629 books
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583 voters
Story Books
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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as story)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,570,705 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as story)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,478,890 ratings — published 1943
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as story)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,553,402 ratings — published 1945
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as story)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,416,858 ratings — published 1997
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as story)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,463,585 ratings — published 1949
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as story)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,428,276 ratings — published 1915
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as story)
avg rating 4.39 — 386,611 ratings — published 1880
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as story)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,918,429 ratings — published 1925
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as story)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,081,003 ratings — published 1866
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as story)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,524,103 ratings — published 2003
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as story)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,804,576 ratings — published 1813
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as story)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,494,202 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as story)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,735,912 ratings — published 2007
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as story)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,887,474 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as story)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,894,730 ratings — published 1951
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as story)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,913,499 ratings — published 2008
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as story)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,753,981 ratings — published 2001
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as story)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,313,256 ratings — published 1952
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 30 times as story)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,194,294 ratings — published 2000
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as story)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,725,317 ratings — published 2012
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as story)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,529 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as story)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,494,231 ratings — published 1998
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as story)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,077,665 ratings — published 1932
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as story)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,105,163 ratings — published 1967
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as story)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,220 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as story)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,401,846 ratings — published 1942
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as story)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,016,274 ratings — published 1979
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as story)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,879,767 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as story)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,795,580 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as story)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,842,405 ratings — published 1999
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as story)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,456,423 ratings — published 1937
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as story)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,976,279 ratings — published 2014
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as story)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,836,811 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as story)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,110,272 ratings — published 2007
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as story)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,857,926 ratings — published 2003
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as story)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,286,010 ratings — published 2011
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as story)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,151,039 ratings — published 1954
Just After Sunset (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as story)
avg rating 3.88 — 60,551 ratings — published 2008
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as story)
avg rating 4.21 — 217,547 ratings — published 1869
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as story)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,023,901 ratings — published 1844
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as story)
avg rating 3.89 — 276,598 ratings — published 1869
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as story)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,192,971 ratings — published -800
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,458,791 ratings — published 2020
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 3.86 — 272,756 ratings — published 1970
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,879,668 ratings — published 1890
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,838,386 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as story)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,201,307 ratings — published 1954
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as story)
avg rating 4.21 — 843,957 ratings — published 1862
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as story)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,125,521 ratings — published 1954
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane












