418 books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,871,107 ratings — published 1925
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,488 ratings — published 1978
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,835,896 ratings — published 1960
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as academic)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,454 ratings — published 1989
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as academic)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,420 ratings — published 1848
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,810,288 ratings — published 1590
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,540 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as academic)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,774 ratings — published 1975
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,014,704 ratings — published 1623
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 381,122 ratings — published 1532
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,507,934 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,410,094 ratings — published 1949
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,184,605 ratings — published -700
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,289 ratings — published 1983
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 225,009 ratings — published -400
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,181,144 ratings — published 1954
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,991 ratings — published 1968
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,044,612 ratings — published 1601
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,249,241 ratings — published 2011
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,816,019 ratings — published 1937
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,866,860 ratings — published 1818
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 583,803 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,133 ratings — published 1997
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,962 ratings — published 1918
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,872,700 ratings — published 1951
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,101 ratings — published 1949
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,898 ratings — published 2010
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 915,627 ratings — published 1850
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,984 ratings — published 1952
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 75 times as academic)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,793 ratings — published 2017
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,972 ratings — published 1988
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 — 32,051 ratings — published 1961
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,810,866 ratings — published 1953
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 3.50 — 345,014 ratings — published 1000
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,309 ratings — published 1981
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 507,001 ratings — published -800
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,009 ratings — published 2005
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,814 ratings — published 1962
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,405 ratings — published 2019
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,057 ratings — published 2007
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,764,621 ratings — published 1813
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,058 ratings — published 1904
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 435,200 ratings — published 1603
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,163,773 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,064,837 ratings — published 1932
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,309,844 ratings — published 1847
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,366 ratings — published 1995
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,515 ratings — published 1981
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,114 ratings — published 1957
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 57,468 ratings — published 1762
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