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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,194,056 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 510,175 ratings — published -800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 305,558 ratings — published 1615
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,594 ratings — published -19
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.09 — 172,620 ratings — published 1320
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,051,994 ratings — published 1601
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,923,435 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,809,367 ratings — published 1813
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 238,053 ratings — published 1400
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,234 ratings — published -400
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 182,788 ratings — published 1667
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.50 — 346,934 ratings — published 1000
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,892,526 ratings — published 1818
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 616,312 ratings — published 1851
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,824,502 ratings — published 1590
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.73 — 237,560 ratings — published -429
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,082,605 ratings — published 1866
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,188 ratings — published -2000
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 932,601 ratings — published 1878
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,384 ratings — published 8
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 366,162 ratings — published 1869
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,370 ratings — published -350
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,470,365 ratings — published 1949
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.39 — 387,108 ratings — published 1880
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,021,442 ratings — published 1623
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.59 — 299,078 ratings — published 1726
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,874 ratings — published -458
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,675 ratings — published -430
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,337,588 ratings — published 1885
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 179,353 ratings — published 1872
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 301,799 ratings — published 1759
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 74,265 ratings — published 400
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,325,886 ratings — published 1847
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 874,653 ratings — published 1861
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,897,239 ratings — published 1951
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,058,211 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,882,273 ratings — published 1890
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 437,033 ratings — published 1603
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,630 ratings — published -411
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,478,126 ratings — published 1897
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.84 — 383,161 ratings — published 1532
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,013,211 ratings — published 1859
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,106,102 ratings — published 1967
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 206,396 ratings — published 1321
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.68 — 176,959 ratings — published -441
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,815 ratings — published -450
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,111 ratings — published 1580
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 946,536 ratings — published 1955
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.64 — 164,220 ratings — published 1916
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 995,200 ratings — published 1939
