49 books
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World Lit Books
Showing 1-50 of 9,314
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,022 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,124,998 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,545,221 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,480,577 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,652,975 ratings — published 1988
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,771,817 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,454,941 ratings — published 1942
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,217,665 ratings — published -800
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 553,519 ratings — published 1985
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 947,869 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,115,186 ratings — published 1866
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 330,248 ratings — published 1982
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 554,938 ratings — published 1984
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,398 ratings — published 1880
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,131 ratings — published 2013
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 332,348 ratings — published 1997
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,233 ratings — published -1800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 309,880 ratings — published 1605
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 487,142 ratings — published 2011
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 414,867 ratings — published 2016
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 893,922 ratings — published 1922
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 305,640 ratings — published 1759
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 371,361 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 — 734,748 ratings — published 2001
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 433,567 ratings — published 1967
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 319,582 ratings — published 1994
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,768,793 ratings — published 2001
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,048,284 ratings — published 1846
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 529,340 ratings — published 1928
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 400,347 ratings — published 1989
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,157 ratings — published 1956
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 852,495 ratings — published 1862
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 400,647 ratings — published 1980
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 381,608 ratings — published 1856
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,281 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,254,281 ratings — published 1947
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 146,861 ratings — published 2003
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 416,358 ratings — published 2007
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 520,551 ratings — published -800
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 187,570 ratings — published 2006
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,229 ratings — published 1925
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 560,141 ratings — published 2002
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,535,183 ratings — published 1943
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 234,963 ratings — published 2003
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,484,737 ratings — published 2005
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 653,400 ratings — published 2017
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 347,463 ratings — published 1995
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 748,231 ratings — published 1987
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 208,380 ratings — published 1999
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 134,593 ratings — published 1981










