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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,891,914 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,188,049 ratings — published -700
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,881,948 ratings — published 1951
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,780,842 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as canon)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,859,166 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as canon)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,431,701 ratings — published 1949
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,875,666 ratings — published 1818
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,035,898 ratings — published 1847
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,047,229 ratings — published 1601
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,315,684 ratings — published 1847
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,415,810 ratings — published 1915
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,867,378 ratings — published 1890
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 614,502 ratings — published 1851
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 508,058 ratings — published -800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,447 ratings — published 1615
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,390,934 ratings — published 1942
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,074,034 ratings — published 1866
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,815,753 ratings — published 1590
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 928,517 ratings — published 1878
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,017,042 ratings — published 1623
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 3.44 — 917,432 ratings — published 1850
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,526,508 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,824,820 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,335,389 ratings — published 1885
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,069,818 ratings — published 1932
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 942,576 ratings — published 1955
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 991,710 ratings — published 1939
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 872,058 ratings — published 1861
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,821,976 ratings — published 1953
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,088 ratings — published -19
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as canon)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,307,272 ratings — published 1952
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,608 ratings — published 1922
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.71 — 373,730 ratings — published 1856
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 182,086 ratings — published 1667
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.43 — 557,150 ratings — published 1899
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.78 — 355,340 ratings — published 1925
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,470,487 ratings — published 1897
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 577,426 ratings — published 1595
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,213,231 ratings — published 1963
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,451,518 ratings — published 1868
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.39 — 384,558 ratings — published 1880
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 364,962 ratings — published 1869
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,010,682 ratings — published 1859
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.08 — 171,809 ratings — published 1320
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,657 ratings — published 1929
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 237,599 ratings — published 1400
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canon)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,100,696 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canon)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,219 ratings — published 1961
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 178,814 ratings — published 1872
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,441,965 ratings — published 1937
“Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“Художник, по невежествыу воображающий, будто без канонической формы он сотворит великое, подобен пешеходу, которому мешает, по его мнению, твердая почва и который мнит, что вися в воздухе, он ушел бы дальше, чем по земле. На самом же деле такой художник, отбросив форму совершенную, бессознательно хватается за обрывки и обломки тоже форм, но случайных и несовершенных, и к этим-то бессознательным реминисценциям притягивает эпитет «творчества».”
― Iconostasis
― Iconostasis
