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Shelfology

Fiction
118
Science Fiction
19
Mystery & Thriller
14
Fantasy
10
Literary Criticism
5
History
4
Biography
2
Children's & Young Adult
2
Poetry & Drama
2
Comics & Graphic Novels
2

FictionNon-fiction
94%
6%
165 books11 books

Languagesprominent
English73%
+1727%
189 booksSpanish, German, French, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, Catalan, ZH-CN, Polish, Portuguese, Finnish, Korean, Chinese, GLE, UND

Publication timeline
1800s2020s
Spans 1800 → 2026 · peak in the 2010s (plus 1 older)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

James Agee

Foundation

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

The Testaments

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Second Foundation

Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov

The Blind Assassin

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (Stage-4)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (Stage-4)

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Foundation's Edge

Foundation's Edge

Isaac Asimov

Emma

Emma

Jane Austen

Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

The Good Earth

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

Yellowface

Yellowface

R F Kuang

The Stranger

The Stranger

Albert Camus

The Mists of Avalon

The Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Fall

The Fall

Albert Camus

The Plague

The Plague

Albert Camus

Every Good Boy Does Fine

Every Good Boy Does Fine

Jeremy Denk

The Professor's House

The Professor's House

Willa Cather

Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys

Michael Chabon

The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

THE FOREIGN STUDENT

THE FOREIGN STUDENT

SUSAN CHOI

Dawn

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler

A Person of Interest

A Person of Interest

Susan Choi

The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

The Reivers

The Reivers

William Faulkner

The Hunt for Red October

The Hunt for Red October

Tom Clancy

Kindred

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

The Sellout

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

Portnoy's Complaint

Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth

Labyrinths

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

The Decameron

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Villette

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

Exhalation

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Jaws

Jaws

Peter Benchley

The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY

2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY

Arthur C. Clarke

Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Lincoln in the Bardo

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Leviathan Wakes (10th Anniversary Edition)

Leviathan Wakes (10th Anniversary Edition)

James S. A. Corey

Chimera (American Literature)

Chimera (American Literature)

John Barth

Falling in place

Falling in place

Ann Beattie

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

The Russian Debutante's Handbook

The Russian Debutante's Handbook

Gary Shteyngart

The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman

The Assistant

The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

The Regulators

The Regulators

Richard Bachman

The Jungle

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

Babel-17

Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany

The flivver king

The flivver king

Upton Sinclair

Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

The Bridge of Lost Desire

The Bridge of Lost Desire

Samuel R. Delany

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick

The Tainted Cup

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

For the Win

For the Win

Cory Doctorow

The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins

The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins

Pauline E. Hopkins

Someday, Someday, Maybe

Someday, Someday, Maybe

Lauren Graham

Paper Towns

Paper Towns

John Green

White-Jacket

White-Jacket

Herman Melville

American Gods

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Summerland

Summerland

Michael Chabon

Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Anansi Boys

Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Redburn

Redburn

Herman Melville

Anna Karenina (Illustrated)

Anna Karenina (Illustrated)

Leo Tolstoy

Fates and Furies

Fates and Furies

Lauren Groff

The middle of the journey

The middle of the journey

Lionel Trilling

Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

Disgrace

Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee

Green Earth (The Science in the Capital)

Green Earth (The Science in the Capital)

Kim Stanley Robinson

The novels of Dashiell Hammett

The novels of Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett

Ghostwritten

Ghostwritten

David Mitchell

Black Swan Green

Black Swan Green

David Mitchell

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain

Children of Dune

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert

Microserfs

Microserfs

Douglas Coupland

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

The Pale King

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

The gum thief

The gum thief

Douglas Coupland

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

Chapterhouse: Dune

Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert

Strangers On a Train

Strangers On a Train

Patricia Highsmith

The Intuitionist

The Intuitionist

Colson Whitehead

1Q84

1Q84

Haruki Murakami

The Price of Salt

The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith

Zone One

Zone One

Colson Whitehead

White Noise

White Noise

Don DeLillo

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde (Classics, Literature) Annotated

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde (Classics, Literature) Annotated

Oscar Wilde

Zero K

Zero K

Don DeLillo

The Silence

The Silence

Don DeLillo

Dune

Dune

Frank Herbert

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

The man in the gray flannel suit

The man in the gray flannel suit

Sloan Wilson

To The Lighthouse

To The Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Bleak House

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

October

October

China Miéville

The Poppy War

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang

Orlando

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

Babel

Babel

Unknown Author

The Eye of the World

The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan

The Committed

The Committed

Viet Thanh Nguyen

The collected stories of Chester Himes

Chester Himes

The Great Hunt: The Graphic Novel, Volume Two

The Great Hunt: The Graphic Novel, Volume Two

Robert Jordan

A Long Way Down

A Long Way Down

Nick Hornby

Black Boy

Black Boy

Richard Wright

The Dragon Reborn

The Dragon Reborn

Robert Jordan

Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life Is Everywhere

Lucy Ives

Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

Severance

Severance

Ling Ma

Choke

Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

The American

The American

Henry James

The street (Pyramid book)

The street (Pyramid book)

Ann Lane Petry

The Financier

The Financier

Theodore Dreiser

A Game of Thrones: Comic Book, Issue 11

A Game of Thrones: Comic Book, Issue 11

George R. R. Martin

The Bostonians

The Bostonians

Henry James

The Titan

The Titan

Theodore Dreiser

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

George R. R. Martin

The stoic

The stoic

Theodore Dreiser

The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl

Henry James

A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

The Circle

The Circle

Dave Eggers

Dubliners

Dubliners

James Joyce

Adam Bede

Adam Bede

George Eliot

The Silver Linings Playbook

The Silver Linings Playbook

Matthew Quick

Silas Marner

Silas Marner

George Eliot

American Psycho

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

Invisible Man

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Middlesex

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

The wild palms

The wild palms

William Faulkner

Go Down, Moses

Go Down, Moses

William Faulkner

Light in August

Light in August

William Faulkner

The Hamlet

The Hamlet

William Faulkner

The Town

The Town

William Faulkner

The mansion

The mansion

William Faulkner

The Corrections

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

Freedom

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is Illuminated

Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This Side Of Paradise

This Side Of Paradise

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

Red Harvest

Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

The Thin Man

The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett

The Glass Key

The Glass Key

Dashiell Hammett

The Dain curse

The Dain curse

Dashiell Hammett

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely

Farewell, My Lovely

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

The Lady in the Lake

The Lady in the Lake

Raymond Chandler

The Little Sister

The Little Sister

Raymond Chandler

Play It As It Lays

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

The White Album

The White Album

Joan Didion

A Book of Common Prayer

A Book of Common Prayer

Joan Didion

Democracy

Democracy

Joan Didion

Run river

Run river

Joan Didion

The last thing he wanted

The last thing he wanted

Joan Didion

Where I was from

Where I was from

Joan Didion

Blue Nights

Blue Nights

Joan Didion

South and west

South and west

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion