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Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as academics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,091,831 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as academics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,057,321 ratings — published 1623
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as academics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,006,094 ratings — published 1818
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as academics)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,148,874 ratings — published 1925
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as academics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,955,286 ratings — published 1937
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as academics)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,288,142 ratings — published -800
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as academics)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,129,542 ratings — published 1960
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as academics)
avg rating 3.89 — 449,135 ratings — published 1603
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as academics)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,893,061 ratings — published 1590
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as academics)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,336 ratings — published 1513
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as academics)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,816,689 ratings — published 1945
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as academics)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,967 ratings — published -750
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as academics)
avg rating 3.43 — 576,148 ratings — published 1899
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as academics)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,772,951 ratings — published 1949
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as academics)
avg rating 3.51 — 357,207 ratings — published 950
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as academics)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,139,953 ratings — published 2021
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as academics)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,015,467 ratings — published 1813
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as academics)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,744 ratings — published 1958
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as academics)
avg rating 3.44 — 942,685 ratings — published 1850
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as academics)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,876 ratings — published 2005
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,404,230 ratings — published 1956
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.37 — 940,503 ratings — published 1946
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.78 — 234,846 ratings — published 1611
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,354,501 ratings — published 1885
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,346 ratings — published -400
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,399 ratings — published 1989
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,296,932 ratings — published 1847
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,489 ratings — published 1978
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,043 ratings — published 1400
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,492 ratings — published 1995
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,319,062 ratings — published 1954
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,156,407 ratings — published 1932
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,460 ratings — published 1918
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,016,050 ratings — published 1951
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as academics)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,091 ratings — published 1968
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.06 — 388,108 ratings — published 1892
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.77 — 170,474 ratings — published 1879
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.05 — 187,842 ratings — published 1872
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.33 — 310,405 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,717 ratings — published 2011
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,378,144 ratings — published 1952
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.36 — 305,468 ratings — published 1965
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.60 — 267,041 ratings — published 1949
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,029,020 ratings — published 1939
How to Write a Thesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,778 ratings — published 1977
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.80 — 895,867 ratings — published 1861
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,132 ratings — published 1848
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,653 ratings — published 1994
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,074 ratings — published 1976
How to Become a Straight-A Student (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as academics)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,935 ratings — published 2006
“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”
― Minor Snobs
― Minor Snobs
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions”
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