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Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as academics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,058,142 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as academics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,026,446 ratings — published 1623
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as academics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,953,356 ratings — published 1925
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as academics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,911,027 ratings — published 1818
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as academics)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,593,928 ratings — published 1945
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as academics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,201,093 ratings — published -800
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as academics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,924,567 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as academics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,854,185 ratings — published 1937
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as academics)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,833,601 ratings — published 1590
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as academics)
avg rating 3.84 — 385,194 ratings — published 1532
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as academics)
avg rating 3.89 — 438,553 ratings — published 1603
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as academics)
avg rating 3.43 — 561,130 ratings — published 1899
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as academics)
avg rating 3.93 — 512,962 ratings — published -800
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as academics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,513,113 ratings — published 1948
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as academics)
avg rating 3.75 — 414,768 ratings — published 1958
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as academics)
avg rating 3.44 — 923,637 ratings — published 1850
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as academics)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,227 ratings — published 1000
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as academics)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,897 ratings — published 2005
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,923,632 ratings — published 2021
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,370,699 ratings — published 1956
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.78 — 228,446 ratings — published 1611
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,340,295 ratings — published 1885
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.97 — 227,148 ratings — published -400
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,336 ratings — published 1989
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,126,928 ratings — published 1847
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,902 ratings — published 1978
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,839,228 ratings — published 1813
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,217,898 ratings — published 1954
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,089,549 ratings — published 1932
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,295 ratings — published 1918
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,912,263 ratings — published 1951
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.77 — 165,219 ratings — published 1879
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.37 — 887,601 ratings — published 1946
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.04 — 180,112 ratings — published 1872
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.35 — 285,293 ratings — published 2014
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,322,427 ratings — published 1952
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.35 — 255,692 ratings — published 1965
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.59 — 260,209 ratings — published 1949
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.03 — 999,231 ratings — published 1939
How to Write a Thesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,634 ratings — published 1977
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.80 — 877,651 ratings — published 1861
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.53 — 238,591 ratings — published 1400
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.68 — 200,009 ratings — published 1848
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,043,087 ratings — published 1992
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,408 ratings — published 1995
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,519 ratings — published 1976
How to Become a Straight-A Student (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,679 ratings — published 2006
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.94 — 580,861 ratings — published 1595
Fundamentals of Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as academics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,192 ratings — published 2010
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as academics)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,487,224 ratings — published 1897
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