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Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.68 — 332,176 ratings — published 1719
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.87 — 948,873 ratings — published 1955
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.80 — 876,188 ratings — published 1861
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.71 — 376,249 ratings — published 1856
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,087,814 ratings — published 1866
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,338,947 ratings — published 1885
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.14 — 53,874 ratings — published 1931
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,960 ratings — published 1927
The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.14 — 151 ratings — published 2010
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,292 ratings — published 1615
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.05 — 987,010 ratings — published 1815
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,648 ratings — published 1357
The Novel: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.20 — 194 ratings — published 2014
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.81 — 215,689 ratings — published 1927
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,373 ratings — published 1987
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,586,955 ratings — published 1988
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.76 — 67 ratings — published 1987
The Marrow Thieves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.94 — 44,257 ratings — published 2017
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.15 — 780,146 ratings — published 1817
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,028 ratings — published 2010
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,322 ratings — published 2018
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.28 — 423,037 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,454,467 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,862,342 ratings — published 1999
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,576,943 ratings — published 1945
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.01 — 112,444 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,153 ratings — published 1983
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.04 — 179,728 ratings — published 1872
The General in His Labyrinth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.69 — 25,991 ratings — published 1989
The Book of Daniel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,960 ratings — published 1971
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.84 — 37,053 ratings — published 1919
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,413 ratings — published 1973
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.12 — 48 ratings — published 2013
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.86 — 87,243 ratings — published 1987
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,261 ratings — published 1969
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.40 — 65,029 ratings — published 1997
The Tunnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,010 ratings — published 1995
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.18 — 340,290 ratings — published 1995
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.11 — 546,276 ratings — published 1984
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.14 — 396,550 ratings — published 1980
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,938,911 ratings — published 1925
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.25 — 101,818 ratings — published 1996
Darconville's Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.27 — 615 ratings — published 1981
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,727 ratings — published 1937
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.79 — 495,405 ratings — published 1926
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,084,579 ratings — published 1932
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악당만 취급합니다 [Agdangman Chwigeubhabnida] (I Only Treat Villains)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 3.48 — 29 ratings — published 2021
Not Quite Dead Yet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 4.04 — 143,312 ratings — published 2025
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,035 ratings — published 2011
The White Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,114 ratings — published 2019
“Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher’s stone, it sublimates, precipitates, and quickens. House of Keys, it opens all our darkest doors. May the Pol Pot Persons of all genders and denominations take heed: to create a fictional world with rigor and passion, to imagine a character of any sex, place, time, or color and make it palpitate and quiver, to catapult it into the deepest forests of our most luminous reveries, is to commit an act of empathy. To write a novel of the imagination is a gesture of tenderness; to enter the body of a book is a fearless act and generous.”
― The Monstrous and the Marvelous
― The Monstrous and the Marvelous
“Writing a novel is a bit like making a sword. First, you take all the raw material and melt it down in a crucible, then you take it to the anvil and hammer out as many of the impurities as possible before folding and turning the whole thing over on itself and hammering it out again. The more often you can fold it over and incorporate another layer the stronger it will be. Finally, put an edge on it, give it a handle to show to the world, and the job's done. The result should be something flexible and elegant; perfectly balanced, of suitable length and, above all with a point to it.”
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