49 books
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6 voters
Old School Books
Showing 1-50 of 6,409
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,060,072 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,082,233 ratings — published 1925
Old School (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #10)
by (shelved 40 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.28 — 72,488 ratings — published 2015
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,955,995 ratings — published 1813
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,284,997 ratings — published 1954
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,873,709 ratings — published 1590
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,979,622 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,948,286 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,918,527 ratings — published 1937
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,744,209 ratings — published 1945
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,668,737 ratings — published 1967
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,520,855 ratings — published 1868
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,390,220 ratings — published 1847
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,144,748 ratings — published 1908
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,680,853 ratings — published 1948
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,261,342 ratings — published 1847
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.44 — 936,428 ratings — published 1850
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,080,932 ratings — published 1601
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,878,247 ratings — published 1993
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,306,658 ratings — published 1962
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,581,653 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,349,287 ratings — published 1885
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,028,557 ratings — published 1859
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,240,561 ratings — published -700
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,967,644 ratings — published 1890
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,065,741 ratings — published 1846
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,357,383 ratings — published 1952
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,091,070 ratings — published 1952
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,293,856 ratings — published 1947
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,325,840 ratings — published 1811
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,017,907 ratings — published 1939
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,975,421 ratings — published 1818
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,012,447 ratings — published 1815
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,047,059 ratings — published 1623
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.80 — 462,284 ratings — published 1987
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,523,910 ratings — published 1897
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,327,454 ratings — published 1911
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,038,409 ratings — published 1876
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,208,307 ratings — published 1950
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.94 — 589,289 ratings — published 1595
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,257,215 ratings — published 1964
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,532,749 ratings — published 1974
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,216,768 ratings — published 1954
The Three Musketeers (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.10 — 352,799 ratings — published 1844
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.20 — 633,138 ratings — published 1989
Where the Red Fern Grows (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.13 — 448,339 ratings — published 1961
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as old-school)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,389,797 ratings — published 1998
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.78 — 506,451 ratings — published 1926
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,458,942 ratings — published 2005
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as old-school)
avg rating 3.92 — 483,705 ratings — published 1903
“If you believe the American work ethic is ‘old school,’ you’d better repeat the class.”
― Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
― Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Yeah, just what I needed, a massive three-day Hostess binge, followed by a week of trying to replicate recipes so that if no one decides to buy and reissue Twinkies and Suzy Q's, I'll be all set. It was a ridiculous endeavor, since most of the experience of Hostess is in the slightly plasticky tastes and textures, which cannot be replicated in a home kitchen. You can make a delicious moist yellow cake and fill it with a marshmallowy vanilla cream, and it will be spectacular, trust me; I ate at least a dozen. But it won't taste like a Twinkie. The cake won't have the springiness, the filling won't have the fluff, and it is impossible to get those three little dots in the bottom. Which would be fine, since I hadn't actually eaten a Hostess product for the better part of a decade, hadn't missed them either. But that little news item hit, and in a Pavlovian fit of nostalgia, I was off to the local gas station to load up on white boxes with blue and red details. Twinkies, Sno Balls, Ding Dongs... even a cherry Fruit Pie. All of them the flavors of my youth, and proof that there are certain things you should leave as fond memories, since they don't really hold up.”
― Out to Lunch
― Out to Lunch












