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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 470 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,837,695 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 409 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,872,812 ratings — published 1925
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 405 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,810,777 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,181,859 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,509,637 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,816,738 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,044,909 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,014,947 ratings — published 1623
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,412,051 ratings — published 1949
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 250 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,811,804 ratings — published 1953
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.44 — 915,781 ratings — published 1850
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,873,476 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,356,778 ratings — published 1956
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,867,716 ratings — published 1818
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,184,895 ratings — published -700
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 201 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,334,547 ratings — published 1885
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,587,701 ratings — published 1967
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,790,729 ratings — published 1993
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,265 ratings — published 1953
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,164,789 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,065,288 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,766,008 ratings — published 1813
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.43 — 556,418 ratings — published 1899
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,310,354 ratings — published 1847
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,028,447 ratings — published 1847
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 345,063 ratings — published 1000
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 411,007 ratings — published 1958
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 384,968 ratings — published 1937
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 435,256 ratings — published 1603
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 576,728 ratings — published 1595
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 218,690 ratings — published 1599
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,409,563 ratings — published 1915
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 870,727 ratings — published 1861
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,009,389 ratings — published 1859
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 990,011 ratings — published 1939
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.73 — 236,563 ratings — published -429
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,401,815 ratings — published 1985
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.59 — 258,025 ratings — published 1949
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 231,784 ratings — published 1959
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,385,096 ratings — published 1942
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 488,286 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,303,771 ratings — published 1952
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.53 — 237,367 ratings — published 1400
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 226,616 ratings — published 1899
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.68 — 175,795 ratings — published -441
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.09 — 930,014 ratings — published 1843
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.14 — 343,616 ratings — published 1990
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 507,109 ratings — published -800
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,477,235 ratings — published 1969
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,860,318 ratings — published 1890
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