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Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as university)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,024,939 ratings — published 1818
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as university)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,095,921 ratings — published 1601
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as university)
avg rating 3.77 — 378,725 ratings — published 1925
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as university)
avg rating 3.43 — 578,309 ratings — published 1899
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as university)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,428,311 ratings — published 1847
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as university)
avg rating 3.78 — 235,760 ratings — published 1611
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as university)
avg rating 3.89 — 450,635 ratings — published 1603
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as university)
avg rating 3.94 — 596,075 ratings — published 1595
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as university)
avg rating 3.51 — 358,722 ratings — published 950
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as university)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,311,158 ratings — published 1847
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as university)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,297,589 ratings — published -800
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as university)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,804 ratings — published 1952
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as university)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,172,584 ratings — published 1925
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as university)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,060,872 ratings — published 1623
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as university)
avg rating 3.77 — 82,354 ratings — published 1375
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as university)
avg rating 3.96 — 199,094 ratings — published 1623
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as university)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,038,710 ratings — published 1813
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as university)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,562,291 ratings — published 1897
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as university)
avg rating 3.80 — 898,544 ratings — published 1861
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as university)
avg rating 3.91 — 244,923 ratings — published 1605
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as university)
avg rating 3.81 — 227,954 ratings — published 1927
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as university)
avg rating 3.68 — 340,390 ratings — published 1719
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as university)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,337 ratings — published 1667
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as university)
avg rating 4.06 — 391,733 ratings — published 1892
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as university)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,459 ratings — published 1588
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as university)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,899,828 ratings — published 1590
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as university)
avg rating 3.73 — 244,903 ratings — published -429
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as university)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,023,988 ratings — published 1890
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as university)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,411 ratings — published 1987
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as university)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,274 ratings — published 1966
Oroonoko (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as university)
avg rating 3.01 — 17,635 ratings — published 1688
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as university)
avg rating 3.83 — 705,905 ratings — published 1886
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as university)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,578,637 ratings — published 1915
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as university)
avg rating 3.44 — 945,224 ratings — published 1850
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as university)
avg rating 3.85 — 474,680 ratings — published 1817
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as university)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,484 ratings — published 1958
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as university)
avg rating 3.59 — 306,154 ratings — published 1726
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as university)
avg rating 4.22 — 285,205 ratings — published 1929
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as university)
avg rating 4.17 — 417,423 ratings — published 1895
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 90 times as university)
avg rating 3.69 — 185,358 ratings — published -441
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as university)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,313 ratings — published 1596
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as university)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,484 ratings — published 1400
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as university)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,580,164 ratings — published 1985
The Deal (Off-Campus, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as university)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,475,438 ratings — published 2015
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as university)
avg rating 3.83 — 187,200 ratings — published 1914
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as university)
avg rating 3.94 — 541,336 ratings — published -750
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 84 times as university)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,356,823 ratings — published 1885
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as university)
avg rating 4.15 — 814,826 ratings — published 1817
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as university)
avg rating 3.55 — 86,312 ratings — published 1516
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as university)
avg rating 3.38 — 190,262 ratings — published 1898
“Academic criticism often focuses on pleasing the examiners for various purposes. It lacks the aesthetic design, the nobility of purpose and the freedom to touch emotional and humane aspects of the literary work that appeal to the senses rather than the intellectual faculty.”
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