110 books
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3 voters
Realism Books
Showing 1-50 of 12,637
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as realism)
avg rating 3.71 — 376,401 ratings — published 1856
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as realism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,088,523 ratings — published 1866
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 935,347 ratings — published 1878
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,905,901 ratings — published 1951
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,847,906 ratings — published 1937
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,071 ratings — published 1967
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as realism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,940,946 ratings — published 1925
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,742,080 ratings — published 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as realism)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,911,440 ratings — published 1960
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as realism)
avg rating 4.39 — 389,022 ratings — published 1880
Père Goriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 67,185 ratings — published 1835
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as realism)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,339,151 ratings — published 1885
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as realism)
avg rating 4.03 — 997,467 ratings — published 1939
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as realism)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,826,728 ratings — published 1813
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 876,376 ratings — published 1861
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as realism)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,612 ratings — published 2003
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 218,853 ratings — published 1869
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 367,065 ratings — published 1869
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as realism)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,008,481 ratings — published 1999
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as realism)
avg rating 4.04 — 179,783 ratings — published 1872
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as realism)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,752,878 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 34 times as realism)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,669,059 ratings — published 2005
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 226,578 ratings — published 1886
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,880,514 ratings — published 2018
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as realism)
avg rating 3.86 — 83,934 ratings — published 1830
Fathers and Sons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as realism)
avg rating 4.00 — 101,771 ratings — published 1862
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as realism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,413,172 ratings — published 1942
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,470,266 ratings — published 1868
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as realism)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,336,049 ratings — published 2005
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 845,701 ratings — published 1862
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,458,309 ratings — published 1997
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as realism)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,601,142 ratings — published 2003
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,015,131 ratings — published 2017
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 3.80 — 85,292 ratings — published 1881
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 551,183 ratings — published 2002
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 232,064 ratings — published 1864
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as realism)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,890,023 ratings — published 2005
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as realism)
avg rating 3.77 — 164,844 ratings — published 1879
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 4.28 — 936,125 ratings — published 2015
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,021,717 ratings — published 1876
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 3.88 — 428,961 ratings — published 1838
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as realism)
avg rating 4.30 — 321,814 ratings — published 1982
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,087,496 ratings — published 1847
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,261,974 ratings — published 2012
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,037,936 ratings — published 1992
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,319,094 ratings — published 1952
Eugénie Grandet (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,936 ratings — published 1833
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,332,652 ratings — published 1847
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as realism)
avg rating 3.87 — 949,241 ratings — published 1955
“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
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“...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.”
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