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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,173,069 ratings — published 2015
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,503,349 ratings — published 2012
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,956,578 ratings — published 2021
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,547,215 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,553,490 ratings — published 1998
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,834,413 ratings — published 2013
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,019,771 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,911,921 ratings — published 1999
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.57 — 782,212 ratings — published 2016
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,626,057 ratings — published 2014
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.05 — 405,044 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 22 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,247,977 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 21 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,695,895 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,150,766 ratings — published 2007
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.15 — 761,200 ratings — published 2023
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,995 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 20 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,839,567 ratings — published 2003
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,822,151 ratings — published 2019
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,761,677 ratings — published 1996
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,245,946 ratings — published 2019
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,182,747 ratings — published 2020
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,463,685 ratings — published 2015
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.23 — 464,743 ratings — published 2013
Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.17 — 417,351 ratings — published 2024
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.97 — 911,204 ratings — published 2016
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,706,525 ratings — published 2009
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,185,383 ratings — published 2007
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,551,826 ratings — published 2020
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.40 — 407,838 ratings — published 2014
It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.89 — 725,334 ratings — published 2021
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.00 — 408,859 ratings — published 2019
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.09 — 265,138 ratings — published 2016
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,010,824 ratings — published 2006
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.22 — 222,061 ratings — published 2013
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,111,164 ratings — published 2011
Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.05 — 335,770 ratings — published 2024
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.06 — 698,078 ratings — published 2021
A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #5)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,151,363 ratings — published 2021
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.63 — 1,283,104 ratings — published 2016
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.41 — 313,999 ratings — published 2015
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,876,675 ratings — published 1813
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,000,423 ratings — published 2008
Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.93 — 361,459 ratings — published 2023
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.03 — 340,676 ratings — published 2022
Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.87 — 452,183 ratings — published 2022
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,223,197 ratings — published 2020
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 3.87 — 503,286 ratings — published 2018
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.32 — 423,311 ratings — published 2016
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.04 — 186,916 ratings — published 2015
Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as third-person)
avg rating 4.25 — 182,665 ratings — published 2014
“In these THREE years, I realized THREE things
time is some how related to distance.
distance changes everything and time teaches everything.
people trust THIRD person more than themselves.”
―
time is some how related to distance.
distance changes everything and time teaches everything.
people trust THIRD person more than themselves.”
―
“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume)
NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom had a vice. He wrote about himself. Not only would he describe the events he saw, but his own small effect on events. This irritated critics. They spoke of ego trips and the unattractive dimensions of his narcissism. Such criticism did not hurt too much. He had already had a love affair with himself, and it used up a good deal of love. He was no longer so pleased with his presence. His daily reactions bored him. They were becoming like everyone else’s. His mind, he noticed, was beginning to spin its wheels, sometimes seeming to repeat itself for the sheer slavishness of supporting mediocre habits. If he was now wondering what name he ought to use for his piece about the fight, it was out of no excess of literary ego. More, indeed, from concern for the reader’s attention. It would hardly be congenial to follow a long piece of prose if the narrator appeared only as an abstraction: The Writer, The Traveler, The Interviewer. That is unhappy in much the way one would not wish to live with a woman for years and think of her as The Wife.
Nonetheless, Norman was certainly feeling modest on his return to New York and thought he might as well use his first name — everybody in the fight game did. Indeed, his head was so determinedly empty that the alternative was to do a piece without a name. Never had his wisdom appeared more invisible to him and that is a fair condition for acquiring an anonymous voice.”
― The Fight
NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom had a vice. He wrote about himself. Not only would he describe the events he saw, but his own small effect on events. This irritated critics. They spoke of ego trips and the unattractive dimensions of his narcissism. Such criticism did not hurt too much. He had already had a love affair with himself, and it used up a good deal of love. He was no longer so pleased with his presence. His daily reactions bored him. They were becoming like everyone else’s. His mind, he noticed, was beginning to spin its wheels, sometimes seeming to repeat itself for the sheer slavishness of supporting mediocre habits. If he was now wondering what name he ought to use for his piece about the fight, it was out of no excess of literary ego. More, indeed, from concern for the reader’s attention. It would hardly be congenial to follow a long piece of prose if the narrator appeared only as an abstraction: The Writer, The Traveler, The Interviewer. That is unhappy in much the way one would not wish to live with a woman for years and think of her as The Wife.
Nonetheless, Norman was certainly feeling modest on his return to New York and thought he might as well use his first name — everybody in the fight game did. Indeed, his head was so determinedly empty that the alternative was to do a piece without a name. Never had his wisdom appeared more invisible to him and that is a fair condition for acquiring an anonymous voice.”
― The Fight
