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118 voters
Picaresque Books
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Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.91 — 311,586 ratings — published 1605
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.89 — 304,769 ratings — published 1980
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.76 — 307,476 ratings — published 1759
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,348,146 ratings — published 1885
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.52 — 36,907 ratings — published 1554
Moll Flanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.52 — 49,148 ratings — published 1722
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,108 ratings — published 1953
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.98 — 99,109 ratings — published 1842
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,564 ratings — published 1749
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,036,561 ratings — published 1876
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.30 — 353,695 ratings — published 2006
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,720 ratings — published 159
Barry Lyndon (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,977 ratings — published 1844
Under the Net (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.78 — 16,716 ratings — published 1954
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.77 — 205,503 ratings — published 2008
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,577 ratings — published 1901
The Good Soldier Švejk (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,565 ratings — published 1921
Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 15 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.28 — 6,147 ratings — published 1742
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.06 — 385,561 ratings — published 1971
Simplicissimus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,840 ratings — published 1669
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,221 ratings — published 1767
The Pickwick Papers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.86 — 32,766 ratings — published 1837
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,352 ratings — published 1959
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,307 ratings — published 1847
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,330 ratings — published 1934
Vanity Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.81 — 134,463 ratings — published 1847
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.43 — 3,580 ratings — published 1771
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.53 — 240,655 ratings — published 1400
The Adventures of Gil Blas (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.82 — 395 ratings — published 1715
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,264 ratings — published 1932
Roderick Random (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,318 ratings — published 1748
The Sot-Weed Factor (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,830 ratings — published 1960
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,760 ratings — published 2011
The Ginger Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.60 — 11,355 ratings — published 1955
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.41 — 781 ratings — published 1751
Historia de la vida del Buscón (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,976 ratings — published 1626
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.59 — 303,132 ratings — published 1726
Norwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,988 ratings — published 1966
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,332 ratings — published 1349
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,926 ratings — published 60
The Twelve Chairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,818 ratings — published 1928
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,358 ratings — published 1969
Little Big Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,064 ratings — published 1964
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,163 ratings — published 1972
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.41 — 573,873 ratings — published 2024
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,229 ratings — published 1969
Oreo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,157 ratings — published 1974
Martin Chuzzlewit (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,310 ratings — published 1844
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.88 — 434,527 ratings — published 1838
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.21 — 29,411 ratings — published 1979
“What should he do if word went around that in his throne room hung a magic picture that only the highborn could see, but he couldn't? Of course there was no picture there, it had been one of the fool's jokes, but now that the canvas hung there, it had developed its own power.”
― Tyll
― Tyll






