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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.90 — 316,883 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,516,922 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,784,705 ratings — published 1945
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,370,697 ratings — published 1952
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,126,121 ratings — published 1925
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.69 — 79,936 ratings — published 1984
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,942,418 ratings — published 1937
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.97 — 250,826 ratings — published 1981
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,978,677 ratings — published 1963
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,545,667 ratings — published 1915
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.34 — 296,242 ratings — published 1956
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,760 ratings — published 1958
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.06 — 134,297 ratings — published 1973
Speedboat (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,068 ratings — published 1976
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,596,439 ratings — published 1943
The Lathe of Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.12 — 94,946 ratings — published 1971
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,387 ratings — published 1958
The Loser (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,185 ratings — published 1983
Housekeeping (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.81 — 60,495 ratings — published 1980
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.66 — 406,825 ratings — published 2016
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.43 — 574,264 ratings — published 1899
Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 23 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,716 ratings — published 1973
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.06 — 385,094 ratings — published 1892
Dept. of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.75 — 65,207 ratings — published 2014
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.07 — 510,233 ratings — published 2021
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.65 — 451,333 ratings — published 2007
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,992,854 ratings — published 1890
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.96 — 24,068 ratings — published 1967
Jakob von Gunten (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,276 ratings — published 1909
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.69 — 233,203 ratings — published 1899
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,190 ratings — published 1994
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,989 ratings — published 1966
The Passion According to G.H. (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.11 — 22,946 ratings — published 1964
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,400,368 ratings — published 1956
In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,637 ratings — published 1968
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.47 — 141,861 ratings — published 1911
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.16 — 257,372 ratings — published 1864
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,683,702 ratings — published 1967
The Sense of an Ending (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.75 — 198,690 ratings — published 2011
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.09 — 961,782 ratings — published 1843
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,307,300 ratings — published 1954
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.77 — 373,548 ratings — published 1925
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.69 — 63,634 ratings — published 1961
Bonjour tristesse (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.74 — 81,643 ratings — published 1954
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.67 — 249,828 ratings — published 1984
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.14 — 256,053 ratings — published 1886
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.59 — 289,202 ratings — published 1947
Sleepless Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,538 ratings — published 1979
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.09 — 913,043 ratings — published 1922
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.69 — 101,706 ratings — published 1965
“Bells Screamed all off key, wrangling together as they collided in midair, horns and whistles mingled shrilly with cries of human distress; sulphur-colored light ex-ploded through the black windowpane and flashed away in darkness. Miranda waking from a dreamless sleep asked without expecting an answer, “What is happening?” for there was a bustle of voices and footsteps in the corridor, and a sharpness in the air; the far clamour went on, a furious exasperated shrieking like a mob in revolt.
The light came on, and Miss Tanner said in a furry voice, “Hear that? They’re celebrating . It’s the Armistice. The war is over, my dear.” Her hands trembled. She rattled a spoon in a cup, stopped to listen, held the cup out to Miranda. From the ward for old bedridden women down the hall floated a ragged chorus of cracked voices singing, “My country, ’tis of thee…”
Sweet land… oh terrible land of this bitter world where the sound of rejoicing was a clamour of pain, where ragged tuneless old women, sitting up waiting for their evening bowl of cocoa, were singing, “Sweet land of Liberty-”
“Oh, say, can you see?” their hopeless voices were asking next, the hammer strokes of metal tongues drowning them out. “The war is over,” said Miss Tanner, her underlap held firmly, her eyes blurred. Miranda said, “Please open the window, please, I smell death in here.”
― Pale Horse, Pale Rider
The light came on, and Miss Tanner said in a furry voice, “Hear that? They’re celebrating . It’s the Armistice. The war is over, my dear.” Her hands trembled. She rattled a spoon in a cup, stopped to listen, held the cup out to Miranda. From the ward for old bedridden women down the hall floated a ragged chorus of cracked voices singing, “My country, ’tis of thee…”
Sweet land… oh terrible land of this bitter world where the sound of rejoicing was a clamour of pain, where ragged tuneless old women, sitting up waiting for their evening bowl of cocoa, were singing, “Sweet land of Liberty-”
“Oh, say, can you see?” their hopeless voices were asking next, the hammer strokes of metal tongues drowning them out. “The war is over,” said Miss Tanner, her underlap held firmly, her eyes blurred. Miranda said, “Please open the window, please, I smell death in here.”
― Pale Horse, Pale Rider
“Elen sila lúmenn' omentielvo". <>.”
― El sueño de Berlín
― El sueño de Berlín
