How many books are on 4lit?

4lit has 96 books, published between 1320 and 2013.

Which book on 4lit is the most popular?

1984 by George Orwell is the most-rated book on the list, with 5,983 ratings and a 4.2 average.

What is the highest-rated book on 4lit?

East of Eden by John Steinbeck has the highest average rating among the list's books with at least 100 ratings: 4.5 out of 5.

Where should I start with 4lit?

Start with 1984, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again and Dune: the three most-rated books on the list.

What genres are on 4lit?

The books on this list are tagged General, History, Literature and Classics.

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§Collection

4lit

Original order

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon, 1973

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

Walt Whitman, 1855

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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§Collection

4lit

Original order

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon, 1973

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

Walt Whitman, 1855

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

The Castle

Franz Kafka, 1922

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1885

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol, 1842

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs, 1959

Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima, 1949

The Metamorphoses

Ovid, 8

The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolaño, 1998

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner, 1936

V.

Thomas Pynchon, 1963

Ficciones / El libro de los seres imaginarios

Jorge Luis Borges

The Confessions

Augustine of Hippo, 378

Finnegans Wake

James Joyce, 1928

The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority

Max Stirner, 1844

Suttree

Cormac McCarthy, 1979

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace, 2011

Underworld

Don DeLillo, 1997

Fear and Trembling/Repetition

Soren Kierkegaard, 1843

Being and Time

Martin Heidegger, 1927

Taipei

Tao Lin, 2013

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry, 1947

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§ About this list

Books: 96
Published: 1320–2013
Average rating: 4.0 / 5 across 72,045 ratings
Genres: General, History, Literature, Classics

Most-rated on 4lit

11984 · George Orwell
2The Hobbit, or There and Back Again · J.R.R. Tolkien
3Dune · Frank Herbert

Common questions about 4lit

How many books are on 4lit?: 4lit has 96 books, published between 1320 and 2013.
Which book on 4lit is the most popular?: 1984 by George Orwell is the most-rated book on the list, with 5,983 ratings and a 4.2 average.
What is the highest-rated book on 4lit?: East of Eden by John Steinbeck has the highest average rating among the list's books with at least 100 ratings: 4.5 out of 5.
Where should I start with 4lit?: Start with 1984, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again and Dune: the three most-rated books on the list.
What genres are on 4lit?: The books on this list are tagged General, History, Literature and Classics.

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