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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,496 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,697 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 439,090 ratings — published 1972
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,972 ratings — published 1957
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,772 ratings — published 1942
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,629 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 264,780 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,973 ratings — published 1978
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,542 ratings — published 1955
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,281 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,218 ratings — published 2008
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,825 ratings — published -335
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,971 ratings — published 1927
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,711 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,621 ratings — published 1992
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,215 ratings — published 1973
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.68 — 22,499 ratings — published 2023
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,886 ratings — published 2000
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,658 ratings — published 1990
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,626 ratings — published 1997
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 — 4,141 ratings — published 1979
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,939 ratings — published 1934
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,855 ratings — published 2003
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,473 ratings — published 2005
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,762 ratings — published 1973
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,676 ratings — published 1980
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,201 ratings — published 2003
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,083 ratings — published 1985
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 610 ratings — published 1930
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,678 ratings — published 2019
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,603,410 ratings — published 1945
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,379 ratings — published 1991
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 463 ratings — published 1931
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,541 ratings — published 2016
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,119 ratings — published 1981
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,308 ratings — published 1949
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,092,304 ratings — published 1932
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,673 ratings — published 2013
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,843 ratings — published 1993
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,983 ratings — published 1925
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,929 ratings — published 1973
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,325 ratings — published 2002
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,786 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 — 6,088 ratings — published 2010
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,099 ratings — published 1980
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 25,413 ratings — published 2021
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,680 ratings — published 1936
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,639 ratings — published 2019
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,533 ratings — published 1991
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,524,424 ratings — published 1948
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
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“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
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