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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 � 5,624,599 ratings � published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 � 6,578,657 ratings � published 1960
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as academic)
avg rating 4.05 � 18,315 ratings � published 1989
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 � 2,734,413 ratings � published 1597
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 � 24,577 ratings � published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as academic)
avg rating 4.24 � 35,156 ratings � published 1975
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 � 364,213 ratings � published 1513
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 � 974,746 ratings � published 1623
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 � 15,614 ratings � published 1983
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as academic)
avg rating 3.82 � 1,140,279 ratings � published -700
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 � 37,111 ratings � published 1968
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 � 3,074,559 ratings � published 1954
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 � 1,007,487 ratings � published 1601
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as academic)
avg rating 3.96 � 216,816 ratings � published -400
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 � 2,709,450 ratings � published 1937
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as academic)
avg rating 4.35 � 1,167,871 ratings � published 2011
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 � 1,736,292 ratings � published 1818
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as academic)
avg rating 4.17 � 551,072 ratings � published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 � 438,133 ratings � published 1997
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 � 85,766 ratings � published 1918
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 � 3,746,400 ratings � published 1951
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 � 17,618 ratings � published 1952
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 � 894,863 ratings � published 1850
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 � 460,226 ratings � published 1988
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 � 44,987 ratings � published 1949
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as academic)
avg rating 4.52 � 113,626 ratings � published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 � 31,975 ratings � published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 � 29,667 ratings � published 1961
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 3.49 � 333,805 ratings � published 1000
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 � 484,660 ratings � published -800
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 � 28,667 ratings � published 1962
Pride & Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 4.29 � 4,534,377 ratings � published 1813
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 � 878,888 ratings � published 2005
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 � 421,915 ratings � published 1603
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 4.07 � 4,829 ratings � published 2007
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 � 14,488 ratings � published 1904
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as academic)
avg rating 4.15 � 2,225,281 ratings � published 1847
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 � 4,005,117 ratings � published 1947
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as academic)
avg rating 4.12 � 2,686,330 ratings � published 1993
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 � 4,219 ratings � published 1995
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as academic)
avg rating 3.99 � 1,979,119 ratings � published 1932
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as academic)
avg rating 4.35 � 147,744 ratings � published 2019
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 � 16,593 ratings � published 1957
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as academic)
avg rating 4.38 � 1,315,913 ratings � published 1956
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as academic)
avg rating 3.94 � 561,983 ratings � published 1595
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as academic)
avg rating 3.79 � 54,522 ratings � published 1762
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 � 119,092 ratings � published 1859
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 � 1,268,766 ratings � published 1942
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 � 15,642 ratings � published 1981
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as academic)
avg rating 3.71 � 50,608 ratings � published 1651
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