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The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as purple)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,448 ratings — published 1982
Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as purple)
avg rating 4.04 — 131,998 ratings — published 2022
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as purple)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,976 ratings — published 2004
The Bone Witch (The Bone Witch, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as purple)
avg rating 3.67 — 52,748 ratings — published 2017
The Invisibility Cloak (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as purple)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,336 ratings — published 2012
The Brief History of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as purple)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,955 ratings — published 2003
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as purple)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,316 ratings — published 2007
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as purple)
avg rating 3.93 — 76,206 ratings — published 2020
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as purple)
avg rating 3.89 — 64,758 ratings — published 2022
Notes on an Execution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as purple)
avg rating 4.02 — 161,948 ratings — published 2022
The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as purple)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,564 ratings — published 2012
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 4.15 — 163,852 ratings — published 1959
Alias Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 4.04 — 161,779 ratings — published 1996
Mother Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 4.24 — 111,378 ratings — published 1962
The Mezzanine (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,952 ratings — published 1988
No One Is Talking About This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 3.55 — 58,062 ratings — published 2021
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,526,256 ratings — published 1969
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,077,617 ratings — published 2006
The Crown (The Selection, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 3.61 — 326,553 ratings — published 2016
Purple Little Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 3.65 — 403 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as purple)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,033,167 ratings — published 1999
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 4.06 — 140,102 ratings — published 2013
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 4.01 — 116,965 ratings — published 1979
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,761 ratings — published 2000
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 4.37 — 170,346 ratings — published 2019
Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 3.93 — 398,332 ratings — published 2023
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 4.11 — 575,708 ratings — published 2002
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,551,350 ratings — published 1915
Loveless (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 4.16 — 124,447 ratings — published 2020
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,580 ratings — published 1987
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as purple)
avg rating 4.18 — 233,568 ratings — published 2011
Remainder (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.67 — 8,782 ratings — published 2005
We Were Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,944 ratings — published 2026
Speedboat (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,086 ratings — published 1976
The Silentiary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.85 — 978 ratings — published 1964
Son of Nobody (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,183 ratings — published 2026
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Departure[s] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,262 ratings — published 2026
The Accidental (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.37 — 14,118 ratings — published 2005
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.69 — 101,896 ratings — published 1965
What We Can Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,939 ratings — published 2025
The Cold Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.42 — 2,717 ratings — published 2011
Grendel (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.69 — 43,500 ratings — published 1971
The Quick and the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,981 ratings — published 2000
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,912 ratings — published 2006
Tortilla Flat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.83 — 66,732 ratings — published 1935
History of Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as purple)
avg rating 3.40 — 29,766 ratings — published 2017
“I got presents as a kid. That stopped in my teens. The
small family gifts were gone. Replaced by dark humor
– "I got you the same thing as last year. But purple.”
― Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel
small family gifts were gone. Replaced by dark humor
– "I got you the same thing as last year. But purple.”
― Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel
“In spring, it is the dawn.
As the light gradually brightens the mountain edge,
slightly glowing -
with slender trails of clouds
tinted faintly purple.”
― The Pillow Book
As the light gradually brightens the mountain edge,
slightly glowing -
with slender trails of clouds
tinted faintly purple.”
― The Pillow Book
