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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,632 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,152,799 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,613,880 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,562,941 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,757,704 ratings — published 1988
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,287,429 ratings — published -800
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,529,533 ratings — published 1942
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,821,158 ratings — published 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 563,324 ratings — published 1985
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 968,960 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,159,938 ratings — published 1866
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 348,459 ratings — published 1982
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 415,646 ratings — published 1879
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 569,487 ratings — published 1984
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,758 ratings — published 2013
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 342,302 ratings — published 1997
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,454 ratings — published -1800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,747 ratings — published 1605
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 429,240 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 515,532 ratings — published 2011
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 451,002 ratings — published 1925
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 378,382 ratings — published 1868
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 917,357 ratings — published 1922
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 310,556 ratings — published 1759
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 326,084 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 — 753,444 ratings — published 2001
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,788,592 ratings — published 2001
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 866,017 ratings — published 1862
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,085,144 ratings — published 1846
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 541,076 ratings — published 1928
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 405,751 ratings — published 1989
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 390,256 ratings — published 1856
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,403,874 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,334,384 ratings — published 1947
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 407,431 ratings — published 1980
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 459,342 ratings — published 2007
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,295 ratings — published 2003
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,235 ratings — published 1948
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,733 ratings — published -750
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 422,617 ratings — published 1925
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 192,880 ratings — published 2006
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 577,369 ratings — published 2002
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 111,744 ratings — published 1955
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,610,435 ratings — published 1943
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 241,521 ratings — published 2003
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,529,639 ratings — published 2005
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 693,958 ratings — published 2017
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 364,654 ratings — published 1995
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 773,375 ratings — published 1987
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 211,685 ratings — published 1999
