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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,283,402 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 536,464 ratings — published -750
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,283 ratings — published 1605
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 148,785 ratings — published -19
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.09 — 179,500 ratings — published 1304
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,089,880 ratings — published 1601
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,138,760 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,006,023 ratings — published 1813
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,867 ratings — published 1400
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,216 ratings — published 1667
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,156,441 ratings — published 1866
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.50 — 356,587 ratings — published 950
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,000,510 ratings — published 1818
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 232,883 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,935 ratings — published 8
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.73 — 243,699 ratings — published -429
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,046 ratings — published -1800
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.11 — 967,335 ratings — published 1878
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,889,727 ratings — published 1590
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 634,932 ratings — published 1851
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 377,815 ratings — published 1868
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,310 ratings — published -350
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,758,664 ratings — published 1949
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,512 ratings — published -458
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,054,949 ratings — published 1623
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.59 — 305,107 ratings — published 1726
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,252 ratings — published -430
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 310,208 ratings — published 1759
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.40 — 414,375 ratings — published 1879
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,523,882 ratings — published 1942
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,560 ratings — published -411
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 187,387 ratings — published 1872
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.01 — 78,368 ratings — published 400
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.84 — 400,507 ratings — published 1513
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,353,540 ratings — published 1885
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,291,504 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,000,649 ratings — published 1890
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 448,639 ratings — published 1603
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,010,415 ratings — published 1951
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,412,619 ratings — published 1847
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,033,705 ratings — published 1859
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 894,725 ratings — published 1861
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,724 ratings — published 1580
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,540,432 ratings — published 1897
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 978,096 ratings — published 1955
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.69 — 183,840 ratings — published -441
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,265 ratings — published -450
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,150,653 ratings — published 1967
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 213,021 ratings — published 1321
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 243,850 ratings — published 1605
