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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,890,627 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,187,819 ratings — published -700
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,881,313 ratings — published 1951
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,779,772 ratings — published 1813
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as canon)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,857,724 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as canon)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,430,110 ratings — published 1949
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,875,076 ratings — published 1818
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,035,318 ratings — published 1847
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,047,046 ratings — published 1601
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,315,274 ratings — published 1847
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,415,269 ratings — published 1915
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,866,768 ratings — published 1890
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 614,433 ratings — published 1851
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 507,985 ratings — published -800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,412 ratings — published 1615
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,390,439 ratings — published 1942
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,073,684 ratings — published 1866
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,815,423 ratings — published 1590
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 928,338 ratings — published 1878
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,016,893 ratings — published 1623
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 3.44 — 917,330 ratings — published 1850
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,525,224 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,824,292 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,335,328 ratings — published 1885
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,069,442 ratings — published 1932
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 942,415 ratings — published 1955
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 991,587 ratings — published 1939
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 871,956 ratings — published 1861
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,821,226 ratings — published 1953
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,079 ratings — published -19
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as canon)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,306,958 ratings — published 1952
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,598 ratings — published 1922
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.71 — 373,651 ratings — published 1856
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 182,058 ratings — published 1667
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.43 — 557,086 ratings — published 1899
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as canon)
avg rating 3.78 — 355,288 ratings — published 1925
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,470,162 ratings — published 1897
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 577,369 ratings — published 1595
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,212,863 ratings — published 1963
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,450,992 ratings — published 1868
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canon)
avg rating 4.39 — 384,482 ratings — published 1880
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 364,917 ratings — published 1869
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,010,582 ratings — published 1859
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 4.08 — 171,780 ratings — published 1320
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,646 ratings — published 1929
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 237,580 ratings — published 1400
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canon)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,100,465 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canon)
avg rating 3.99 — 885,168 ratings — published 1961
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 178,799 ratings — published 1872
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,441,347 ratings — published 1937
“Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.”
― The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Doctrine
― The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Doctrine
“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
