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Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,462 ratings — published 1605
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.76 — 310,977 ratings — published 1759
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.89 — 309,177 ratings — published 1980
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,355,253 ratings — published 1885
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.53 — 37,634 ratings — published 1554
Moll Flanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.52 — 49,450 ratings — published 1722
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,205 ratings — published 1953
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,709 ratings — published 1749
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.97 — 100,863 ratings — published 1842
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,047,360 ratings — published 1876
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.30 — 361,048 ratings — published 2006
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,002 ratings — published 159
Barry Lyndon (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.63 — 3,055 ratings — published 1844
Under the Net (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.78 — 16,894 ratings — published 1954
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,041 ratings — published 2008
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,906 ratings — published 1901
The Good Soldier Švejk (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,831 ratings — published 1923
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.06 — 389,464 ratings — published 1971
Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 15 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.27 — 6,182 ratings — published 1742
Simplicissimus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,879 ratings — published 1669
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,743 ratings — published 1959
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,390 ratings — published 1847
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.65 — 80,229 ratings — published 1934
Vanity Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.81 — 135,388 ratings — published 1847
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,437 ratings — published 1767
The Sot-Weed Factor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,890 ratings — published 1960
The Pickwick Papers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.86 — 33,101 ratings — published 1837
The Ginger Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.60 — 11,422 ratings — published 1955
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.18 — 50,197 ratings — published 1932
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.43 — 3,595 ratings — published 1771
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,174 ratings — published 1400
The Adventures of Gil Blas (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.81 — 403 ratings — published 1715
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,814 ratings — published 2011
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.77 — 10,050 ratings — published 60
Roderick Random (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,327 ratings — published 1748
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.41 — 787 ratings — published 1751
Historia de la vida del Buscón (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,077 ratings — published 1626
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.59 — 305,671 ratings — published 1726
Norwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,119 ratings — published 1966
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,763 ratings — published 1349
The Twelve Chairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.39 — 25,012 ratings — published 1928
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,609 ratings — published 1969
Little Big Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,169 ratings — published 1964
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,237 ratings — published 1972
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.41 — 606,516 ratings — published 2024
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,242 ratings — published 1969
Oreo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,225 ratings — published 1974
Martin Chuzzlewit (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,431 ratings — published 1844
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.88 — 438,538 ratings — published 1838
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,260 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
