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The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.89 — 341,360 ratings — published 1943
A Scanner Darkly (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.02 — 113,131 ratings — published 1977
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,407 ratings — published 1988
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,274 ratings — published 1900
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.85 — 308,792 ratings — published 1891
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 290,956 ratings — published 1991
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,435 ratings — published 1992
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.40 — 412,344 ratings — published 1879
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,595,091 ratings — published 1943
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,782,200 ratings — published 1945
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.69 — 411,656 ratings — published 1957
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,656,235 ratings — published 2020
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.92 — 246,776 ratings — published 1852
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.79 — 157,705 ratings — published 1906
Amsterdam (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.47 — 62,525 ratings — published 1998
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.13 — 537,556 ratings — published 2022
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.11 — 964,636 ratings — published 1878
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.05 — 186,755 ratings — published 1872
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,993,599 ratings — published 1818
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,190,156 ratings — published 1936
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,985 ratings — published 2017
Far From the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 170,573 ratings — published 1874
The Death of Bunny Munro (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.44 — 18,275 ratings — published 2009
Little Unicorn Is Angry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.57 — 250 ratings — published 2018
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,991,555 ratings — published 1890
The Rabbit Listened (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,683 ratings — published 2018
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,414 ratings — published 2007
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,737,551 ratings — published 1988
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,221,629 ratings — published 1950
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.09 — 912,604 ratings — published 1922
Give Please a Chance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.36 — 584 ratings — published 2016
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,927 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 — 1,635 ratings — published 2012
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,539 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 — 104,406 ratings — published 2014
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,955 ratings — published
The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,381 ratings — published 2007
We the Living (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,211 ratings — published 1936
A Knight of the Word (Word & Void, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,287 ratings — published 1998
Turtle Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,985 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 3.92 — 74 ratings — published 2001
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.01 — 45,222 ratings — published 1965
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,515 ratings — published 1845
Averil Offline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.12 — 448 ratings — published 2024
The Girl and the Robot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 3.74 — 145 ratings — published
Plus-size Patternmaking for Womenswear: Inclusive Sizing, Pattern Drafting, and Fitting (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
Misinformation, Disinformation, and Censorship (Get Informed, Stay Informed)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.19 — 888,593 ratings — published 2008
Me, Myselfie & I: A Cautionary Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 3.31 — 224 ratings — published 2018
“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
