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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,157,664 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,292,135 ratings — published -800
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,021,271 ratings — published 1951
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,024,339 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as canon)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,138,928 ratings — published 1960
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,012,114 ratings — published 1818
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as canon)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,786,117 ratings — published 1949
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,093,473 ratings — published 1601
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,302,067 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,013,490 ratings — published 1890
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,569,879 ratings — published 1915
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 539,275 ratings — published -750
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,421,484 ratings — published 1847
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 636,808 ratings — published 1851
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,536,761 ratings — published 1942
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,581 ratings — published 1605
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,895,971 ratings — published 1590
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,827,958 ratings — published 1945
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as canon)
avg rating 4.11 — 971,024 ratings — published 1878
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,164,447 ratings — published 1866
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,058,680 ratings — published 1623
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 3.44 — 943,727 ratings — published 1850
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as canon)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,159,890 ratings — published 1932
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 981,688 ratings — published 1955
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,960,739 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,030,724 ratings — published 1939
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,002,284 ratings — published 1963
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 896,975 ratings — published 1861
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,355,480 ratings — published 1885
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,351 ratings — published -19
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.71 — 391,063 ratings — published 1856
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.43 — 577,003 ratings — published 1899
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,380,844 ratings — published 1952
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 4.09 — 180,210 ratings — published 1304
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.77 — 377,290 ratings — published 1925
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,839 ratings — published 1667
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as canon)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,548,467 ratings — published 1868
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,036,049 ratings — published 1859
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 4.40 — 417,570 ratings — published 1879
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,997 ratings — published 1922
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 594,995 ratings — published 1595
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,177 ratings — published 1929
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,155,522 ratings — published 1967
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 379,027 ratings — published 1868
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,644,983 ratings — published 1937
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,322,458 ratings — published 1963
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 188,247 ratings — published 1872
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,548,786 ratings — published 1897
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,215 ratings — published 1400
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as canon)
avg rating 3.81 — 227,129 ratings — published 1927
“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that came before. Those books that allow us to forget the most are accorded he authority of the classic.”
― Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
― Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
“I don’t know how I feel about a canon anymore ... The sheer volume of books that exist out there means that a canon is no longer possible.”
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