167 books
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World Lit Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 412,612 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,105,009 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,493,762 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,427,889 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,570,076 ratings — published 1988
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,735,636 ratings — published 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 547,007 ratings — published 1985
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,401,449 ratings — published 1942
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 931,711 ratings — published 1878
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,192,779 ratings — published -800
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 544,093 ratings — published 1984
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 325,458 ratings — published 1997
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 412,624 ratings — published 2013
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,080,759 ratings — published 1866
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 319,787 ratings — published 1982
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 386,520 ratings — published 1880
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 305,318 ratings — published 1615
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,050 ratings — published -2000
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 403,157 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 468,318 ratings — published 2011
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 877,188 ratings — published 1922
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 301,567 ratings — published 1759
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 720,056 ratings — published 2001
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 365,881 ratings — published 1869
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 314,908 ratings — published 1994
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 420,524 ratings — published 1967
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,753,826 ratings — published 2001
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,023,717 ratings — published 1844
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 520,363 ratings — published 1928
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 394,867 ratings — published 1989
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,364,078 ratings — published 1956
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 395,608 ratings — published 1980
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 374,913 ratings — published 1856
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 843,878 ratings — published 1862
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,589 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,193,192 ratings — published 1947
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,090 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 183,495 ratings — published 2006
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 395,332 ratings — published 1925
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 509,687 ratings — published -800
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,478,411 ratings — published 1943
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 230,563 ratings — published 2003
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,447,766 ratings — published 2005
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 381,644 ratings — published 2007
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 548,606 ratings — published 2002
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 624,892 ratings — published 2017
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 338,510 ratings — published 1995
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 132,946 ratings — published 1981
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 223,715 ratings — published 1886
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 729,541 ratings — published 1987









