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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,111,293 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,748,518 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,795,799 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,006,610 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,131,516 ratings — published 1925
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,118,998 ratings — published 1992
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,554,104 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,310,006 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,982,674 ratings — published 1963
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,309,839 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,945,450 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,525,494 ratings — published 1969
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 111 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 976,960 ratings — published 1955
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 791,411 ratings — published 1962
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,149,973 ratings — published 1932
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 98 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,974,071 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,147,632 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 795,114 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 903,877 ratings — published 1961
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,744,248 ratings — published 1988
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 762,740 ratings — published 1938
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,519,158 ratings — published 1942
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,622,207 ratings — published 1937
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,162 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,114 ratings — published 1982
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,372,552 ratings — published 1952
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,605,056 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,788,267 ratings — published 1997
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 384,610 ratings — published 1989
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 459,675 ratings — published 1957
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.46 — 717,949 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,025,930 ratings — published 1939
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,900 ratings — published 1958
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,786,197 ratings — published 2001
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 297,869 ratings — published 1956
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,501 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,548,953 ratings — published 1915
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 300,128 ratings — published 1965
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,657 ratings — published 1958
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,073,617 ratings — published 1979
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 583,790 ratings — published 1985
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,899,597 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 — 131,412 ratings — published 1945
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,233,446 ratings — published 1954
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 754,431 ratings — published 1966
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,085,483 ratings — published 2006
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.77 — 374,050 ratings — published 1925
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 561,998 ratings — published 1985
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 422,111 ratings — published 1959
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,600,037 ratings — published 1943
“-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
“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
