49 books
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World Lit Books
Showing 1-50 of 9,244
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 415,558 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,114,306 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,517,570 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,452,101 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,607,007 ratings — published 1988
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,752,209 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,425,638 ratings — published 1942
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 549,970 ratings — published 1985
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,203,912 ratings — published -800
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 939,297 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,096,547 ratings — published 1866
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 549,111 ratings — published 1984
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 415,677 ratings — published 2013
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 323,974 ratings — published 1982
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 392,058 ratings — published 1880
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 328,408 ratings — published 1997
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,093 ratings — published -2000
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,492 ratings — published 1615
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 476,836 ratings — published 2011
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 408,557 ratings — published 2016
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 884,834 ratings — published 1922
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 303,566 ratings — published 1759
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,308 ratings — published 1869
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 726,809 ratings — published 2001
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 426,526 ratings — published 1967
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 316,980 ratings — published 1994
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,760,611 ratings — published 2001
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,034,339 ratings — published 1844
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 523,520 ratings — published 1928
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 397,158 ratings — published 1989
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,372,887 ratings — published 1956
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 847,618 ratings — published 1862
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 397,808 ratings — published 1980
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 377,980 ratings — published 1856
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,890 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,221,083 ratings — published 1947
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 144,780 ratings — published 2003
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 514,063 ratings — published -800
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 185,279 ratings — published 2006
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 397,069 ratings — published 2007
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 400,752 ratings — published 1925
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,505,991 ratings — published 1943
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,465,227 ratings — published 2005
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 553,895 ratings — published 2002
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 232,334 ratings — published 2003
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 637,364 ratings — published 2017
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 342,601 ratings — published 1995
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,562 ratings — published 1981
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 22 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 161,035 ratings — published 2009
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 229,620 ratings — published 1886










