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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,975,911 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,002,678 ratings — published 1925
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 405 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,849,141 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,242,463 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,649,517 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,878,618 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,067,889 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,034,980 ratings — published 1623
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,579,687 ratings — published 1948
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,896,234 ratings — published 1953
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.44 — 928,629 ratings — published 1850
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,939,447 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,380,110 ratings — published 1956
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,939,037 ratings — published 1818
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,213,382 ratings — published -800
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 202 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,843,985 ratings — published 1993
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 199 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,344,664 ratings — published 1885
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,636,769 ratings — published 1967
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 469,369 ratings — published 1953
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,244,223 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,106,488 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,885,815 ratings — published 1813
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.43 — 565,050 ratings — published 1899
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,358,346 ratings — published 1847
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 350,503 ratings — published 1000
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.75 — 418,019 ratings — published 1958
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,209,129 ratings — published 1847
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 392,378 ratings — published 1937
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 441,434 ratings — published 1603
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 221,963 ratings — published 1599
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 584,037 ratings — published 1595
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,472,285 ratings — published 1915
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,020,950 ratings — published 1859
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 882,262 ratings — published 1861
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,006,039 ratings — published 1939
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.73 — 240,024 ratings — published -429
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,476,984 ratings — published 1985
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 233,842 ratings — published 1959
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,010 ratings — published 1949
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,335,565 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 499,113 ratings — published 1987
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 229,926 ratings — published 1899
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 179,766 ratings — published -441
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,446,375 ratings — published 1942
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.53 — 239,478 ratings — published 1400
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 517,583 ratings — published -800
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 349,422 ratings — published 1990
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,499,481 ratings — published 1969
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.09 — 949,490 ratings — published 1843
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,925,754 ratings — published 1890
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