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Allegory Books
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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,679,666 ratings — published 1945
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.08 — 162,255 ratings — published 1678
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,257,054 ratings — published 1954
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 164 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,190,801 ratings — published 1950
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,661,617 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,540,841 ratings — published 1943
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,770,559 ratings — published 2001
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 100 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.06 — 618,360 ratings — published 1955
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.35 — 61,388 ratings — published 1955
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 92 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 514,288 ratings — published 1952
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.32 — 189,175 ratings — published 1946
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,846 ratings — published 1951
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 86 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 399,125 ratings — published 1954
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
by (shelved 85 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.01 — 310,737 ratings — published 1956
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 75 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.95 — 336,314 ratings — published 1953
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 69 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 715,956 ratings — published 1956
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 510,297 ratings — published 1972
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.27 — 537,272 ratings — published 1942
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 276,254 ratings — published 1970
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,486,101 ratings — published 1915
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,614,782 ratings — published 1948
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 83,549 ratings — published 1956
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 109,581 ratings — published 1938
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 209,735 ratings — published 1321
The Pilgrim's Regress (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,932 ratings — published 1933
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.82 — 47,528 ratings — published 1908
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,343,009 ratings — published 1952
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.19 — 310,249 ratings — published 1961
Beatrice and Virgil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.18 — 22,039 ratings — published 2010
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 61,880 ratings — published 1943
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.84 — 699,742 ratings — published 2007
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.18 — 348,389 ratings — published 1995
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,914,118 ratings — published 1953
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.61 — 470,911 ratings — published 1953
That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 47,319 ratings — published 1945
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 78,905 ratings — published 1884
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,250,456 ratings — published 1964
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,855,150 ratings — published 1993
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 125,262 ratings — published 2015
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 434,944 ratings — published 1967
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.45 — 671,209 ratings — published 1952
Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,462 ratings — published 2003
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.57 — 625,504 ratings — published 1851
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 302,140 ratings — published 1726
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 895,814 ratings — published 1922
White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 33,308 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's Dawn (Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,991 ratings — published 2001
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 323,485 ratings — published 1947
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,493,164 ratings — published 1985
Red: The Heroic Rescue (The Circle, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 30,136 ratings — published 2004
“The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being that it should have no taint of allegory to the maker and yet should suggest incipient allegories to the reader.
[C.S. Lewis writes to J.R.R. Tolkien on December 7, 1929]”
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[C.S. Lewis writes to J.R.R. Tolkien on December 7, 1929]”
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“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― The Road
― The Road
