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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,732 ratings — published 1983
The Know-It-All (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,894 ratings — published 2004
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,686 ratings — published 1918
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,988 ratings — published 1992
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,668 ratings — published 1867
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,179 ratings — published
Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.09 — 35 ratings — published 2017
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,588 ratings — published 2021
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.24 — 43,525 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,252 ratings — published 2020
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,683,354 ratings — published 1945
The Limits of Critique (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.97 — 373 ratings — published 2015
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.09 — 270,313 ratings — published 1980
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,384 ratings — published 1951
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,077,419 ratings — published 1992
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.95 — 571,295 ratings — published 2001
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.15 — 720 ratings — published 2002
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,912,806 ratings — published 1813
Teaching Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.78 — 238 ratings — published 2002
Who Wrote the Bible? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,481 ratings — published 1987
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,454 ratings — published 2006
We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.93 — 67 ratings — published 2009
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,166 ratings — published 1979
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.12 — 782 ratings — published 2008
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,258 ratings — published 2002
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,773 ratings — published 1949
The Varieties of Religious Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.99 — 13,240 ratings — published 1902
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,258,890 ratings — published 1954
The Axeman's Carnival (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,927 ratings — published 2022
The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.14 — 161 ratings — published 2000
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.15 — 794,579 ratings — published 1817
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,036,110 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,598 ratings — published 1978
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.97 — 187 ratings — published 1988
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,445 ratings — published 2011
The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,359 ratings — published 2004
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,924 ratings — published 1958
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.78 — 231,066 ratings — published 1611
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.32 — 398 ratings — published 1982
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,850 ratings — published 1971
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,072 ratings — published 2007
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,735 ratings — published 2021
Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.25 — 40 ratings — published 2019
Polygamy: An Early American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.84 — 38 ratings — published 2019
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,697 ratings — published 2007
RELIGION OF A DIFFERENT COLOR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.46 — 254 ratings — published 2014
The Scholarship System: 6 Simple Steps on How to Win Scholarships and Financial Aid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.84 — 76 ratings — published 2014
Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.74 — 69 ratings — published 1986
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,280 ratings — published
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.89 — 278 ratings — published 2023
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