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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,898,842 ratings — published 2012
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,344,505 ratings — published 1947
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,636,433 ratings — published 2022
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,080,344 ratings — published 1999
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,990 ratings — published 2007
Paper Towns (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,523,832 ratings — published 2008
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,790,828 ratings — published 2005
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,986,315 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,046,545 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,284,490 ratings — published 2012
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,075,823 ratings — published 2011
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,228,880 ratings — published 1996
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,249,947 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,988,814 ratings — published 2005
Fangirl (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.93 — 792,269 ratings — published 2013
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.41 — 857,968 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.07 — 891,711 ratings — published 2012
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,105,692 ratings — published 2009
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,415,703 ratings — published 2005
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.14 — 468,314 ratings — published 1995
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.06 — 646,008 ratings — published 1999
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,407,755 ratings — published 2012
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,228,158 ratings — published 2012
Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.95 — 467,691 ratings — published 2010
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 31 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.86 — 518,767 ratings — published 2011
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.83 — 598,947 ratings — published 2023
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,852,800 ratings — published 2016
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.91 — 981,496 ratings — published 2009
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,145,097 ratings — published 1960
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,622,847 ratings — published 2003
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,489,880 ratings — published 2014
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 345,656 ratings — published 2017
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.11 — 645,306 ratings — published 2015
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,872,909 ratings — published 2006
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,196,816 ratings — published 2021
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.22 — 651,722 ratings — published 2021
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,851,735 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.48 — 852,879 ratings — published 2016
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,105,943 ratings — published 2014
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.07 — 264,980 ratings — published 2006
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.09 — 759,003 ratings — published 1966
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.00 — 785,453 ratings — published 2003
Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.07 — 229,869 ratings — published 2012
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.99 — 713,158 ratings — published 2011
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.69 — 416,112 ratings — published 2010
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,468,169 ratings — published 2017
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,223,885 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.13 — 831,517 ratings — published 2010
Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.96 — 308,135 ratings — published 2011
Along for the Ride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,015 ratings — published 2009
“Wigmore turned towards the window. A column of armoured vehicles was making its way down the Mall towards Buckingham Palace. As he watched, he cursed himself for not remaining at the hotel. He looked at Merlin. ‘Very well. Go ahead with your bloody questions.”
― Death of an Officer
― Death of an Officer
“The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
