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Required Reading Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 471 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,928,694 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,957,434 ratings — published 1925
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 403 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,834,868 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,219,914 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,598,630 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,856,197 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,058,919 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,027,159 ratings — published 1623
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,518,751 ratings — published 1948
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,864,885 ratings — published 1953
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.44 — 924,044 ratings — published 1850
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,914,278 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,371,433 ratings — published 1956
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,913,508 ratings — published 1818
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,202,111 ratings — published -800
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 202 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,825,100 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 — 1,340,700 ratings — published 1885
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,618,727 ratings — published 1967
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 466,539 ratings — published 1953
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,216,708 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,090,878 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,843,347 ratings — published 1813
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.43 — 561,440 ratings — published 1899
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,339,356 ratings — published 1847
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,409 ratings — published 1000
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.75 — 415,027 ratings — published 1958
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,138,495 ratings — published 1847
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 389,093 ratings — published 1937
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 438,772 ratings — published 1603
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 220,461 ratings — published 1599
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 581,105 ratings — published 1595
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,448,372 ratings — published 1915
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,016,559 ratings — published 1859
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 878,050 ratings — published 1861
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 999,757 ratings — published 1939
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.73 — 238,653 ratings — published -429
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,449,136 ratings — published 1985
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 233,018 ratings — published 1959
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.59 — 260,359 ratings — published 1949
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 494,301 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,323,514 ratings — published 1952
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 228,530 ratings — published 1899
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.53 — 238,650 ratings — published 1400
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 86 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 178,243 ratings — published -441
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,421,880 ratings — published 1942
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 347,021 ratings — published 1990
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 513,377 ratings — published -800
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.09 — 944,667 ratings — published 1843
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,901,020 ratings — published 1890
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,490,747 ratings — published 1969
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