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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 463 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,742,153 ratings — published 1960
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 403 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,782,355 ratings — published 1925
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 399 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,783,410 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,140,471 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,411,354 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,774,378 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 272 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,027,752 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 999,752 ratings — published 1623
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,293,967 ratings — published 1949
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 246 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,751,930 ratings — published 1953
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.44 — 906,004 ratings — published 1850
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,827,531 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,342,301 ratings — published 1956
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,166,428 ratings — published -700
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,791,099 ratings — published 1818
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,324,402 ratings — published 1884
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,555,820 ratings — published 1967
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 195 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,753,640 ratings — published 1993
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.61 — 455,129 ratings — published 1953
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,107,135 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,034,851 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,682,635 ratings — published 1813
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.43 — 549,421 ratings — published 1899
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,277,811 ratings — published 1846
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.50 — 340,368 ratings — published 1000
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.74 — 405,779 ratings — published 1958
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,977,834 ratings — published 1847
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.89 — 430,390 ratings — published 1603
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.99 — 380,276 ratings — published 1937
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.71 — 216,425 ratings — published 1599
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.94 — 571,140 ratings — published 1595
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,363,397 ratings — published 1915
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.80 — 862,185 ratings — published 1861
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,001,139 ratings — published 1859
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.02 — 978,036 ratings — published 1939
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.72 — 233,474 ratings — published -429
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,352,367 ratings — published 1985
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.59 — 255,066 ratings — published 1949
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.60 — 230,289 ratings — published 1959
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,339,522 ratings — published 1942
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,279,413 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.97 — 480,813 ratings — published 1987
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.69 — 223,907 ratings — published 1899
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.52 — 235,565 ratings — published 1400
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.14 — 339,554 ratings — published 1990
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 83 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.68 — 171,984 ratings — published -441
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.09 — 901,440 ratings — published 1843
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.93 — 499,148 ratings — published -800
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as required-reading)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,003,362 ratings — published 1876
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as required-reading)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,460,594 ratings — published 1969
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