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Modern Classic Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,004,868 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,615,732 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,680,593 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,953,476 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,030,048 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,493,669 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,257,528 ratings — published 1954
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,076,430 ratings — published 1992
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,914,664 ratings — published 1953
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,267,722 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,892,570 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,505,238 ratings — published 1969
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 963,192 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,115,690 ratings — published 1932
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 782,095 ratings — published 1962
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 97 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,930,573 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,127,279 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 788,424 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,868 ratings — published 1961
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 743,023 ratings — published 1938
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,461,383 ratings — published 1942
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,662,212 ratings — published 1988
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,541,157 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 763,248 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 502,100 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,343,216 ratings — published 1952
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,611,726 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,551,272 ratings — published 2003
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 372,644 ratings — published 1989
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 454,304 ratings — published 1957
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,010,233 ratings — published 1939
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.45 — 671,509 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,376 ratings — published 1958
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,770,676 ratings — published 2001
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 273,602 ratings — published 1956
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,042 ratings — published 1962
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,770 ratings — published 1958
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,199,442 ratings — published 1954
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,046,456 ratings — published 1979
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,856 ratings — published 1945
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 554,258 ratings — published 1985
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,063,133 ratings — published 2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 570,261 ratings — published 1985
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,855,518 ratings — published 1993
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.77 — 365,680 ratings — published 1925
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,486,471 ratings — published 1915
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 743,419 ratings — published 1966
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 510,330 ratings — published 1972
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,261,499 ratings — published 1947
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,648,089 ratings — published 1967
“O, gentle Bard, if thou couldst but glimpse our digital age!
We set words in light called ‘blogs,’
Which are, alas, neither fens nor afflictions.
They are thoughts taken wing for the world to see,
Much like thou didst with plays posthumously,
Held eternally aloft in iambic pentameter.”
―
We set words in light called ‘blogs,’
Which are, alas, neither fens nor afflictions.
They are thoughts taken wing for the world to see,
Much like thou didst with plays posthumously,
Held eternally aloft in iambic pentameter.”
―
“-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
