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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,892,320 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,188,099 ratings — published -700
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,882,141 ratings — published 1951
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,781,123 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as canon)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,859,541 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as canon)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,432,126 ratings — published 1949
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,875,833 ratings — published 1818
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,036,070 ratings — published 1847
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,047,287 ratings — published 1601
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,315,811 ratings — published 1847
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,415,927 ratings — published 1915
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,867,529 ratings — published 1890
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 614,517 ratings — published 1851
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 508,075 ratings — published -800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,454 ratings — published 1615
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,391,042 ratings — published 1942
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,074,107 ratings — published 1866
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,815,854 ratings — published 1590
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 928,562 ratings — published 1878
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,017,091 ratings — published 1623
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 3.44 — 917,469 ratings — published 1850
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,526,883 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,824,996 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,335,407 ratings — published 1885
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,069,917 ratings — published 1932
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 942,618 ratings — published 1955
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 991,738 ratings — published 1939
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 872,076 ratings — published 1861
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,822,192 ratings — published 1953
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,087 ratings — published -19
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as canon)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,307,331 ratings — published 1952
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,613 ratings — published 1922
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.71 — 373,751 ratings — published 1856
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 182,090 ratings — published 1667
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.43 — 557,164 ratings — published 1899
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.78 — 355,361 ratings — published 1925
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,470,558 ratings — published 1897
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 577,440 ratings — published 1595
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,213,314 ratings — published 1963
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,451,643 ratings — published 1868
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.39 — 384,570 ratings — published 1880
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 364,973 ratings — published 1869
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,010,707 ratings — published 1859
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.08 — 171,820 ratings — published 1320
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,663 ratings — published 1929
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 237,605 ratings — published 1400
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canon)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,100,756 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canon)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,234 ratings — published 1961
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 178,818 ratings — published 1872
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,442,150 ratings — published 1937
“Nous avons un livre sur cette histoire, comme nous en avons également uu sur les Machabées. Durant cette captivité, Misaël, Ananias et Azarias ayant refusé d'adorer une statue, furent jetés dans une fournaise ardente, et sauvés des flammes par un ange qui descendit vers eux. Alors aussi, Daniel ayant été jeté dans la fosse aux lions, fut nourri par les mains d'Habacuc, par un miracle, et retiré sain et sauf de la fosse le septième jour. Ce fut alors aussi qu'un miracle fut fait en faveur de Jonas, et que Tobie, avec le secours de l'ange Raphaël, épousa Sara, dont les sept premiers prétendants avaient été tués par le démon; et que Tobie le père, après la célébration des noces, recouvra la vue.”
― Miscellanies
― Miscellanies
“The canon is finished. Anyone who believes that one can construct a canon from the tidal wave of narrative produced today is guilty of wishful thinking. All we will have is a record of who won the prizes and achieved celebrity status. But, perhaps, the canon was always a fairly heavy-handed tool and little more than a convenience. The only thing is to follow one’s nose and listen carefully to the way others talk about books, learn who’s opinion takes you to interesting places.”
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