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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,512,796 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,592,989 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,112,018 ratings — published 1967
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,446,145 ratings — published 1915
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,912,158 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,419,636 ratings — published 1942
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,092,701 ratings — published 1866
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,479,479 ratings — published 1997
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,217,772 ratings — published 1954
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,924,327 ratings — published 1960
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,839,017 ratings — published 1813
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,898,665 ratings — published 1890
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,953,127 ratings — published 1925
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,478,382 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,089,479 ratings — published 1932
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,499,671 ratings — published 1943
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,446,362 ratings — published 1985
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,598,119 ratings — published 1988
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.43 — 561,111 ratings — published 1899
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.99 — 735,908 ratings — published 1987
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,862,035 ratings — published 1953
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.12 — 552,635 ratings — published 2002
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,887,787 ratings — published 2018
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,322,346 ratings — published 1952
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.87 — 951,156 ratings — published 1955
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,523,272 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,876,116 ratings — published 1999
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,042,973 ratings — published 1992
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,511,736 ratings — published 2003
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,126,279 ratings — published 1847
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,218,917 ratings — published 2000
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,910,878 ratings — published 1818
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.08 — 882,964 ratings — published 1922
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 397,284 ratings — published 1980
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 233,814 ratings — published 1864
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,031,552 ratings — published 1844
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 547,878 ratings — published 1984
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.18 — 341,629 ratings — published 1995
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,972,537 ratings — published 2008
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.00 — 773,496 ratings — published 1962
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,170,497 ratings — published 1954
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,895,612 ratings — published 2005
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,638,707 ratings — published 1965
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,025,451 ratings — published 1979
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,408,101 ratings — published 2000
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.39 — 390,582 ratings — published 1880
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,489,970 ratings — published 1969
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.69 — 156,606 ratings — published 1774
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,991 ratings — published 1615
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.10 — 937,389 ratings — published 1878
“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
― Lord of Light
― Lord of Light
“Telling a story is not like weaving a tapestry to cover up the world, it is rather a way of guiding attention of listeners or readers into it.”
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