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Modern Classic Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,063,283 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,684,775 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,747,622 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,981,204 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,085,369 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,526,594 ratings — published 1985
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,099,125 ratings — published 1992
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,286,525 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,950,274 ratings — published 1963
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,289,297 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,920,134 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,516,140 ratings — published 1969
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 970,513 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,133,448 ratings — published 1932
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 99 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,954,302 ratings — published 2005
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 787,249 ratings — published 1962
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,137,413 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 792,087 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 900,283 ratings — published 1961
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 753,499 ratings — published 1938
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,704,833 ratings — published 1988
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,492,244 ratings — published 1942
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,584,140 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,198 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 768,096 ratings — published 1982
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,358,208 ratings — published 1952
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,706,699 ratings — published 1997
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 378,985 ratings — published 1989
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,579,602 ratings — published 2003
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 457,016 ratings — published 1957
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.45 — 694,512 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,018,356 ratings — published 1939
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.85 — 255,729 ratings — published 1958
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,779,076 ratings — published 2001
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 285,105 ratings — published 1956
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 312,671 ratings — published 1962
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,002 ratings — published 1958
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 287,274 ratings — published 1965
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,217,809 ratings — published 1954
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,879,677 ratings — published 1993
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,322 ratings — published 1945
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,517,838 ratings — published 1915
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,061,141 ratings — published 1979
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 577,323 ratings — published 1985
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.77 — 370,286 ratings — published 1925
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 558,496 ratings — published 1985
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 749,287 ratings — published 1966
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,075,271 ratings — published 2006
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,570,762 ratings — published 1943
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 441,727 ratings — published 1967
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
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"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
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“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being...”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
