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Modern Classic Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,910,465 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,493,880 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,578,292 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,905,418 ratings — published 1951
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,940,064 ratings — published 1925
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,211,256 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,437,497 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 139 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,853,152 ratings — published 1953
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,037,578 ratings — published 1992
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,230,675 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,847,446 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,475 ratings — published 1969
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 106 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.87 — 949,060 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,084,974 ratings — published 1932
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 772,099 ratings — published 1962
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 93 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,889,654 ratings — published 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,107,892 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 781,653 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.99 — 888,480 ratings — published 1961
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 80 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.25 — 724,881 ratings — published 1938
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,412,662 ratings — published 1942
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,587,893 ratings — published 1988
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,469,861 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,326 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,473 ratings — published 1987
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,456,634 ratings — published 1997
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,318,871 ratings — published 1952
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,185 ratings — published 2003
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.14 — 362,157 ratings — published 1989
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.61 — 449,435 ratings — published 1957
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.03 — 997,347 ratings — published 1939
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.85 — 252,213 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.44 — 644,180 ratings — published 1952
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,757,125 ratings — published 2001
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,899 ratings — published 1958
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.94 — 548,435 ratings — published 1985
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.34 — 256,277 ratings — published 1956
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,013 ratings — published 1945
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 297,833 ratings — published 1962
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,162,902 ratings — published 1954
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,205,931 ratings — published 1947
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,439,112 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 — 2,021,888 ratings — published 1979
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.04 — 556,676 ratings — published 1985
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.78 — 358,274 ratings — published 1925
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,512,402 ratings — published 1998
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,817,969 ratings — published 1993
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 3.81 — 397,317 ratings — published 1959
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,041,769 ratings — published 2006
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as modern-classic)
avg rating 4.09 — 506,571 ratings — published 1972
“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.”
―
“You’re inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow time down?” Dunbar was almost angry when he finished.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
