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Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.68 — 340,217 ratings — published 1719
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.87 — 983,356 ratings — published 1955
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.80 — 898,036 ratings — published 1861
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.71 — 391,784 ratings — published 1856
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,168,338 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 — 1,356,391 ratings — published 1885
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.14 — 57,402 ratings — published 1931
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,110 ratings — published 1927
The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.17 — 156 ratings — published 2010
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,027,753 ratings — published 1815
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.28 — 1,715 ratings — published 1357
The Novel: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.19 — 196 ratings — published 2014
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.81 — 227,644 ratings — published 1927
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.99 — 517,682 ratings — published 1987
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 3.92 — 46,806 ratings — published 2017
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.15 — 814,059 ratings — published 1817
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.89 — 83,847 ratings — published 2010
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,002 ratings — published 2018
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.28 — 454,225 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,873,790 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,074,054 ratings — published 1999
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.00 — 117,668 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,384 ratings — published 1983
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.05 — 188,672 ratings — published 1872
The General in His Labyrinth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.70 — 26,906 ratings — published 1989
The Book of Daniel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,092 ratings — published 1971
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,955 ratings — published 1919
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,493 ratings — published 1973
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.20 — 51 ratings — published 2013
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,646 ratings — published 1987
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,533,342 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 — 67,684 ratings — published 1997
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.92 — 316,299 ratings — published 1605
The Tunnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,296 ratings — published 1995
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.19 — 367,021 ratings — published 1995
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.10 — 571,899 ratings — published 1984
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.14 — 408,692 ratings — published 1980
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,167,067 ratings — published 1925
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,468 ratings — published 1996
Darconville's Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.27 — 633 ratings — published 1981
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,234 ratings — published 1937
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.78 — 513,417 ratings — published 1926
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-novel)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,163,263 ratings — published 1932
Pleasantville (Jay Porter, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,618 ratings — published 2015
Black Water Rising (Jay Porter, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,910 ratings — published 2009
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,165 ratings — published 1969
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,940 ratings — published 1935
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-novel)
avg rating 4.53 — 32,090 ratings — published 1974
“Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.”
― The Din In The Head: Spirited Essays on Great Literature, Wit, and the Curative Power of Imagination
― The Din In The Head: Spirited Essays on Great Literature, Wit, and the Curative Power of Imagination
“If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.”
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