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The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,518 ratings — published 1788
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,280,472 ratings — published 1947
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,758 ratings — published -430
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.28 — 370,136 ratings — published 180
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.93 — 524,979 ratings — published -750
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.50 — 352,994 ratings — published 1000
Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.01 — 40,611 ratings — published 1776
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.84 — 394,856 ratings — published 1513
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,057 ratings — published -1800
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,166 ratings — published -400
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,417 ratings — published 1835
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,778 ratings — published 1859
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,600 ratings — published 1848
The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.44 — 27,709 ratings — published 1776
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,507 ratings — published -400
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.94 — 588,303 ratings — published -500
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.01 — 76,925 ratings — published 400
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,087 ratings — published 1830
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,231,073 ratings — published -700
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,089 ratings — published 1220
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,427 ratings — published -350
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,662 ratings — published 1776
City of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,017 ratings — published 426
The Book of Margery Kempe (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.30 — 5,091 ratings — published 1438
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,896 ratings — published 8
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.88 — 146,741 ratings — published -19
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,007 ratings — published -29
Letters from Russia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.08 — 593 ratings — published 1843
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,008 ratings — published 110
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,339 ratings — published -1500
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,693 ratings — published 1845
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.31 — 283,345 ratings — published 2020
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,227,071 ratings — published 2018
The History of the Franks (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,601 ratings — published 590
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,390,693 ratings — published 1956
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.13 — 46,991 ratings — published -400
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,250 ratings — published -411
The Life of Charlemagne (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,073 ratings — published 818
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.29 — 186,265 ratings — published -350
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,871 ratings — published -50
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,819 ratings — published -55
The Later Roman Empire (AD 354 - 378)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,302 ratings — published 391
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,189 ratings — published 890
The Ten Books on Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,782 ratings — published -15
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,549 ratings — published -380
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,076 ratings — published 1716
The Holy Bible: King James Version (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.45 — 325,091 ratings — published 1611
Mein Kampf (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.18 — 44,238 ratings — published 1925
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.89 — 35,434 ratings — published 1776
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,346 ratings — published 1791
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