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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,740,929 ratings — published 2012
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,205,443 ratings — published 1947
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,007,970 ratings — published 1999
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,193 ratings — published 2007
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,482,496 ratings — published 2022
Paper Towns (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,494,679 ratings — published 2008
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,752,604 ratings — published 2005
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,871,247 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,014,881 ratings — published 2017
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,057,798 ratings — published 2011
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,261,823 ratings — published 2012
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,195,729 ratings — published 1996
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,201,968 ratings — published 2018
Fangirl (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.93 — 781,607 ratings — published 2013
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.41 — 811,367 ratings — published 2016
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,889,327 ratings — published 2005
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,198,152 ratings — published 2012
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,029,141 ratings — published 2009
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.07 — 869,621 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,187 ratings — published 1956
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,367,227 ratings — published 2005
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.14 — 461,510 ratings — published 1995
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.05 — 632,756 ratings — published 1999
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 32 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.86 — 514,143 ratings — published 2011
Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.96 — 465,035 ratings — published 2010
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.83 — 578,081 ratings — published 2023
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,641,638 ratings — published 2016
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.91 — 969,231 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,504,805 ratings — published 2003
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.40 — 331,512 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,909,695 ratings — published 1960
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.11 — 630,088 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,806,785 ratings — published 2012
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,846,569 ratings — published 2006
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.23 — 603,229 ratings — published 2021
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,408,104 ratings — published 2014
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,910,769 ratings — published 2021
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 — 1,062,981 ratings — published 2014
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.49 — 810,367 ratings — published 2016
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,238 ratings — published 2003
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.07 — 262,355 ratings — published 2006
Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.07 — 229,287 ratings — published 2012
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,172,127 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.09 — 732,023 ratings — published 1966
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.00 — 708,473 ratings — published 2011
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.69 — 412,739 ratings — published 2010
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,129,305 ratings — published 2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.13 — 806,922 ratings — published 2010
Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as real-life)
avg rating 3.97 — 305,708 ratings — published 2011
Along for the Ride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as real-life)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,242 ratings — published 2009
“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
“You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”
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