205 books
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Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,850 ratings — published 1978
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,062,990 ratings — published 1925
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as academic)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,675 ratings — published 1848
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,039,192 ratings — published 1960
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,228 ratings — published 1989
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,868,038 ratings — published 1590
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,361 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as academic)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,902 ratings — published 1975
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 394,962 ratings — published 1513
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,044,669 ratings — published 1623
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,717,209 ratings — published 1945
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,231,664 ratings — published -700
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,656,421 ratings — published 1948
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,821 ratings — published 1983
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,556 ratings — published -400
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,275,146 ratings — published 1954
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,385 ratings — published 1968
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,077,952 ratings — published 1601
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as academic)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,304,629 ratings — published 2011
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,966,351 ratings — published 1818
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,908,770 ratings — published 1937
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 606,657 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,494 ratings — published 1997
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,828 ratings — published 1918
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as academic)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,726 ratings — published 2017
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,969,758 ratings — published 1951
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as academic)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,498 ratings — published 2010
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as academic)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,125 ratings — published 1961
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,669 ratings — published 1949
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 934,537 ratings — published 1850
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,155 ratings — published 1952
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,935,759 ratings — published 1963
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 488,509 ratings — published 1988
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,977 ratings — published 1981
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 3.50 — 353,055 ratings — published 1000
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 4.33 — 177,786 ratings — published 2019
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 906,704 ratings — published 2005
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 525,185 ratings — published -750
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,169 ratings — published 2007
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,728 ratings — published 1962
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,482 ratings — published 1904
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 445,166 ratings — published 1603
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,382,660 ratings — published 1847
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,281,460 ratings — published 1947
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,938,906 ratings — published 1813
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,460 ratings — published 1995
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,479,655 ratings — published 1942
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,211 ratings — published 1981
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 54,328 ratings — published 1651
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 59,409 ratings — published 1762
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