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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,157,103 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,291,915 ratings — published -800
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,021,007 ratings — published 1951
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,023,849 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as canon)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,138,358 ratings — published 1960
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,011,672 ratings — published 1818
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as canon)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,785,450 ratings — published 1949
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,093,370 ratings — published 1601
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,301,791 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,013,139 ratings — published 1890
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,569,562 ratings — published 1915
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 539,205 ratings — published -750
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,421,272 ratings — published 1847
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 636,754 ratings — published 1851
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,536,444 ratings — published 1942
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,553 ratings — published 1605
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,895,818 ratings — published 1590
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,827,294 ratings — published 1945
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as canon)
avg rating 4.11 — 970,934 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,164,266 ratings — published 1866
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,058,596 ratings — published 1623
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 3.44 — 943,669 ratings — published 1850
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as canon)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,159,714 ratings — published 1932
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 981,574 ratings — published 1955
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,960,430 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,030,638 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,001,923 ratings — published 1963
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 896,902 ratings — published 1861
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,355,411 ratings — published 1885
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,332 ratings — published -19
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.71 — 391,010 ratings — published 1856
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.43 — 576,940 ratings — published 1899
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,380,705 ratings — published 1952
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 4.09 — 180,187 ratings — published 1304
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.77 — 377,259 ratings — published 1925
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,828 ratings — published 1667
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as canon)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,548,260 ratings — published 1868
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,035,992 ratings — published 1859
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 4.40 — 417,508 ratings — published 1879
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,992 ratings — published 1922
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 594,958 ratings — published 1595
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,158 ratings — published 1929
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,155,405 ratings — published 1967
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 378,988 ratings — published 1868
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,644,579 ratings — published 1937
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,322,206 ratings — published 1963
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 188,225 ratings — published 1872
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,548,295 ratings — published 1897
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,202 ratings — published 1400
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as canon)
avg rating 3.81 — 227,096 ratings — published 1927
“Logos (The Biblical Manuscripts/Canon of Scriptures) & Rhema (The Person/Life/Words/Death/Resurrection of Jesus Christ): The 'special' & 'ultimate' revelation of God. Without these revelations God would be unsearchable, unknowable, and inscrutable."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
― The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
― The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
“If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how and what we ought to admire; and if we cannot arrive at this combination of admiration with knowledge, rather to believe that we are dull, than that the rest of the world has been imposed on.”
― An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution.
― An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution.
