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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 715 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,448,874 ratings — published 1949
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 648 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,875,250 ratings — published 1960
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 471 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,874,842 ratings — published 2005
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 452 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,793,829 ratings — published 1813
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,541,117 ratings — published 1945
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 373 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,893,728 ratings — published 2008
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,907,085 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,889,003 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,077,723 ratings — published 1866
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 348 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,716,591 ratings — published 2012
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 340 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,830,963 ratings — published 1953
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.37 — 875,184 ratings — published 1946
Taming Flame (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,720 ratings — published 2022
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,562,091 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,258,501 ratings — published 2011
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,103,152 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,488,467 ratings — published 2003
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,320,213 ratings — published 1847
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,074,030 ratings — published 1932
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,186,526 ratings — published 1947
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,873,892 ratings — published 1890
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 294 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,395,799 ratings — published 1997
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,196,133 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 284 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,417,469 ratings — published 1985
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 277 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,472,522 ratings — published 1943
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,044,051 ratings — published 1847
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 268 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,290,633 ratings — published 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,021,918 ratings — published 1844
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.10 — 930,216 ratings — published 1878
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.17 — 587,493 ratings — published 2011
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 255 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.92 — 40,437 ratings — published 2012
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 246 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.87 — 944,339 ratings — published 1955
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.39 — 385,572 ratings — published 1880
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 242 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,150,082 ratings — published 2015
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,998,252 ratings — published 1999
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,217,794 ratings — published 1963
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,147,447 ratings — published 1936
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.90 — 40,542 ratings — published 2010
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,978,024 ratings — published 2011
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,024,575 ratings — published 1992
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,080,773 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,883,083 ratings — published 1818
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 227 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,456,922 ratings — published 1868
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,396,646 ratings — published 1942
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.17 — 365,454 ratings — published 1869
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.99 — 886,047 ratings — published 1961
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,449,711 ratings — published 1937
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 208 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,013,583 ratings — published 1979
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,732,392 ratings — published 2007
Chasing Headlines (Chasing Victory #1)
by (shelved 206 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.24 — 9,460 ratings — published 2025
“Sweet would be the last adjective I’d use to describe him. Arrogant. Despicable. Passive-aggressive. But no, sweet didn’t even cross my mind.”
― Cast Away
― Cast Away
“Modern science flourished in and thanks to European empires.”
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