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Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,458 ratings — published 1978
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,145,577 ratings — published 1925
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 209,952 ratings — published 1848
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,126,193 ratings — published 1960
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,560 ratings — published 1989
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,892,135 ratings — published 1590
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,682 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as academic)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,458 ratings — published 1975
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,060 ratings — published 1513
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,056,841 ratings — published 1623
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,812,797 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,768,277 ratings — published 1949
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as academic)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,286,667 ratings — published -800
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,037 ratings — published 1983
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,179 ratings — published -400
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as academic)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,317,349 ratings — published 1954
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,068 ratings — published 1968
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as academic)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,330,125 ratings — published 2011
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,091,220 ratings — published 1601
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,004,307 ratings — published 1818
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,953,452 ratings — published 1937
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,233 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,452 ratings — published 1918
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as academic)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,676 ratings — published 2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,202 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,014,339 ratings — published 1951
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,517 ratings — published 2010
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 942,344 ratings — published 1850
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as academic)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,993 ratings — published 1961
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,272 ratings — published 1949
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,633 ratings — published 1952
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,993,070 ratings — published 1963
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 493,866 ratings — published 1988
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,807 ratings — published 1981
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,465 ratings — published 2019
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 3.50 — 356,991 ratings — published 950
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,654 ratings — published 2005
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,220 ratings — published 2007
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,155 ratings — published 1962
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,485 ratings — published -750
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,671 ratings — published 1904
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 448,972 ratings — published 1603
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,415,563 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,528,460 ratings — published 1942
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,491 ratings — published 1995
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 55,031 ratings — published 1651
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,333,306 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,155,162 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,012,428 ratings — published 1813
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,566 ratings — published 1981
“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.”
― A Tale of Love and Darkness
― A Tale of Love and Darkness
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I learned about developmental psychology and social psychology, I learned on my own. I was an outsider looking in, and that has made all the difference. I did not buy
into the assumptions of the academic establishment. I was not indebted to their granting agencies. And, once I had given up writing textbooks, I was not required to perpetuate the status quo by teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students. I gave up writing textbooks because one day it suddenly occurred to me that many of the things I had been telling those credulous college students were wrong.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
into the assumptions of the academic establishment. I was not indebted to their granting agencies. And, once I had given up writing textbooks, I was not required to perpetuate the status quo by teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students. I gave up writing textbooks because one day it suddenly occurred to me that many of the things I had been telling those credulous college students were wrong.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
