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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,153,111 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,806,392 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,845,270 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,028,575 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,171,765 ratings — published 1925
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,140,967 ratings — published 1992
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,579,691 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,331,630 ratings — published 1954
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,329,008 ratings — published 1963
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,012,363 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,968,840 ratings — published 1937
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 112 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 984,187 ratings — published 1955
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,534,375 ratings — published 1969
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 795,547 ratings — published 1962
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,164,799 ratings — published 1932
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 98 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,992,486 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,159,032 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 798,170 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 907,400 ratings — published 1961
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,777,916 ratings — published 1988
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 775,595 ratings — published 1938
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,546,221 ratings — published 1942
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,656,709 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,310 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,014 ratings — published 1982
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,882,796 ratings — published 1997
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,385,166 ratings — published 1952
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,627,008 ratings — published 2003
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 390,144 ratings — published 1989
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.46 — 755,168 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,033,315 ratings — published 1939
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 461,957 ratings — published 1957
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.85 — 258,062 ratings — published 1958
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,792,234 ratings — published 2001
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 309,611 ratings — published 1956
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,578,138 ratings — published 1915
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 312,584 ratings — published 1965
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 326,704 ratings — published 1962
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 590,715 ratings — published 1985
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,449 ratings — published 1958
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,085,355 ratings — published 1979
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.77 — 378,626 ratings — published 1925
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,249,724 ratings — published 1954
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,096,397 ratings — published 2006
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,915,881 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 — 132,461 ratings — published 1945
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 760,184 ratings — published 1966
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,349,756 ratings — published 1947
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 565,459 ratings — published 1985
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 435,796 ratings — published 1959
“-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
“E per quanto mi piacerebbe credere che ci sia un verità dietro l'illusione, mi sono convinto che non c'è alcuna verità dietro l'illusione. Perché, tra la "relatà" da un lato, e il punto in cui la mente va a sbattere contro la realtà, esiste uno spazio sottile, uno spicchio d'arcobaleno da cui origina la bellezza, il punto in cui due superfici molto diverse tra loro si mescolano e si confondono per procurare ciò che la vita non ci dà: e questo è lo spazio in cui tutta l'arte prende forma, e tutta la magia.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
