165 books
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154 voters
Story Books
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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as story)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,609,362 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as story)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,507,643 ratings — published 1943
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as story)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,610,224 ratings — published 1945
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as story)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,504,215 ratings — published 1997
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as story)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,532,539 ratings — published 1948
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as story)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,453,767 ratings — published 1915
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as story)
avg rating 4.39 — 392,435 ratings — published 1880
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as story)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,097,556 ratings — published 1866
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as story)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,967,814 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as story)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,853,233 ratings — published 1813
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as story)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,537,769 ratings — published 2003
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as story)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,519,106 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as story)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,753,312 ratings — published 2007
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as story)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,939,360 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as story)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,919,397 ratings — published 1951
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as story)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,326,135 ratings — published 1952
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as story)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,995,817 ratings — published 2008
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as story)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,761,046 ratings — published 2001
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as story)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,760,495 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 30 times as story)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,230,023 ratings — published 2000
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as story)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,114,872 ratings — published 1967
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as story)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,627 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as story)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,534,543 ratings — published 1998
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as story)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,094,322 ratings — published 1932
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as story)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,263 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as story)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,427,299 ratings — published 1942
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as story)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,489,796 ratings — published 1937
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as story)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,029,132 ratings — published 1979
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as story)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,902,133 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as story)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,823,925 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as story)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,889,308 ratings — published 1999
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as story)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,997,448 ratings — published 2014
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as story)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,861,221 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as story)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,137,310 ratings — published 2007
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as story)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,863,263 ratings — published 2003
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as story)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,303,491 ratings — published 2011
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as story)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,034,873 ratings — published 1844
Just After Sunset (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as story)
avg rating 3.88 — 60,867 ratings — published 2008
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as story)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,176,572 ratings — published 1954
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as story)
avg rating 4.21 — 220,592 ratings — published 1869
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as story)
avg rating 3.89 — 278,555 ratings — published 1869
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as story)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,204,609 ratings — published -800
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as story)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,224,955 ratings — published 1954
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,505,884 ratings — published 2020
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 3.86 — 274,350 ratings — published 1970
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,169,566 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,906,601 ratings — published 1890
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,871,705 ratings — published 1953
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as story)
avg rating 4.21 — 847,849 ratings — published 1862
“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.”
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