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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 476 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,022,406 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 416 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,046,904 ratings — published 1925
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,863,092 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,266,698 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,699,462 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,900,914 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,075,536 ratings — published 1601
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,636,594 ratings — published 1948
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 274 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,042,247 ratings — published 1623
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,925,493 ratings — published 1963
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.44 — 933,049 ratings — published 1850
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,961,821 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,388,362 ratings — published 1956
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,959,535 ratings — published 1818
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,226,057 ratings — published -700
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,655,025 ratings — published 1967
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 202 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,862,451 ratings — published 1993
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 198 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346,680 ratings — published 1885
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 471,929 ratings — published 1953
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,271,604 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,121,063 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,925,185 ratings — published 1813
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.43 — 568,507 ratings — published 1899
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,376,363 ratings — published 1847
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.75 — 420,776 ratings — published 1958
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 352,411 ratings — published 1000
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,240,727 ratings — published 1847
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 395,164 ratings — published 1937
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 444,449 ratings — published 1603
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 223,386 ratings — published 1599
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 586,953 ratings — published 1595
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,497,448 ratings — published 1915
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,025,380 ratings — published 1859
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 886,531 ratings — published 1861
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,012,600 ratings — published 1939
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.73 — 241,338 ratings — published -429
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,503,736 ratings — published 1985
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 234,635 ratings — published 1959
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.59 — 263,774 ratings — published 1949
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,347,756 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 503,910 ratings — published 1987
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 231,155 ratings — published 1899
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,470,827 ratings — published 1942
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.53 — 240,305 ratings — published 1400
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 86 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 181,165 ratings — published -441
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 523,380 ratings — published -800
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 351,957 ratings — published 1990
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,508,530 ratings — published 1969
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,948,783 ratings — published 1890
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,559,872 ratings — published 2003
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