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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 528 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,791,025 ratings — published 1945
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.08 — 164,595 ratings — published 1678
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,307,869 ratings — published 1954
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 166 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,222,754 ratings — published 1950
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,740,366 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,597,184 ratings — published 1943
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,785,501 ratings — published 2001
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.35 — 61,935 ratings — published 1955
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 98 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.06 — 627,392 ratings — published 1955
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.32 — 194,211 ratings — published 1946
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 92 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 519,372 ratings — published 1952
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 86 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.98 — 498,978 ratings — published 1951
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 86 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 404,464 ratings — published 1954
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
by (shelved 83 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.01 — 314,654 ratings — published 1956
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 74 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.95 — 340,520 ratings — published 1953
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 70 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 721,992 ratings — published 1956
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.10 — 514,306 ratings — published 1972
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.27 — 549,687 ratings — published 1942
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 279,172 ratings — published 1970
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,546,350 ratings — published 1915
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,742,328 ratings — published 1949
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 85,470 ratings — published 1956
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 111,530 ratings — published 1938
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,661 ratings — published 1321
The Pilgrim's Regress (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,073 ratings — published 1933
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.82 — 48,597 ratings — published 1908
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,371,063 ratings — published 1952
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 313,114 ratings — published 1961
Beatrice and Virgil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.18 — 22,175 ratings — published 2010
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 63,006 ratings — published 1943
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.84 — 705,095 ratings — published 2007
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.19 — 362,381 ratings — published 1995
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,979,511 ratings — published 1963
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.61 — 475,962 ratings — published 1953
That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 48,262 ratings — published 1945
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 80,109 ratings — published 1884
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 447,719 ratings — published 1925
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,262,462 ratings — published 1964
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,897,674 ratings — published 1993
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.45 — 715,289 ratings — published 1952
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 127,913 ratings — published 2015
Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,794 ratings — published 2003
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.57 — 633,858 ratings — published 1851
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 304,765 ratings — published 1726
Kingdom's Dawn (Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,062 ratings — published 2001
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 913,298 ratings — published 1922
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 179,136 ratings — published 1304
White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 33,481 ratings — published 2003
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 331,535 ratings — published 1947
Red: The Heroic Rescue (The Circle, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 30,360 ratings — published 2004
“The Tentacled Maws by Stewart Stafford
Unhook the mind,
Put honesty in dispute,
From chosen blood,
Comes officious brute.
Tentacled things taking,
Malicious, maladroit maws,
In a hubris blizzard blind,
Behind lupine power doors.
Irradiated golden pockets,
Ragged wretches starving,
Dynasties sprouting weeds,
Names on plaques for carving.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Unhook the mind,
Put honesty in dispute,
From chosen blood,
Comes officious brute.
Tentacled things taking,
Malicious, maladroit maws,
In a hubris blizzard blind,
Behind lupine power doors.
Irradiated golden pockets,
Ragged wretches starving,
Dynasties sprouting weeds,
Names on plaques for carving.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law”
― The Pilgrim's Progress
― The Pilgrim's Progress
