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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,129,870 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,746,232 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,518,097 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as prose)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,005,720 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,793,773 ratings — published 1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,995,127 ratings — published 1890
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,152,904 ratings — published 1866
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,109,557 ratings — published 1960
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 976,718 ratings — published 1955
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,547,937 ratings — published 1915
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,996,268 ratings — published 1818
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,981,491 ratings — published 1963
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as prose)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,811,681 ratings — published 1996
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,147,225 ratings — published 1967
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,620,809 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,785,306 ratings — published 1997
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as prose)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,371,981 ratings — published 1952
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,149,407 ratings — published 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,525,195 ratings — published 1969
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,998,244 ratings — published 1813
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,309,089 ratings — published 1963
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prose)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,286,850 ratings — published 1847
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,553,104 ratings — published 1985
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,944,579 ratings — published 1937
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prose)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,309,249 ratings — published 1954
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,598,995 ratings — published 1943
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 50 times as prose)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,660,394 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 3.43 — 574,537 ratings — published 1899
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 903,750 ratings — published 1961
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 420,334 ratings — published 1925
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,527 ratings — published 1922
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,028,359 ratings — published 1999
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,168,589 ratings — published 2011
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 881,338 ratings — published 1974
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,073,183 ratings — published 1979
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as prose)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,258,581 ratings — published 2008
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,408,987 ratings — published 1847
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 258,011 ratings — published 1864
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,337,513 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,767,124 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,224,867 ratings — published 2007
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 225,502 ratings — published 1927
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 40 times as prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,915,605 ratings — published 2003
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 441,689 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,462,701 ratings — published 2018
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,118,296 ratings — published 1992
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 913,878 ratings — published 1922
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prose)
avg rating 3.77 — 373,897 ratings — published 1925
“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.”
― In America
― In America
“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”
― Complete Prose Works
― Complete Prose Works
