49 books
—
2 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
World Lit Books
Showing 1-50 of 9,437
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,155 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,141,549 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,590,416 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,529,237 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,721,522 ratings — published 1988
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,803,839 ratings — published 2007
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,260,835 ratings — published -750
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,502,474 ratings — published 1942
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 559,937 ratings — published 1985
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 961,455 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,143,522 ratings — published 1866
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 342,727 ratings — published 1982
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 409,961 ratings — published 1879
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 564,182 ratings — published 1984
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,042 ratings — published 2013
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 338,850 ratings — published 1997
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,253 ratings — published -1800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 313,368 ratings — published 1605
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 424,465 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 505,091 ratings — published 2011
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,957 ratings — published 1868
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 444,523 ratings — published 1925
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 308,876 ratings — published 1759
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 908,874 ratings — published 1922
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 746,514 ratings — published 2001
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 323,831 ratings — published 1994
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,782,137 ratings — published 2001
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 537,044 ratings — published 1928
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 404,003 ratings — published 1989
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 387,327 ratings — published 1856
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 859,915 ratings — published 1862
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,072,260 ratings — published 1846
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,397,441 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,307,774 ratings — published 1947
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 404,961 ratings — published 1980
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,787 ratings — published 2003
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,890 ratings — published 1948
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 531,316 ratings — published -750
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 443,810 ratings — published 2007
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 417,184 ratings — published 1925
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,957 ratings — published 2006
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 571,590 ratings — published 2002
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,583,060 ratings — published 1943
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 239,455 ratings — published 2003
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 679,883 ratings — published 2017
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,514,032 ratings — published 2005
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 109,239 ratings — published 1955
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 355,249 ratings — published 1995
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 764,306 ratings — published 1987
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,568 ratings — published 1999
