88 books
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Allegory Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 517 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,615,017 ratings — published 1945
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.08 — 160,733 ratings — published 1678
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,227,081 ratings — published 1954
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 164 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,171,331 ratings — published 1950
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,615,394 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,509,949 ratings — published 1943
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,761,656 ratings — published 2001
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 100 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.06 — 612,848 ratings — published 1955
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.35 — 60,944 ratings — published 1955
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 92 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 510,852 ratings — published 1952
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.32 — 186,230 ratings — published 1946
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.98 — 488,802 ratings — published 1951
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 86 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 395,617 ratings — published 1954
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
by (shelved 84 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.01 — 308,177 ratings — published 1956
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 75 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.96 — 333,492 ratings — published 1953
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 69 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 711,881 ratings — published 1956
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 507,812 ratings — published 1972
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.27 — 529,554 ratings — published 1942
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 274,468 ratings — published 1970
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,538,362 ratings — published 1948
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,456,030 ratings — published 1915
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 108,229 ratings — published 1938
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 82,086 ratings — published 1956
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 207,979 ratings — published 1321
The Pilgrim's Regress (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,862 ratings — published 1933
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.82 — 46,897 ratings — published 1908
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,327,266 ratings — published 1952
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 308,381 ratings — published 1961
Beatrice and Virgil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.18 — 21,962 ratings — published 2010
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 61,092 ratings — published 1943
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.84 — 696,611 ratings — published 2007
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.18 — 343,248 ratings — published 1995
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,874,642 ratings — published 1953
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.61 — 467,482 ratings — published 1953
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,242,792 ratings — published 1964
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 78,234 ratings — published 1884
That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,709 ratings — published 1945
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 123,661 ratings — published 2015
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 427,473 ratings — published 1967
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,831,180 ratings — published 1993
Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.18 — 37,258 ratings — published 2003
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,182 ratings — published 1851
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.44 — 653,031 ratings — published 1952
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 300,486 ratings — published 1726
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.08 — 886,055 ratings — published 1922
White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 33,191 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's Dawn (Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,954 ratings — published 2001
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 319,123 ratings — published 1947
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,458,371 ratings — published 1985
Red: The Heroic Rescue (The Circle, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 30,014 ratings — published 2004
“. . . Tolkien disliked vague allegories, allegories which didn’t work, though he accepted them readily in their proper place, which was either advancing an argument (as in the Beowulf example) or else constructing brief and personal fables . . .”
― J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
― J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“آدم یا باید، پول را به زور بازویش یا به نیروی فکری درآورد.”
― Pinicchio
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