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Criticism Books
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,811 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,749 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 450,674 ratings — published 1972
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,825 ratings — published 1942
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,988 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,690 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 275,902 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,026 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,560 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,675 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,391 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,050 ratings — published 1927
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,609 ratings — published -335
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,733 ratings — published 1998
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,847 ratings — published 1973
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,746 ratings — published 1992
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,931 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.66 — 24,178 ratings — published 2023
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,108 ratings — published 2003
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,781 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,691 ratings — published 1997
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,731 ratings — published 1990
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,958 ratings — published 1934
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,186 ratings — published 1979
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,707 ratings — published 1980
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 40,901 ratings — published 1985
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,447 ratings — published 2005
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 614 ratings — published 1930
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,837 ratings — published 2003
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,739 ratings — published 2019
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,750,800 ratings — published 1945
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 469 ratings — published 1931
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,020 ratings — published 1925
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,880 ratings — published 2016
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,486 ratings — published 1991
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,925 ratings — published 1993
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,154 ratings — published 1981
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,041 ratings — published 1949
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,048 ratings — published 1973
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,134,357 ratings — published 1932
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 26,982 ratings — published 2021
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,849 ratings — published 2011
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,449 ratings — published 1961
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,719 ratings — published 2016
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,177 ratings — published 2010
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,302 ratings — published 1961
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,766 ratings — published 1980
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,054 ratings — published 1988
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,583 ratings — published 1965
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,590 ratings — published 2019
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
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