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A Scanner Darkly (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.02 — 113,819 ratings — published 1977
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.89 — 342,270 ratings — published 1943
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,430 ratings — published 1900
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,786 ratings — published 1988
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.85 — 310,223 ratings — published 1891
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 293,191 ratings — published 1991
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,886 ratings — published 1992
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.40 — 418,626 ratings — published 1879
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,621,249 ratings — published 1943
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,836,586 ratings — published 1945
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.69 — 412,687 ratings — published 1957
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,700,019 ratings — published 2020
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.92 — 247,666 ratings — published 1852
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.79 — 158,451 ratings — published 1906
Amsterdam (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.48 — 63,013 ratings — published 1998
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.12 — 550,363 ratings — published 2022
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.11 — 972,349 ratings — published 1878
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.05 — 188,560 ratings — published 1872
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,017,749 ratings — published 1818
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,199,626 ratings — published 1936
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,135 ratings — published 2017
Far From the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 171,625 ratings — published 1874
The Death of Bunny Munro (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.44 — 18,400 ratings — published 2009
Little Unicorn Is Angry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.57 — 249 ratings — published 2018
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,018,390 ratings — published 1890
The Rabbit Listened (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,803 ratings — published 2018
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,691 ratings — published 2007
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,772,324 ratings — published 1988
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,236,951 ratings — published 1950
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.09 — 919,508 ratings — published 1922
Give Please a Chance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.36 — 585 ratings — published 2016
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,040 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 — 1,644 ratings — published 2012
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,630 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 — 105,393 ratings — published 2014
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,717 ratings — published 1984
The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,383 ratings — published 2007
We the Living (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,308 ratings — published 1936
A Knight of the Word (Word & Void, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,314 ratings — published 1998
Turtle Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,017 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 — 45,561 ratings — published 1965
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as didactic)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,575 ratings — published 1845
The Lies Couples Believe: How Living the Truth Transforms Your Marriage (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 3.97 — 58 ratings — published 2015
Bored Panda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 3.86 — 331 ratings — published 2025
Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.23 — 236,699 ratings — published 1909
Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.03 — 76,569 ratings — published 1939
Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.00 — 115,785 ratings — published 1936
Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.29 — 201,742 ratings — published 1915
Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)
by (shelved 1 time as didactic)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,146 ratings — published 1919
“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
