Primary Source Books
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The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,289 ratings — published 1788
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,237,357 ratings — published 1947
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,125 ratings — published -430
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.28 — 359,908 ratings — published 180
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.93 — 516,558 ratings — published -800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.50 — 350,010 ratings — published 1000
Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.00 — 40,101 ratings — published 1776
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,691 ratings — published -1200
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,048 ratings — published -400
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,506 ratings — published -350
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,227 ratings — published 1835
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.01 — 122,803 ratings — published 1859
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.69 — 202,100 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 — 27,596 ratings — published 1776
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.97 — 228,432 ratings — published -400
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.84 — 387,790 ratings — published 1532
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.94 — 580,290 ratings — published -500
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.00 — 75,484 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 — 2,055 ratings — published 1830
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,210,410 ratings — published -800
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,939 ratings — published 1220
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,575 ratings — published 1776
City of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,873 ratings — published 426
The Book of Margery Kempe (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.30 — 5,035 ratings — published 1438
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,177 ratings — published 8
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,146 ratings — published -19
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,988 ratings — published 110
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,264 ratings — published -1500
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,591 ratings — published 1845
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.31 — 279,770 ratings — published 2020
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,213,334 ratings — published 2018
The History of the Franks (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,593 ratings — published 590
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,377,975 ratings — published 1956
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,535 ratings — published -400
The Life of Charlemagne (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,060 ratings — published 818
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.29 — 184,426 ratings — published -350
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,719 ratings — published -50
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,700 ratings — published -55
The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,290 ratings — published 391
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,176 ratings — published 890
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,905 ratings — published -380
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,918 ratings — published 1716
The Holy Bible: King James Version (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.45 — 321,825 ratings — published 1611
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler's Totalitarian Vision—Essential Lessons in Vigilance, Responsibility, and Opposing Evil (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.18 — 43,802 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 — 35,204 ratings — published 1776
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.85 — 92,540 ratings — published 1791
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,821 ratings — published 1320
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 4.18 — 58,666 ratings — published 1861
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.53 — 239,256 ratings — published 1400
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primary-source)
avg rating 3.92 — 39,671 ratings — published 1485
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