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World Literature Books
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,119 ratings — published 1967
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 170 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,484 ratings — published 1958
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,086,083 ratings — published 1866
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,409,356 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,436,295 ratings — published 1915
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,020 ratings — published 1615
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,582,805 ratings — published 1988
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,501,932 ratings — published 2003
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 934,177 ratings — published 1878
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,196,361 ratings — published -800
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,487,808 ratings — published 1943
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 548,015 ratings — published 1985
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 388,198 ratings — published 1880
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 511,082 ratings — published -800
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 397,106 ratings — published 1925
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 845,129 ratings — published 1862
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 326,406 ratings — published 1997
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 545,713 ratings — published 1984
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 375,896 ratings — published 1856
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,741,114 ratings — published 2007
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 366,698 ratings — published 1869
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,415 ratings — published -2000
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 422,424 ratings — published 1967
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,484,843 ratings — published 2020
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 879,748 ratings — published 1922
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,570,889 ratings — published 1945
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.14 — 396,295 ratings — published 1980
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,027,049 ratings — published 1844
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.76 — 302,210 ratings — published 1759
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 521,418 ratings — published 1928
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 550,371 ratings — published 2002
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,201,868 ratings — published 1947
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 218,408 ratings — published 1869
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 316,046 ratings — published 1947
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 172,917 ratings — published 1320
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 732,312 ratings — published 1987
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.30 — 321,146 ratings — published 1982
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 219,360 ratings — published 1831
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Vintage International)
by (shelved 52 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,169 ratings — published 1981
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 948,053 ratings — published 1955
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 61,502 ratings — published 1998
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,756,159 ratings — published 2001
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,819,521 ratings — published 1813
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 206,697 ratings — published 1321
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 339,836 ratings — published 1995
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,902,359 ratings — published 1951
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 722,301 ratings — published 2001
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,317,201 ratings — published 1952
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,154 ratings — published 1981
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,903,788 ratings — published 1960
“…The time machine quietly disintegrated with leprosy of unsaid hurts and accusations that peeled back skin, muscle, and bone, snapping off love’s digits, fingers, arms, and legs in agonizing screams …”
― Mechanical Bull
― Mechanical Bull
“Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength
and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth
to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable
for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth
to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable
for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
