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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 383,017 ratings — published 1892
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,503,387 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as short)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,772,840 ratings — published 1945
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as short)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,530,219 ratings — published 1915
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as short)
avg rating 4.07 — 504,590 ratings — published 2021
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as short)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,364,649 ratings — published 1952
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as short)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,931,853 ratings — published 1937
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as short)
avg rating 4.14 — 252,304 ratings — published 1886
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as short)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,583,977 ratings — published 1943
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 403,650 ratings — published 2017
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as short)
avg rating 3.66 — 403,756 ratings — published 2016
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as short)
avg rating 3.90 — 314,856 ratings — published 1962
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as short)
avg rating 4.06 — 429,434 ratings — published 1848
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 205,025 ratings — published 2021
Foster (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as short)
avg rating 4.30 — 196,514 ratings — published 2010
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as short)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,722,799 ratings — published 1988
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as short)
avg rating 4.04 — 664,913 ratings — published 1995
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as short)
avg rating 4.03 — 118,451 ratings — published 1948
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as short)
avg rating 4.34 — 290,700 ratings — published 1956
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 151 times as short)
avg rating 3.82 — 369,036 ratings — published 2019
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,964,533 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,107,046 ratings — published 1925
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 103,170 ratings — published 2011
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 277,637 ratings — published 1929
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as short)
avg rating 3.83 — 691,993 ratings — published 1886
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 339,932 ratings — published 2012
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as short)
avg rating 4.16 — 254,392 ratings — published 1864
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 132 times as short)
avg rating 4.37 — 57,225 ratings — published 1973
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as short)
avg rating 3.86 — 223,244 ratings — published 1872
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 444,298 ratings — published 2007
Chess Story (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 190,829 ratings — published 1942
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as short)
avg rating 4.09 — 909,149 ratings — published 1922
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
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avg rating 4.24 — 130,586 ratings — published 1843
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 107 times as short)
avg rating 3.93 — 132,015 ratings — published 2013
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as short)
avg rating 3.58 — 287,144 ratings — published 1947
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as short)
avg rating 4.09 — 959,836 ratings — published 1843
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as short)
avg rating 3.98 — 93,924 ratings — published 2021
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as short)
avg rating 3.89 — 47,680 ratings — published 2020
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)
by (shelved 97 times as short)
avg rating 4.29 — 40,110 ratings — published 2022
The Grownup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 158,577 ratings — published 2014
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as short)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,397,638 ratings — published 1956
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as short)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,618 ratings — published 1999
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as short)
avg rating 4.27 — 131,868 ratings — published 1929
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 414,519 ratings — published 1895
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as short)
avg rating 3.89 — 578,449 ratings — published 1895
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 93 times as short)
avg rating 4.24 — 232,702 ratings — published 2018
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as short)
avg rating 3.43 — 572,756 ratings — published 1899
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,297,541 ratings — published 1954
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as short)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,273 ratings — published 1958
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 248,486 ratings — published 1984
“On Earth I was short, at just an inch under five foot, but here I'm positively squat. I'm a footstool. A cute, fluffy little human footstool that no one takes very seriously.”
― Worse Guy
― Worse Guy
“Our existence is never defined by the smallness of our being or the shortness of our life, for neither are the sum total of our limitations nor the definition of our existence.”
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