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Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,339,965 ratings — published 1954
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,187,029 ratings — published 1925
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,825,629 ratings — published 2018
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,706,213 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,634,978 ratings — published 2003
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,362,259 ratings — published 2008
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,790,023 ratings — published 1988
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 668,198 ratings — published 1996
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 222,820 ratings — published 1975
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,723,473 ratings — published 2020
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 665,121 ratings — published 2017
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,027,641 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,503,492 ratings — published 2017
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,490,734 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,362,124 ratings — published 2017
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 617,272 ratings — published 2024
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,939,864 ratings — published 2021
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 228,761 ratings — published 1927
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.43 — 579,639 ratings — published 1899
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,023,329 ratings — published 1963
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 196,586 ratings — published 1930
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 851,249 ratings — published 1990
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,169,372 ratings — published 1960
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,255,746 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,099,455 ratings — published 1955
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,113,692 ratings — published 2009
Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover (Miss Julia, #15)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,517 ratings — published 2014
Barn Dance! (Reading Rainbow)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 692 ratings — published 1986
Diego and the Baby Sea Turtles (Go, Diego, Go!)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 48 ratings — published 2008
Baby Sea Turtle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 16 ratings — published 2007
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,731,450 ratings — published 2006
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,915,453 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,379,984 ratings — published 2009
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,882,394 ratings — published 2003
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,669 ratings — published 2008
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 781,697 ratings — published 1987
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 986,602 ratings — published 1955
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,555,909 ratings — published 1942
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,683 ratings — published 1967
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.51 — 327,986 ratings — published 2021
Yesteryear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,168,981 ratings — published 2026
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 397,791 ratings — published 2021
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.67 — 282,340 ratings — published 2022
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 485,345 ratings — published 2021
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 728,894 ratings — published 2020
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.62 — 241,288 ratings — published 2023
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 249,416 ratings — published 2024
This Is How You Lose Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 100,995 ratings — published 2010
Persephone’s Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.08 — 203 ratings — published 2021
Dissipatio H.G. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-fiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,518 ratings — published 1977
“In a whodunnit, when a detective hears that Sir Somebody Smith has been stabbed thirty-six times on a train or decapitated, they accept it as a quite natural occurrence. They pack their bags and head off to ask questions, collect clues, ultimately to make an arrest. But I wasn't a detective. I was an editor—and, until a week ago, not a single one of my acquaintances had managed to die in an unusual and violent manner. Apart from my own parents and Alan, I hardly knew anyone who had died at all. It's strange when you think about it. There are hundreds and hundreds of murders in books and television. It would be hard for narrative fiction to survive without them. And yet there are almost none in real life, unless you happen to live in the wrong area. Why is it that we have such a need for murder mystery and what is it that attracts us—the crime or the solution? Do we have some primal need of bloodshed because our own lives are so safe, so comfortable? I made a mental note to check out Alan's sales figures in San Pedro Sula in Honduras (the murder capital of the world). It might be that they didn't read him at all.”
― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
