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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,797,483 ratings — published 1925
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,947 ratings — published 1978
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as academic)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,082 ratings — published 1989
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,758,342 ratings — published 1960
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,787,940 ratings — published 1590
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as academic)
avg rating 3.68 — 192,448 ratings — published 1848
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,225 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as academic)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,223 ratings — published 1975
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 376,078 ratings — published 1513
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,002,100 ratings — published 1623
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,427,545 ratings — published 1945
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,068 ratings — published 1983
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,357 ratings — published 1968
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,313,957 ratings — published 1949
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as academic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,169,438 ratings — published -700
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,147,369 ratings — published 1954
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,371 ratings — published -400
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,781,374 ratings — published 1937
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,030,459 ratings — published 1601
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,224,490 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 573,764 ratings — published 2011
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,798,636 ratings — published 1818
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,755 ratings — published 1997
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,596 ratings — published 1918
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,927 ratings — published 2010
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,835,318 ratings — published 1951
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,466 ratings — published 1949
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,585 ratings — published 1952
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 471,752 ratings — published 1988
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 907,659 ratings — published 1850
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,273 ratings — published 1961
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as academic)
avg rating 3.50 — 341,221 ratings — published 1000
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,668 ratings — published 1981
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,761,649 ratings — published 1953
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 500,674 ratings — published -800
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 890,272 ratings — published 2005
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,457 ratings — published 1962
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 — 161,550 ratings — published 2019
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,698,161 ratings — published 1813
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,873 ratings — published 1904
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,950 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,117,285 ratings — published 1947
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,941 ratings — published 1957
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,319 ratings — published 1995
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,223 ratings — published 1981
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 431,119 ratings — published 1603
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 56,529 ratings — published 1762
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as academic)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,759,748 ratings — published 1993
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as academic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,040,277 ratings — published 1932
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,283,005 ratings — published 1846
“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit themselves absolutely to specialized goals, to seek the purest manifestation of any possible phenomenon that they are investigating, to create laboratories that are far more controlled than you would ever find in industry, and to ignore any constraints imposed by, as it were, realism. Further down the scale, people who understand and want to exploit results of basic science have to do a great deal more work to adapt and select the results, and combine the results from different sources, to produce something that is applicable, useful, and profitable on an acceptable time scale.”
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