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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 483 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,123,394 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 422 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,143,030 ratings — published 1925
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,890,931 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,315,946 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,809,492 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,951,917 ratings — published 1937
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,764,704 ratings — published 1949
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,090,534 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,055,510 ratings — published 1623
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,991,175 ratings — published 1963
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,012,801 ratings — published 1951
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.44 — 942,060 ratings — published 1850
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,402,885 ratings — published 1956
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,002,835 ratings — published 1818
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,285,424 ratings — published -800
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 208 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,904,386 ratings — published 1993
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,689,610 ratings — published 1967
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 201 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,353,927 ratings — published 1885
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 476,760 ratings — published 1953
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,331,587 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,154,141 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,010,016 ratings — published 1813
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,414,435 ratings — published 1847
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.43 — 575,621 ratings — published 1899
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,341 ratings — published 1958
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,293,772 ratings — published 1847
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 356,851 ratings — published 950
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 448,848 ratings — published 1603
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,689 ratings — published 1937
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.72 — 225,922 ratings — published 1599
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 593,584 ratings — published 1595
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,560,223 ratings — published 1915
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,034,176 ratings — published 1859
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 895,210 ratings — published 1861
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,027,909 ratings — published 1939
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.73 — 243,816 ratings — published -429
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,561,186 ratings — published 1985
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 514,513 ratings — published 1987
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 236,323 ratings — published 1959
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 266,866 ratings — published 1949
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 233,717 ratings — published 1899
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,376,229 ratings — published 1952
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,526,746 ratings — published 1942
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 356,179 ratings — published 1990
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 183,988 ratings — published -441
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,003,412 ratings — published 1890
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,948 ratings — published 1400
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,528,005 ratings — published 1969
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,093 ratings — published -750
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,611,444 ratings — published 2003
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