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Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,493 ratings — published 1978
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,149,300 ratings — published 1925
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,150 ratings — published 1848
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,130,009 ratings — published 1960
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,569 ratings — published 1989
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,893,193 ratings — published 1590
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,697 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as academic)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,490 ratings — published 1975
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,361 ratings — published 1513
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,057,388 ratings — published 1623
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,817,224 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,773,582 ratings — published 1949
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as academic)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,288,342 ratings — published -800
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,051 ratings — published 1983
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,355 ratings — published -400
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as academic)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,319,291 ratings — published 1954
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,094 ratings — published 1968
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as academic)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,383 ratings — published 2011
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,091,904 ratings — published 1601
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,006,358 ratings — published 1818
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,955,554 ratings — published 1937
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,787 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,461 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 — 16,680 ratings — published 2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,494 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,016,322 ratings — published 1951
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,567 ratings — published 2010
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 942,745 ratings — published 1850
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as academic)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,030 ratings — published 1961
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,314 ratings — published 1949
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,995,798 ratings — published 1963
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,663 ratings — published 1952
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 494,130 ratings — published 1988
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,843 ratings — published 1981
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,750 ratings — published 2019
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 3.51 — 357,235 ratings — published 950
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,901 ratings — published 2005
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,220 ratings — published 2007
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,171 ratings — published 1962
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 3.94 — 538,018 ratings — published -750
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,685 ratings — published 1904
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 449,147 ratings — published 1603
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,417,225 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,530,870 ratings — published 1942
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,492 ratings — published 1995
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,591 ratings — published 1981
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 55,061 ratings — published 1651
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,335,731 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,156,578 ratings — published 1932
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,015,877 ratings — published 1813
“She never knew how
Hard it could truly get until
She was drowning, just
Beneath the surface,
Unable to catch even a
Breath of air as she
Strangled herself, encumbering
Herself with
Meaningless tasks and studies, burdening
Herself with
Meaningless thoughts and duties,
No matter how much her heart
Willed her to rest,
Her brain told her to
Keep going, and, inevitably,
She broke”
―
Hard it could truly get until
She was drowning, just
Beneath the surface,
Unable to catch even a
Breath of air as she
Strangled herself, encumbering
Herself with
Meaningless tasks and studies, burdening
Herself with
Meaningless thoughts and duties,
No matter how much her heart
Willed her to rest,
Her brain told her to
Keep going, and, inevitably,
She broke”
―
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I learned about developmental psychology and social psychology, I learned on my own. I was an outsider looking in, and that has made all the difference. I did not buy
into the assumptions of the academic establishment. I was not indebted to their granting agencies. And, once I had given up writing textbooks, I was not required to perpetuate the status quo by teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students. I gave up writing textbooks because one day it suddenly occurred to me that many of the things I had been telling those credulous college students were wrong.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
into the assumptions of the academic establishment. I was not indebted to their granting agencies. And, once I had given up writing textbooks, I was not required to perpetuate the status quo by teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students. I gave up writing textbooks because one day it suddenly occurred to me that many of the things I had been telling those credulous college students were wrong.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
