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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,626,596 ratings — published 1997
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,112,294 ratings — published 2008
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,918,480 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,014,466 ratings — published 1960
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,421,279 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,587,397 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,952,179 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 54 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,279,562 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 51 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,867,251 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 50 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,721,857 ratings — published 2005
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,439,633 ratings — published 2011
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,254,089 ratings — published 2009
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,373,529 ratings — published 1847
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,039,344 ratings — published 1925
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,505,770 ratings — published 1868
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 48 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,176,502 ratings — published 2007
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,809,685 ratings — published 2012
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,805,932 ratings — published 2010
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,690,864 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,626,976 ratings — published 1948
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,235,724 ratings — published 1847
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,548,061 ratings — published 1937
New Moon (Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,157,524 ratings — published 2006
Eclipse (Crepúsculo, #3)
by (shelved 41 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,019,384 ratings — published 2007
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,506,620 ratings — published 2005
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,859,267 ratings — published 1993
Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 38 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,897,488 ratings — published 2008
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,944,912 ratings — published 1890
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,860,842 ratings — published 1590
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,956,221 ratings — published 1818
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,223,701 ratings — published -700
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,202,536 ratings — published 1954
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,318,090 ratings — published 1811
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,194,015 ratings — published 1950
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.11 — 951,424 ratings — published 1878
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,957,993 ratings — published 1951
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,005,269 ratings — published 1815
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,641,206 ratings — published 2012
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,897,156 ratings — published 1937
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,934,597 ratings — published 2005
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,512,378 ratings — published 1897
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,266,993 ratings — published 1947
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,381,807 ratings — published 1998
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,545,536 ratings — published 1943
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,132,277 ratings — published 1988
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,195,525 ratings — published 2007
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,652,000 ratings — published 1967
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,262,646 ratings — published 1954
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-books)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,024,679 ratings — published 1859
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-books)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,079,201 ratings — published 1952
“It's as if we imagine an old book to be a time machine that brings the writer to us. We buy a book and take it home, and the writer appears before us, asking to be admitted into our company. If we find that the writer's views are ethnocentric or sexist or racist, we reject the application, and we bar his or her entry into the present ... it isn't the writer who's the time traveler. It's the reader. When we pick up an old novel, we're not bringing the novelist into our world and deciding whether he or she is enlightened enough to belong here; we're journeying into the novelists's world and taking a look around. The author is not a guest at our table; we are a guest at hers.”
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“Books, child, are not to be swallowed whole like broth on a feasting day. Lo. They are to be tasted, questioned, turned upon the tongue of the mind. When you open one, do not ask only what it says, but what it dares to mean.” (When Secrets Bloom)”
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