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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 466 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,784,939 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 405 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,822,488 ratings — published 1925
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,795,579 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,159,071 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,454,987 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,793,232 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,035,456 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,006,394 ratings — published 1623
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,347,905 ratings — published 1949
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.44 — 910,425 ratings — published 1850
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 246 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,778,408 ratings — published 1953
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,848,511 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,348,660 ratings — published 1956
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,174,783 ratings — published -700
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,822,248 ratings — published 1818
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,330,212 ratings — published 1885
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 197 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,769,996 ratings — published 1993
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,569,479 ratings — published 1967
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 458,514 ratings — published 1953
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,133,709 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,048,844 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,722,829 ratings — published 1813
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,292,416 ratings — published 1847
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.43 — 552,725 ratings — published 1899
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,999,567 ratings — published 1847
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 408,171 ratings — published 1958
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 342,747 ratings — published 1000
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 382,405 ratings — published 1937
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 432,543 ratings — published 1603
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 573,855 ratings — published 1595
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 217,448 ratings — published 1599
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,384,058 ratings — published 1915
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 866,082 ratings — published 1861
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,004,879 ratings — published 1859
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.02 — 983,676 ratings — published 1939
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.73 — 235,035 ratings — published -429
The Handmaid's Tale: The Seminal Work of Dystopian Feminist Fiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,375,064 ratings — published 1985
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.59 — 256,393 ratings — published 1949
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 230,926 ratings — published 1959
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,359,420 ratings — published 1942
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,290,766 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.98 — 484,131 ratings — published 1987
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.52 — 236,353 ratings — published 1400
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.68 — 173,902 ratings — published -441
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 225,154 ratings — published 1899
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 503,057 ratings — published -800
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.09 — 905,774 ratings — published 1843
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.14 — 341,391 ratings — published 1990
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,468,280 ratings — published 1969
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,008,447 ratings — published 1876
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