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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,076,351 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 420 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,097,998 ratings — published 1925
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,878,265 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,293,023 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,762,281 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,926,908 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,083,327 ratings — published 1601
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,393 ratings — published 1949
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,049,100 ratings — published 1623
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,357 ratings — published 1963
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,987,659 ratings — published 1951
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.44 — 937,848 ratings — published 1850
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,396,304 ratings — published 1956
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,982,157 ratings — published 1818
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,254,891 ratings — published -750
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 206 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,885,178 ratings — published 1993
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 201 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,350,385 ratings — published 1885
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,674,210 ratings — published 1967
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 474,492 ratings — published 1953
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,303,263 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,137,566 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,969,592 ratings — published 1813
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,396,173 ratings — published 1847
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.43 — 572,136 ratings — published 1899
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,728 ratings — published 1958
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 354,566 ratings — published 1000
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,269,839 ratings — published 1847
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 446,703 ratings — published 1603
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 398,148 ratings — published 1937
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,687 ratings — published 1599
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 590,239 ratings — published 1595
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,524,878 ratings — published 1915
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,029,943 ratings — published 1859
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 890,959 ratings — published 1861
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,020,252 ratings — published 1939
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.73 — 242,597 ratings — published -429
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,100 ratings — published 1985
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 235,522 ratings — published 1959
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.59 — 265,449 ratings — published 1949
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 509,597 ratings — published 1987
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 232,446 ratings — published 1899
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,361,950 ratings — published 1952
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,497,896 ratings — published 1942
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,145 ratings — published 1400
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 182,567 ratings — published -441
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 354,273 ratings — published 1990
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 530,144 ratings — published -750
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,518,432 ratings — published 1969
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,089 ratings — published 1890
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,586,262 ratings — published 2003
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