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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,078,659 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,676,053 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,488,318 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,734,638 ratings — published 1945
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,977,735 ratings — published 1951
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,965,646 ratings — published 1890
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,056,122 ratings — published 1960
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,133,971 ratings — published 1866
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 969,703 ratings — published 1955
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,514,152 ratings — published 1915
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,973,877 ratings — published 1818
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,136,100 ratings — published 1967
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,945,916 ratings — published 1963
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,791,720 ratings — published 1996
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,578,654 ratings — published 1937
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,514,704 ratings — published 1969
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,131,282 ratings — published 1932
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,694,591 ratings — published 1997
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,356,291 ratings — published 1952
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,259,306 ratings — published 1847
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,952,823 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,286,644 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,916,595 ratings — published 1937
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,522,599 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as prose)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,283,173 ratings — published 1954
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 570,726 ratings — published 1899
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 899,722 ratings — published 1961
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,623,359 ratings — published 1998
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,566,937 ratings — published 1943
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,073,746 ratings — published 2006
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 414,043 ratings — published 1925
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,985,154 ratings — published 1999
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 3.76 — 140,750 ratings — published 1922
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,118,528 ratings — published 2011
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,059,358 ratings — published 1979
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 872,625 ratings — published 1974
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,388,755 ratings — published 1847
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,741,513 ratings — published 2005
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,175,867 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,197,887 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,304,555 ratings — published 2000
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 222,730 ratings — published 1927
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,888,181 ratings — published 2003
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 434,032 ratings — published 2019
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 250,445 ratings — published 1864
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 957,264 ratings — published 1878
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,423,297 ratings — published 2018
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 3.77 — 369,745 ratings — published 1925
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 786,593 ratings — published 1962
“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
―
Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
―
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow
for I am not a poem.
I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspired
but empty and weary
from drinking too much
at all times
and I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speak
for I don’t speak much
at all
and my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too much
or not at all
and never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am not
a poem
but an elegy
at my best
but unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,
but others are not.”
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
for I am not a poem.
I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspired
but empty and weary
from drinking too much
at all times
and I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speak
for I don’t speak much
at all
and my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too much
or not at all
and never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am not
a poem
but an elegy
at my best
but unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,
but others are not.”
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
