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Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,154 ratings — published 1978
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,982,196 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,954,534 ratings — published 1960
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as academic)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,532 ratings — published 1848
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as academic)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,835 ratings — published 1989
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,842,597 ratings — published 1590
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,958 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as academic)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,394 ratings — published 1975
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 387,094 ratings — published 1532
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,031,351 ratings — published 1623
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,626,204 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,551,934 ratings — published 1948
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,208,053 ratings — published -800
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,544 ratings — published 1983
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 228,117 ratings — published -400
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,231,983 ratings — published 1954
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,679 ratings — published 1968
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,868,383 ratings — published 1937
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,280,962 ratings — published 2011
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,063,918 ratings — published 1601
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,927,812 ratings — published 1818
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 596,525 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,871 ratings — published 1997
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,431 ratings — published 1918
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,926,388 ratings — published 1951
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,892 ratings — published 1949
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,396 ratings — published 2010
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 926,454 ratings — published 1850
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,126 ratings — published 1961
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,615 ratings — published 1952
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,881,329 ratings — published 1953
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,573 ratings — published 2017
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 483,290 ratings — published 1988
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,151 ratings — published 1981
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,506 ratings — published 1000
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 — 172,687 ratings — published 2019
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 515,656 ratings — published -800
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,548 ratings — published 2005
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,120 ratings — published 2007
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 30,214 ratings — published 1962
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,285 ratings — published 1904
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,231,584 ratings — published 1947
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,349,612 ratings — published 1847
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 440,242 ratings — published 1603
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,099,077 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,866,938 ratings — published 1813
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,409 ratings — published 1995
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,883 ratings — published 1981
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 58,551 ratings — published 1762
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,434,897 ratings — published 1942
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