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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 24670 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,119,844 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24664 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,686,501 ratings — published 1949
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 22469 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,304,115 ratings — published 1925
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20687 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,164,781 ratings — published 1945
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 20064 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 8,218,608 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 19147 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,039,860 ratings — published 1951
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 18506 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,184,824 ratings — published 2008
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 17997 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,113,483 ratings — published 2003
The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
by (shelved 17763 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,690,496 ratings — published 1985
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 17048 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,702,247 ratings — published 2003
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 16676 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,449,167 ratings — published 1988
Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by (shelved 16559 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,478,620 ratings — published 1813
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16542 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,518,804 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 16459 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,166,908 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 16168 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,313,448 ratings — published 1999
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 15870 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,276,764 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 15408 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,969,766 ratings — published 2000
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15078 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,958,277 ratings — published 1953
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 14919 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,766,129 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 14859 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.62 — 3,167,647 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 14767 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,854,695 ratings — published 2003
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14576 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,608,865 ratings — published 1932
The Book Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14497 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,109,601 ratings — published 2005
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 14124 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,891,040 ratings — published 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 14109 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,865,025 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14056 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,166,090 ratings — published 1937
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 14010 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,458,748 ratings — published 2001
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 13326 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,321,597 ratings — published 2003
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 13274 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,664,562 ratings — published 2010
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 13136 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,228,096 ratings — published 1969
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12976 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,397,545 ratings — published 2009
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 12823 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,622,403 ratings — published 2012
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 12567 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,911,432 ratings — published 2000
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 12042 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,809,736 ratings — published 1847
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11625 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,168,399 ratings — published 2012
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11491 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,239,092 ratings — published 2014
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 11365 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,609,308 ratings — published 1979
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11158 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 835,973 ratings — published 1967
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 11099 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,149,010 ratings — published 1890
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 10932 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,196,470 ratings — published 1996
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10912 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 788,652 ratings — published 2006
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 10904 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,311,966 ratings — published 1818
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10877 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,836,300 ratings — published 1997
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 10869 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,540,064 ratings — published 1954
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10848 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,445,141 ratings — published 2015
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10702 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 772,394 ratings — published 1961
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10676 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,165,706 ratings — published 2002
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 10602 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,671,548 ratings — published 2003
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 10351 times as fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,517,026 ratings — published 1847
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 10341 times as fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,483,612 ratings — published 2006
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
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