125 books
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40 voters
Prose Books
Showing 1-50 of 27,732
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,025,664 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,610,159 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,458,958 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,951,334 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,675,622 ratings — published 1945
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,000,082 ratings — published 1960
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,116,832 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,938,145 ratings — published 1890
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 962,550 ratings — published 1955
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,950,148 ratings — published 1818
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,484,297 ratings — published 1915
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,911,807 ratings — published 1953
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,126,432 ratings — published 1967
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,773,959 ratings — published 1996
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,537,847 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,504,325 ratings — published 1969
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,604,474 ratings — published 1997
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,114,190 ratings — published 1932
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,342,033 ratings — published 1952
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,890,404 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,226,487 ratings — published 1847
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,906,691 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,265,999 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,490,970 ratings — published 1985
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 566,882 ratings — published 1899
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,254,769 ratings — published 1954
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,539,037 ratings — published 1943
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,480 ratings — published 1961
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,578,315 ratings — published 1998
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,062,096 ratings — published 2006
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 408,132 ratings — published 1925
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,941,204 ratings — published 1999
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.76 — 139,816 ratings — published 1922
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,045,262 ratings — published 1979
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 863,809 ratings — published 1974
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,078,899 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,715,022 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,168,645 ratings — published 2007
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 219,965 ratings — published 1927
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 426,072 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,271,169 ratings — published 2000
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,090,910 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,860,131 ratings — published 2003
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 949,057 ratings — published 1878
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,368,356 ratings — published 1847
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 243,423 ratings — published 1864
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 555,737 ratings — published 1984
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,660 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,074,646 ratings — published 1992
“I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
―
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
―
“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”
― Lover's Gift
― Lover's Gift













