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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,939,781 ratings — published 1925
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as academic)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,801 ratings — published 1978
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,910,183 ratings — published 1960
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as academic)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,645 ratings — published 1989
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as academic)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,292 ratings — published 1848
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,829,307 ratings — published 1590
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,733 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as academic)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,094 ratings — published 1975
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 384,272 ratings — published 1532
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,024,039 ratings — published 1623
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,577,990 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,493,521 ratings — published 1948
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as academic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,197,747 ratings — published -800
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,425 ratings — published 1983
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,211,130 ratings — published 1954
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,743 ratings — published -400
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,348 ratings — published 1968
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,847,321 ratings — published 1937
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as academic)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,320 ratings — published 2011
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,055,247 ratings — published 1601
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,902,533 ratings — published 1818
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 591,529 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,113 ratings — published 1997
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,224 ratings — published 1918
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,905,295 ratings — published 1951
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,518 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 — 117,590 ratings — published 2010
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 922,152 ratings — published 1850
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,627 ratings — published 1961
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,294 ratings — published 1952
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,018 ratings — published 2017
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,852,994 ratings — published 1953
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 480,736 ratings — published 1988
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as academic)
avg rating 3.50 — 348,578 ratings — published 1000
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,703 ratings — published 1981
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.34 — 169,802 ratings — published 2019
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 511,674 ratings — published -800
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,097 ratings — published 2005
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,089 ratings — published 2007
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 30,033 ratings — published 1962
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,171 ratings — published 1904
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,825,551 ratings — published 1813
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,084,886 ratings — published 1932
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,332,147 ratings — published 1847
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 437,875 ratings — published 1603
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,205,753 ratings — published 1947
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,400 ratings — published 1995
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,702 ratings — published 1981
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 58,101 ratings — published 1762
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,226 ratings — published 1957
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