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1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,829,177 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,864,691 ratings — published 1945
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,820 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,036,962 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,176,899 ratings — published 1866
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,586,866 ratings — published 1915
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,913,383 ratings — published 1997
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,556,330 ratings — published 1942
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 5,053,227 ratings — published 1813
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,034,523 ratings — published 1890
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,669,576 ratings — published 1937
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,170,098 ratings — published 1960
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,340,302 ratings — published 1954
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 6,187,654 ratings — published 1925
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,636,746 ratings — published 1943
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,170,419 ratings — published 1932
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,790,597 ratings — published 1988
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,589,600 ratings — published 1985
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 781,830 ratings — published 1987
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,023,847 ratings — published 1963
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 579,693 ratings — published 1899
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,028,066 ratings — published 2018
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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avg rating 4.43 — 4,712,303 ratings — published 1998
Frankenstein (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,039,464 ratings — published 1818
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 410,113 ratings — published 1980
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,319,443 ratings — published 1847
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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avg rating 4.58 — 5,094,745 ratings — published 1999
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,389,989 ratings — published 1952
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 986,691 ratings — published 1955
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,098,029 ratings — published 1846
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 583,052 ratings — published 2002
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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avg rating 4.56 — 4,391,731 ratings — published 2000
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,635,344 ratings — published 2003
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative)
avg rating 4.19 — 369,267 ratings — published 1995
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 925,497 ratings — published 1922
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,537,810 ratings — published 1969
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 267,581 ratings — published 1864
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,151,024 ratings — published 1992
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,596,898 ratings — published 2003
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 165,757 ratings — published 1774
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 524,149 ratings — published 2011
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 457,720 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,267,312 ratings — published 2007
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,363,857 ratings — published 2008
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,089,848 ratings — published 1979
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as narrative)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,473,230 ratings — published 2000
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 317,512 ratings — published 1605
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 797,132 ratings — published 1962
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 976,570 ratings — published 1878
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 574,375 ratings — published 1984
“...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on and planned out, not even the will of a god seems forceful enough to manage it, if our own will is made in its semblance. It may be, rather, that nothing is ever unmixed and the thirst for totality is never quenched, perhaps because it is a false yearning. Nothing is whole or of a single piece, everything is fractured and evenomed, veins of peace run through the body of war and hatred insinuates itself into love and compassion, there is truce amid the quagmire of bullets and a bullet amid the revelries, nothing can bear to be unique or prevail or be dominant and everything needs fissures and cracks, needs it negation at the same time as its existence. And nothing is known with certainty and everything is told figuratively.”
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“Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.”
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