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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,074,082 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as canon)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,236,260 ratings — published -700
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,975,500 ratings — published 1951
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,948,901 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as canon)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,051,315 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as canon)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,670,395 ratings — published 1948
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,971,985 ratings — published 1818
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,256,726 ratings — published 1847
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,079,653 ratings — published 1601
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,511,809 ratings — published 1915
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,963,095 ratings — published 1890
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,387,114 ratings — published 1847
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 526,519 ratings — published -750
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 629,480 ratings — published 1851
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 311,989 ratings — published 1605
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,485,905 ratings — published 1942
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,871,448 ratings — published 1590
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,729,700 ratings — published 1945
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,132,560 ratings — published 1866
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 4.11 — 956,594 ratings — published 1878
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,046,045 ratings — published 1623
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 3.44 — 935,623 ratings — published 1850
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 969,117 ratings — published 1955
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as canon)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,129,780 ratings — published 1932
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,914,403 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,016,685 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,943,033 ratings — published 1963
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,046 ratings — published -19
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,348,696 ratings — published 1885
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as canon)
avg rating 3.71 — 385,241 ratings — published 1856
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as canon)
avg rating 3.43 — 570,440 ratings — published 1899
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 888,892 ratings — published 1861
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 186,621 ratings — published 1667
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,355,079 ratings — published 1952
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.77 — 369,407 ratings — published 1925
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 4.09 — 177,397 ratings — published 1320
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,517,950 ratings — published 1868
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 140,692 ratings — published 1922
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,027,834 ratings — published 1859
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,521,645 ratings — published 1897
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 588,775 ratings — published 1595
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 199,894 ratings — published 1929
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 4.39 — 406,253 ratings — published 1879
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 184,759 ratings — published 1872
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 240,775 ratings — published 1400
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,135,289 ratings — published 1967
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 374,437 ratings — published 1868
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,284,764 ratings — published 1963
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,575,088 ratings — published 1937
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as canon)
avg rating 3.99 — 899,347 ratings — published 1961
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