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Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as realist)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,871,588 ratings — published 1937
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as realist)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,929,555 ratings — published 1951
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as realist)
avg rating 3.71 — 379,550 ratings — published 1856
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as realist)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,961,199 ratings — published 1960
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 3.52 — 502,929 ratings — published 2021
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,908,376 ratings — published 2018
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 3.77 — 362,199 ratings — published 1925
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,529,511 ratings — published 2003
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as realist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,004,018 ratings — published 1939
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 943,090 ratings — published 1878
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,911,587 ratings — published 2005
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,393,622 ratings — published 2022
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,988,629 ratings — published 1925
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,682,936 ratings — published 2018
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 3.83 — 616,293 ratings — published 2014
Paper Towns (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,500,752 ratings — published 2008
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.17 — 369,516 ratings — published 1869
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,266,415 ratings — published 2012
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,774,566 ratings — published 2012
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,438,451 ratings — published 1942
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.04 — 181,260 ratings — published 1872
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,104,419 ratings — published 1866
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as realist)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,873,056 ratings — published 1813
From the Jump (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.66 — 11,447 ratings — published 2022
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.36 — 201,246 ratings — published 2013
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.05 — 481,350 ratings — published 2011
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.18 — 145,713 ratings — published 2003
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,884,982 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,197,994 ratings — published 2017
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,481,899 ratings — published 2012
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.87 — 956,594 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.65 — 405,351 ratings — published 2007
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,194,454 ratings — published 1847
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,331,662 ratings — published 1952
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,631,052 ratings — published 1967
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,028,761 ratings — published 2007
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,205,419 ratings — published 2012
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,760,705 ratings — published 2005
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,027,447 ratings — published 1876
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.46 — 139,571 ratings — published 1911
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.21 — 221,958 ratings — published 1869
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.83 — 179,448 ratings — published 1914
The Mill on the Floss (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.84 — 59,544 ratings — published 1860
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.21 — 849,556 ratings — published 1862
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,343,549 ratings — published 1885
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,250,853 ratings — published 1963
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 4.39 — 395,313 ratings — published 1880
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as realist)
avg rating 3.80 — 880,916 ratings — published 1861
No Hard Feelings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as realist)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,250 ratings — published
Septology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as realist)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,570 ratings — published 2022
“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is.
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.
An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices.
When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.
Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.
An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices.
When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.
Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also. The Apostle Thomas said that he would not believe till he saw, but when he did see he said, "My Lord and my God!" Was it the miracle forced him to believe? Most likely not, but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart even when he said, "I do not believe till I see.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
