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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,997 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,772 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 457,513 ratings — published 1972
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,865 ratings — published 1942
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,996 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,709 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 282,395 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,491 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,701 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,746 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,484 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,091 ratings — published 1927
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,976 ratings — published -335
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,929 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,746 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,809 ratings — published 1992
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,955 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.66 — 24,917 ratings — published 2023
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,788 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,738 ratings — published 1997
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,603 ratings — published 2003
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,758 ratings — published 1990
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,970 ratings — published 1934
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,730 ratings — published 1980
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,203 ratings — published 1979
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 618 ratings — published 1930
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,700 ratings — published 1985
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,888 ratings — published 2005
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,760 ratings — published 2019
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,371 ratings — published 2003
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,047 ratings — published 2016
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,817,104 ratings — published 1945
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 473 ratings — published 1931
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,041 ratings — published 1925
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,554 ratings — published 1991
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,969 ratings — published 1993
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,541 ratings — published 2021
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,175 ratings — published 1981
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,343 ratings — published 1949
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,101 ratings — published 1973
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,156,538 ratings — published 1932
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,768 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,885 ratings — published 2011
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,310 ratings — published 1961
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,225 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,931 ratings — published 1980
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,211 ratings — published 1988
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,490 ratings — published 1961
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,977 ratings — published 2019
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,788 ratings — published 2013
“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
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