published 2005
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as modern)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,228,412 ratings — published 2008
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as modern)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,542,114 ratings — published 1985
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as modern)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,980,027 ratings — published 2018
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as modern)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,077,502 ratings — published 2013
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as modern)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,485,535 ratings — published 2002
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as modern)
avg rating 3.98 — 765,641 ratings — published 1987
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as modern)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,806,371 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as modern)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,508,791 ratings — published 1942
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as modern)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,521,230 ratings — published 1969
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as modern)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,451,309 ratings — published 2000
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as modern)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,642,938 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 89 times as modern)
avg rating 3.87 — 973,925 ratings — published 1955
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as modern)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,483,958 ratings — published 2005
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as modern)
avg rating 4.27 — 998,414 ratings — published 2015
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 83 times as modern)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,012,558 ratings — published 1999
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as modern)
avg rating 3.99 — 902,254 ratings — published 1961
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as modern)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,071,483 ratings — published 2021
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as modern)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,300,709 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as modern)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,646,761 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 78 times as modern)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,325,306 ratings — published 2000
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as modern)
avg rating 4.00 — 789,597 ratings — published 1962
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as modern)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,778,195 ratings — published 1945
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as modern)
avg rating 3.93 — 417,962 ratings — published 1925
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as modern)
avg rating 4.11 — 572,406 ratings — published 2002
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as modern)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,140,308 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 77 times as modern)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,214,926 ratings — published 2007
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as modern)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,684 ratings — published 1962
“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for me. He was really surprised - his favorite drink is actually 7UP. But he complimented me for getting the color of the can right.”
― Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
― Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
“The city of Leonia refashions itself every day: every morning the people wake between fresh sheets, wash with just-unwrapped cakes of soap, wear brand-new clothing, take from the latest model refrigerator still unopened tins, listening to the last-minute jingles from the most up-to-date radio.
On the sidewalks, encased in spotless plastic bags, the remains of yesterday's Leonia await the garbage truck. Not only squeezed tubes of toothpaste, blown-out light bulbs, newspapers, containers, wrappings, but also boilers, encyclopedias, pianos, porcelain dinner services.
It is not so much by the things that each day are manufactured, sold, bought, that you can measure Leonia's opulence, but rather by the things that each day are thrown out to make room for the new.
So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really , as they say, the enjoyment of new things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity. The fact is that street cleaners are welcomed like angels.”
― Invisible Cities
On the sidewalks, encased in spotless plastic bags, the remains of yesterday's Leonia await the garbage truck. Not only squeezed tubes of toothpaste, blown-out light bulbs, newspapers, containers, wrappings, but also boilers, encyclopedias, pianos, porcelain dinner services.
It is not so much by the things that each day are manufactured, sold, bought, that you can measure Leonia's opulence, but rather by the things that each day are thrown out to make room for the new.
So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really , as they say, the enjoyment of new things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity. The fact is that street cleaners are welcomed like angels.”
― Invisible Cities
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