120 books
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169 voters
Realist Books
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Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as realist)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,891,298 ratings — published 1937
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as realist)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,952,236 ratings — published 1951
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as realist)
avg rating 3.71 — 382,283 ratings — published 1856
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as realist)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,002,087 ratings — published 1960
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 3.52 — 507,168 ratings — published 2021
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,931,060 ratings — published 2018
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,027,514 ratings — published 1925
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,711,108 ratings — published 2018
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 3.77 — 365,460 ratings — published 1925
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,550,036 ratings — published 2003
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,801,474 ratings — published 2012
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,009,874 ratings — published 1939
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 4.11 — 949,349 ratings — published 1878
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,929,536 ratings — published 2005
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,414,167 ratings — published 2022
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 3.83 — 619,340 ratings — published 2014
Paper Towns (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,505,894 ratings — published 2008
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.17 — 371,927 ratings — published 1869
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,270,612 ratings — published 2012
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,460,027 ratings — published 1942
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.04 — 182,836 ratings — published 1872
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,117,301 ratings — published 1866
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,908,412 ratings — published 1813
From the Jump (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.66 — 11,524 ratings — published 2022
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.36 — 203,941 ratings — published 2013
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.05 — 488,929 ratings — published 2011
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.18 — 147,187 ratings — published 2003
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,902,914 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,251,233 ratings — published 2017
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,501,258 ratings — published 2012
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.87 — 962,846 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.65 — 419,486 ratings — published 2007
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,227,833 ratings — published 1847
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,342,539 ratings — published 1952
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,647,014 ratings — published 1967
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,031,145 ratings — published 2007
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,210,802 ratings — published 2012
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,767,520 ratings — published 2005
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,032,136 ratings — published 1876
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.46 — 140,289 ratings — published 1911
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.21 — 224,585 ratings — published 1869
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.83 — 181,137 ratings — published 1914
The Mill on the Floss (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.84 — 59,813 ratings — published 1860
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.21 — 853,350 ratings — published 1862
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,345,331 ratings — published 1885
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,266,741 ratings — published 1963
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.39 — 400,594 ratings — published 1880
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.80 — 884,750 ratings — published 1861
No Hard Feelings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as realist)
avg rating 3.70 — 12,702 ratings — published 2022
Septology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as realist)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,684 ratings — published 2022
“We must become realists to appreciate miracles.”
― Hey Humanity
― Hey Humanity
“You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.”
― Hollow City
― Hollow City








