Didactic Books
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The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.89 — 336,867 ratings — published 1943
A Scanner Darkly (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.03 — 110,019 ratings — published 1977
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,608 ratings — published 1988
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.78 — 41,734 ratings — published 1900
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.84 — 301,936 ratings — published 1891
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 281,199 ratings — published 1991
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,134 ratings — published 1992
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,513,957 ratings — published 1945
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.39 — 383,853 ratings — published 1880
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.69 — 406,353 ratings — published 1957
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,425,525 ratings — published 2020
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,457,669 ratings — published 1943
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.92 — 242,224 ratings — published 1852
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,306 ratings — published 1906
Amsterdam (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.47 — 60,092 ratings — published 1998
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.15 — 461,077 ratings — published 2022
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,290,869 ratings — published 1811
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.10 — 927,061 ratings — published 1878
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.04 — 178,680 ratings — published 1872
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,869,897 ratings — published 1818
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,142,204 ratings — published 1936
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.28 — 99,874 ratings — published 2017
Far From the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 165,813 ratings — published 1874
The Death of Bunny Munro (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.44 — 17,412 ratings — published 2009
Little Unicorn Is Angry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.55 — 241 ratings — published 2018
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,862,127 ratings — published 1890
The Rabbit Listened (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,086 ratings — published 2018
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,056 ratings — published 2007
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,543,088 ratings — published 1988
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,136,020 ratings — published 1950
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.08 — 872,273 ratings — published 1922
Give Please a Chance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.35 — 581 ratings — published 2016
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,536 ratings — published -55
Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable . . . Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,570 ratings — published 2012
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,973 ratings — published 1999
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.15 — 99,093 ratings — published 2014
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.07 — 83,100 ratings — published
The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,342 ratings — published 2007
We the Living (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.96 — 30,736 ratings — published 1936
Turtle Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,818 ratings — published 1992
Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the “Illegal Alien” and the Remaking of the U.S. – Mexico Boundary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.89 — 74 ratings — published 2001
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,406 ratings — published 1965
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,551 ratings — published 1845
An Overdue Match (Checking Out Love, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,012 ratings — published 2025
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,183,707 ratings — published 1954
King of Magic, Man of Glass: A German Folk Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 1998
The Total Teacher: Understanding the Three Dimensions that Define Effective Educators (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,416 ratings — published 1886
Language through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 3.90 — 93 ratings — published 1981
This Plus That: Life's Little Equations – A Warm and Delightful Picture Book About Creative Parts for Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.03 — 871 ratings — published 2011
“I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion


