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Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,950 ratings — published 1605
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.89 — 307,002 ratings — published 1980
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.76 — 309,237 ratings — published 1759
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,351,686 ratings — published 1885
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.52 — 37,264 ratings — published 1554
Moll Flanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.52 — 49,298 ratings — published 1722
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,151 ratings — published 1953
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,658 ratings — published 1749
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.97 — 99,962 ratings — published 1842
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,042,265 ratings — published 1876
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.30 — 357,555 ratings — published 2006
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,892 ratings — published 159
Barry Lyndon (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.63 — 3,029 ratings — published 1844
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,287 ratings — published 2008
Under the Net (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.78 — 16,804 ratings — published 1954
The Good Soldier Švejk (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,687 ratings — published 1921
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 — 387,518 ratings — published 1971
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,750 ratings — published 1901
Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 15 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.28 — 6,163 ratings — published 1742
Simplicissimus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,856 ratings — published 1669
The Pickwick Papers (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 32,925 ratings — published 1837
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,567 ratings — published 1959
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,344 ratings — published 1847
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,783 ratings — published 1934
Vanity Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.81 — 134,961 ratings — published 1847
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.43 — 3,590 ratings — published 1771
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,335 ratings — published 1767
The Sot-Weed Factor (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,850 ratings — published 1960
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,735 ratings — published 1932
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,444 ratings — published 1400
The Adventures of Gil Blas (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.81 — 399 ratings — published 1715
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,272 ratings — published 2011
The Ginger Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.60 — 11,395 ratings — published 1955
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,978 ratings — published 60
Roderick Random (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,323 ratings — published 1748
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.41 — 784 ratings — published 1751
Historia de la vida del Buscón (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,029 ratings — published 1626
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.59 — 304,434 ratings — published 1726
Norwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,057 ratings — published 1966
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,552 ratings — published 1349
The Twelve Chairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,918 ratings — published 1928
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,497 ratings — published 1969
Little Big Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,117 ratings — published 1964
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,205 ratings — published 1972
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.41 — 592,082 ratings — published 2024
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,234 ratings — published 1969
Oreo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,189 ratings — published 1974
Martin Chuzzlewit (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,362 ratings — published 1844
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 3.88 — 436,538 ratings — published 1838
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as picaresque)
avg rating 4.21 — 29,824 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
