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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 470 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,838,260 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 409 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,873,337 ratings — published 1925
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 405 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,810,914 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,182,097 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,510,073 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,816,971 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,044,971 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,015,006 ratings — published 1623
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,412,505 ratings — published 1949
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 250 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,812,088 ratings — published 1953
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.44 — 915,848 ratings — published 1850
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,873,690 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,356,883 ratings — published 1956
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,867,950 ratings — published 1818
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,185,014 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 — 1,334,582 ratings — published 1885
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,587,932 ratings — published 1967
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,791,017 ratings — published 1993
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,291 ratings — published 1953
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,165,068 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,065,383 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,766,365 ratings — published 1813
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.43 — 556,444 ratings — published 1899
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,310,487 ratings — published 1847
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,028,651 ratings — published 1847
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 345,087 ratings — published 1000
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 411,025 ratings — published 1958
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,002 ratings — published 1937
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 435,266 ratings — published 1603
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 576,742 ratings — published 1595
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 218,703 ratings — published 1599
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,409,709 ratings — published 1915
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 870,768 ratings — published 1861
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,009,434 ratings — published 1859
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 990,056 ratings — published 1939
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.73 — 236,570 ratings — published -429
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,402,040 ratings — published 1985
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.59 — 258,040 ratings — published 1949
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 231,793 ratings — published 1959
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,385,232 ratings — published 1942
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 488,326 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,303,856 ratings — published 1952
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.53 — 237,375 ratings — published 1400
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 226,631 ratings — published 1899
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.68 — 175,802 ratings — published -441
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.09 — 930,172 ratings — published 1843
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.14 — 343,647 ratings — published 1990
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 507,146 ratings — published -800
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,477,307 ratings — published 1969
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,860,469 ratings — published 1890
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