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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,258 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,161,549 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,632,310 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,583,405 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,786,145 ratings — published 1988
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,553,118 ratings — published 1942
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,300,858 ratings — published -800
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,835,890 ratings — published 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 566,324 ratings — published 1985
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 975,405 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,174,493 ratings — published 1866
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 421,355 ratings — published 1879
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 353,018 ratings — published 1982
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 573,757 ratings — published 1984
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,894 ratings — published 2013
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 345,291 ratings — published 1997
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,337 ratings — published 2016
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 125,472 ratings — published -1800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 317,263 ratings — published 1605
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 523,073 ratings — published 2011
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 456,838 ratings — published 1967
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 924,363 ratings — published 1922
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 315,479 ratings — published 1759
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 380,762 ratings — published 1868
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 327,995 ratings — published 1994
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 759,855 ratings — published 2001
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,793,557 ratings — published 2001
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,096,064 ratings — published 1846
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 544,959 ratings — published 1928
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 407,422 ratings — published 1989
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 393,018 ratings — published 1856
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,411,329 ratings — published 2012
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 869,517 ratings — published 1862
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 409,740 ratings — published 1980
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,695 ratings — published 2003
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 472,796 ratings — published 2007
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,631 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,356,171 ratings — published 1947
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 542,682 ratings — published -750
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,443 ratings — published 2006
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 582,284 ratings — published 2002
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 428,258 ratings — published 1925
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,631,259 ratings — published 1943
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 243,527 ratings — published 2003
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 707,711 ratings — published 2017
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 114,183 ratings — published 1955
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 368,642 ratings — published 1995
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,543,146 ratings — published 2005
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 780,701 ratings — published 1987
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 212,495 ratings — published 1999
