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118 voters
Picaresque Books
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Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,048 ratings — published 1615
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.76 — 303,105 ratings — published 1759
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,340,387 ratings — published 1885
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.89 — 299,762 ratings — published 1980
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.52 — 35,994 ratings — published 1554
Moll Flanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.52 — 48,795 ratings — published 1722
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,959 ratings — published 1953
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.98 — 97,057 ratings — published 1842
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,376 ratings — published 1749
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,023,427 ratings — published 1876
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.30 — 344,327 ratings — published 2006
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,329 ratings — published 159
Barry Lyndon (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,888 ratings — published 1844
Under the Net (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.78 — 16,448 ratings — published 1954
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,458 ratings — published 2008
Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 15 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.28 — 6,087 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 — 380,220 ratings — published 1971
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,170 ratings — published 1901
Simplicissimus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,801 ratings — published 1669
The Good Soldier Švejk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,208 ratings — published 1921
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.73 — 22,989 ratings — published 1767
The Pickwick Papers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 32,322 ratings — published 1837
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.95 — 46,855 ratings — published 1959
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.65 — 78,302 ratings — published 1934
Vanity Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.81 — 133,429 ratings — published 1847
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.43 — 3,561 ratings — published 1771
The Adventures of Gil Blas (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.80 — 384 ratings — published 1715
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,209 ratings — published 1847
Roderick Random (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,300 ratings — published 1748
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.53 — 238,606 ratings — published 1400
The Sot-Weed Factor (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,759 ratings — published 1960
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 — 3,838 ratings — published 1626
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,780 ratings — published 1349
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,199 ratings — published 1932
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,744 ratings — published 60
The Twelve Chairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,572 ratings — published 1928
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 103,573 ratings — published 2011
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,056 ratings — published 1969
The Ginger Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.61 — 11,272 ratings — published 1955
Little Big Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,924 ratings — published 1964
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,213 ratings — published 1969
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.59 — 299,977 ratings — published 1726
Oreo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,065 ratings — published 1974
Martin Chuzzlewit (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,143 ratings — published 1844
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.88 — 429,654 ratings — published 1838
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,477 ratings — published 1979
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,086 ratings — published 1972
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.43 — 517,345 ratings — published 2024
Jonathan Wild (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.40 — 613 ratings — published 1743
“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






