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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 527 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,740,854 ratings — published 1945
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.08 — 163,437 ratings — published 1678
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,283,441 ratings — published 1954
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 167 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,207,287 ratings — published 1950
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,699,931 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,567,300 ratings — published 1943
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,778,103 ratings — published 2001
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 99 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.06 — 623,337 ratings — published 1955
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.35 — 61,683 ratings — published 1955
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 92 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 516,978 ratings — published 1952
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.32 — 191,716 ratings — published 1946
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,014 ratings — published 1951
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 86 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 401,949 ratings — published 1954
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
by (shelved 84 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.01 — 312,747 ratings — published 1956
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 75 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.95 — 338,503 ratings — published 1953
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 69 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 719,166 ratings — published 1956
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.10 — 512,355 ratings — published 1972
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.27 — 543,649 ratings — published 1942
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 277,683 ratings — published 1970
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,676,840 ratings — published 1948
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,514,483 ratings — published 1915
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 84,513 ratings — published 1956
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 110,598 ratings — published 1938
The Pilgrim's Regress (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,013 ratings — published 1933
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,236 ratings — published 1321
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.82 — 48,086 ratings — published 1908
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,356,478 ratings — published 1952
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.19 — 311,864 ratings — published 1961
Beatrice and Virgil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.18 — 22,124 ratings — published 2010
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 62,450 ratings — published 1943
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.84 — 702,552 ratings — published 2007
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.18 — 352,599 ratings — published 1995
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,946,294 ratings — published 1963
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.61 — 473,603 ratings — published 1953
That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 47,797 ratings — published 1945
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 79,510 ratings — published 1884
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,256,837 ratings — published 1964
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 440,937 ratings — published 1967
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,876,809 ratings — published 1993
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.45 — 691,659 ratings — published 1952
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 126,598 ratings — published 2015
Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,639 ratings — published 2003
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.57 — 629,887 ratings — published 1851
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 303,461 ratings — published 1726
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 904,178 ratings — published 1922
White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 33,400 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's Dawn (Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,026 ratings — published 2001
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,522,948 ratings — published 1985
Red: The Heroic Rescue (The Circle, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 30,258 ratings — published 2004
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 957,090 ratings — published 1843
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
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“Kevin Williamson: I thought, "What is this really about?" It's this young girl who is dealing with death. I went, "Okay check that box." It's about how this dead man comes along and brings her back to life. I went "Okay, wouldn't that be lovely? That's certainly what I need right now." And so I used that metaphor and played against the allegory, and Julie and I sat down at a kitchen table and we wrote it and we just cried over it. We tried to find that part of it that was really about Elena trying to learn how to live again. And it worked. It really worked. And in a weird way, the whole show was my Stefan.”
― I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries
― I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries
