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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,876,952 ratings — published 1925
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,523 ratings — published 1978
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,842,044 ratings — published 1960
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as academic)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,472 ratings — published 1989
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,811,853 ratings — published 1590
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as academic)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,660 ratings — published 1848
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,553 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as academic)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,803 ratings — published 1975
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,015,491 ratings — published 1623
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 381,444 ratings — published 1532
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,513,734 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,416,501 ratings — published 1949
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,185,649 ratings — published -700
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,298 ratings — published 1983
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 225,150 ratings — published -400
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,183,585 ratings — published 1954
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,027 ratings — published 1968
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,045,502 ratings — published 1601
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,250,783 ratings — published 2011
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,818,563 ratings — published 1937
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,869,805 ratings — published 1818
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 584,436 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,437 ratings — published 1997
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,982 ratings — published 1918
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,875,379 ratings — published 1951
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,142 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 — 116,944 ratings — published 2010
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 916,188 ratings — published 1850
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,014 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 — 11,875 ratings — published 2017
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as academic)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,112 ratings — published 1961
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 477,274 ratings — published 1988
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,814,121 ratings — published 1953
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 3.50 — 345,197 ratings — published 1000
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,349 ratings — published 1981
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 507,374 ratings — published -800
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,317 ratings — published 2005
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,824 ratings — published 1962
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,693 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 — 5,059 ratings — published 2007
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,769,497 ratings — published 1813
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,066 ratings — published 1904
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 435,394 ratings — published 1603
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,167,361 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,066,364 ratings — published 1932
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,311,587 ratings — published 1847
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,368 ratings — published 1995
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,119 ratings — published 1957
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,531 ratings — published 1981
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 57,516 ratings — published 1762
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