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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 725 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,529,659 ratings — published 1948
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 657 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,937,136 ratings — published 1960
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 479 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,901,207 ratings — published 2005
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 459 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,851,237 ratings — published 1813
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 418 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,607,829 ratings — published 1945
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 375 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,992,425 ratings — published 2008
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,096,851 ratings — published 1866
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,965,648 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,918,326 ratings — published 1951
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 347 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,759,087 ratings — published 2012
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,870,376 ratings — published 1953
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.37 — 890,908 ratings — published 1946
Taming Flame (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,714 ratings — published 2022
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,607,680 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,276,142 ratings — published 2011
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,518,043 ratings — published 2003
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,114,496 ratings — published 1967
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,093,684 ratings — published 1932
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,342,883 ratings — published 1847
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,221,580 ratings — published 1947
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,905,518 ratings — published 1890
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 293 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,500,617 ratings — published 1997
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,223,938 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,454,328 ratings — published 1985
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,158,231 ratings — published 1847
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 279 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,506,469 ratings — published 1943
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 269 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,328,512 ratings — published 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,034,550 ratings — published 1844
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.10 — 939,456 ratings — published 1878
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 254 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,819 ratings — published 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.17 — 594,541 ratings — published 2011
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.39 — 392,171 ratings — published 1880
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 246 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,165,719 ratings — published 2015
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 246 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.87 — 953,089 ratings — published 1955
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,015,745 ratings — published 1999
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,241,183 ratings — published 1963
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,029,220 ratings — published 2011
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,158,829 ratings — published 1936
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.91 — 41,960 ratings — published 2010
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,048,166 ratings — published 1992
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 232 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,479,595 ratings — published 1868
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,166,470 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,918,482 ratings — published 1818
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,426,124 ratings — published 1942
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,488,018 ratings — published 1937
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,358 ratings — published 1869
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as must-read)
avg rating 3.99 — 890,538 ratings — published 1961
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,752,532 ratings — published 2007
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,642,666 ratings — published 1965
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as must-read)
avg rating 4.28 — 945,411 ratings — published 2015
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.”
― For the Love of Art
― For the Love of Art
“If you run out of water, you die. If you lose hope, you’re already dead.”
― The Last City Standing
― The Last City Standing
