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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,705 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,736 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 446,426 ratings — published 1972
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,983 ratings — published 1957
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,811 ratings — published 1942
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,673 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 272,170 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,710 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,460 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,636 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,357 ratings — published 2008
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,359 ratings — published -335
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,011 ratings — published 1927
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,720 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,714 ratings — published 1992
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,384 ratings — published 1973
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,917 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.67 — 23,636 ratings — published 2023
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,668 ratings — published 1997
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,705 ratings — published 1990
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,171 ratings — published 1979
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,735 ratings — published 2003
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,771 ratings — published 1973
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,955 ratings — published 1934
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,124 ratings — published 2005
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,700 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 — 40,352 ratings — published 1985
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 613 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 — 34,626 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 — 6,721 ratings — published 2019
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,006 ratings — published 1925
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,453 ratings — published 1991
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,760 ratings — published 2016
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,696,619 ratings — published 1945
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 466 ratings — published 1931
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,141 ratings — published 1981
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,827 ratings — published 1949
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,903 ratings — published 1993
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,120,284 ratings — published 1932
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,301 ratings — published 1961
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,012 ratings — published 1973
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,713 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,829 ratings — published 2011
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,147 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,217 ratings — published 1980
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,977 ratings — published 1988
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 26,499 ratings — published 2021
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,343 ratings — published 2002
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,572 ratings — published 1991
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,633,305 ratings — published 1948
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― The Last of the Mohicans
― The Last of the Mohicans
“I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.”
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