49 books
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2 voters
World Lit Books
Showing 1-50 of 9,398
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,495 ratings — published 1958
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,132,552 ratings — published 1967
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,566,080 ratings — published 2003
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,503,896 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,684,691 ratings — published 1988
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,785,932 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,477,652 ratings — published 1942
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,230,304 ratings — published -700
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 556,019 ratings — published 1985
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 954,390 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,127,593 ratings — published 1866
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 336,456 ratings — published 1982
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 559,023 ratings — published 1984
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 404,389 ratings — published 1879
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 335,274 ratings — published 1997
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,481 ratings — published 2013
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,019 ratings — published -1800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 311,934 ratings — published 1605
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,250 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 494,881 ratings — published 2011
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 373,643 ratings — published 1868
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 438,551 ratings — published 1967
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 900,605 ratings — published 1922
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 307,217 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 — 740,083 ratings — published 2001
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 321,430 ratings — published 1994
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,774,953 ratings — published 2001
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,059,305 ratings — published 1846
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 533,083 ratings — published 1928
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 402,177 ratings — published 1989
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 384,262 ratings — published 1856
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,390,367 ratings — published 1956
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 855,991 ratings — published 1862
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 402,724 ratings — published 1980
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,572 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,279,205 ratings — published 1947
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 524,762 ratings — published -750
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 148,239 ratings — published 2003
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 429,152 ratings — published 2007
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 411,951 ratings — published 1925
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 189,150 ratings — published 2006
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 565,582 ratings — published 2002
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,555,759 ratings — published 1943
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 237,051 ratings — published 2003
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 665,805 ratings — published 2017
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,497,913 ratings — published 2005
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 350,895 ratings — published 1995
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 755,485 ratings — published 1987
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,328 ratings — published 1999
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,299 ratings — published 1981










