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Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,315,269 ratings — published 1954
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.40 — 414,801 ratings — published 1879
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,525,897 ratings — published 1942
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,314,561 ratings — published 1963
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.10 — 568,760 ratings — published 1984
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.33 — 309,492 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.85 — 913,443 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,951,182 ratings — published 1937
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,807,893 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,762,861 ratings — published 1949
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,012,017 ratings — published 1951
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.14 — 222,130 ratings — published 2024
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,559,404 ratings — published 1915
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.34 — 300,939 ratings — published 1956
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.99 — 443,468 ratings — published 2019
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,157,578 ratings — published 1866
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,280,876 ratings — published 2012
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.46 — 724,556 ratings — published 1952
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,752,894 ratings — published 1988
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.37 — 938,293 ratings — published 1946
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,121,999 ratings — published 1960
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,002,130 ratings — published 1818
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.03 — 703,102 ratings — published 1995
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.16 — 259,868 ratings — published 1864
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,010,353 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.59 — 621,618 ratings — published 2018
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,998,672 ratings — published 2018
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,634,045 ratings — published 2003
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,493,887 ratings — published 2017
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,560,391 ratings — published 1985
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.50 — 189,664 ratings — published 2013
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,069,697 ratings — published 2014
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,978,483 ratings — published 2005
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,273,902 ratings — published 1997
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,002,589 ratings — published 1890
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.07 — 485,645 ratings — published 2012
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,527,713 ratings — published 1969
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,151,430 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,610,699 ratings — published 2003
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.93 — 421,852 ratings — published 1925
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,440,826 ratings — published 2024
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.41 — 853,042 ratings — published 2016
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,973,619 ratings — published 2018
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.11 — 967,885 ratings — published 1878
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.25 — 843,666 ratings — published 1966
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,141,740 ratings — published 1925
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.84 — 228,780 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.99 — 514,344 ratings — published 1987
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,027,689 ratings — published 1939
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-human-condition)
avg rating 3.98 — 772,168 ratings — published 1987
“Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.”
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“But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker, I knew equally well. And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations