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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 515 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,612,513 ratings — published 1945
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.08 — 160,674 ratings — published 1678
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,225,947 ratings — published 1954
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 164 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,170,517 ratings — published 1950
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,611,019 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,508,762 ratings — published 1943
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,761,334 ratings — published 2001
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 100 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.06 — 612,634 ratings — published 1955
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.35 — 60,923 ratings — published 1955
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 92 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 510,706 ratings — published 1952
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.32 — 186,101 ratings — published 1946
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.98 — 488,621 ratings — published 1951
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 86 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 395,461 ratings — published 1954
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
by (shelved 84 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.01 — 308,069 ratings — published 1956
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 75 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.96 — 333,376 ratings — published 1953
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 69 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 711,717 ratings — published 1956
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 507,731 ratings — published 1972
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.27 — 529,254 ratings — published 1942
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 274,407 ratings — published 1970
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,535,326 ratings — published 1948
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,454,885 ratings — published 1915
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 108,170 ratings — published 1938
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 82,010 ratings — published 1956
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 207,885 ratings — published 1321
The Pilgrim's Regress (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,859 ratings — published 1933
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.82 — 46,876 ratings — published 1908
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,326,673 ratings — published 1952
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 308,312 ratings — published 1961
Beatrice and Virgil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.18 — 21,962 ratings — published 2010
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 61,061 ratings — published 1943
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.84 — 696,468 ratings — published 2007
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.18 — 343,047 ratings — published 1995
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,873,058 ratings — published 1953
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.61 — 467,359 ratings — published 1953
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,242,478 ratings — published 1964
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 78,195 ratings — published 1884
That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,677 ratings — published 1945
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 123,579 ratings — published 2015
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 427,197 ratings — published 1967
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,830,218 ratings — published 1993
Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.18 — 37,251 ratings — published 2003
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.57 — 619,989 ratings — published 1851
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.44 — 652,382 ratings — published 1952
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 300,427 ratings — published 1726
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.08 — 885,677 ratings — published 1922
White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 33,187 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's Dawn (Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,951 ratings — published 2001
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 318,960 ratings — published 1947
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,456,967 ratings — published 1985
Red: The Heroic Rescue (The Circle, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 30,004 ratings — published 2004
“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
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
