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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,250,329 ratings — published -750
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 529,303 ratings — published -750
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 312,785 ratings — published 1605
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,476 ratings — published -19
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.09 — 177,988 ratings — published 1320
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,082,485 ratings — published 1601
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,092,856 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,965,067 ratings — published 1813
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,065 ratings — published 1400
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 187,066 ratings — published 1667
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.50 — 354,333 ratings — published 1000
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,979,819 ratings — published 1818
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,138,821 ratings — published 1866
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,420 ratings — published -400
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.73 — 242,463 ratings — published -429
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 630,875 ratings — published 1851
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,950 ratings — published -1800
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.11 — 959,456 ratings — published 1878
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,252 ratings — published 8
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,876,759 ratings — published 1590
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,298 ratings — published 1868
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,787 ratings — published -350
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,694,523 ratings — published 1949
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,165 ratings — published -458
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,048,421 ratings — published 1623
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.59 — 303,828 ratings — published 1726
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.40 — 408,498 ratings — published 1879
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,962 ratings — published -430
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 308,423 ratings — published 1759
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 185,489 ratings — published 1872
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.01 — 77,463 ratings — published 400
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,267,014 ratings — published 1847
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,394,199 ratings — published 1847
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.84 — 396,984 ratings — published 1513
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,494,701 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,985,085 ratings — published 1951
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,350,015 ratings — published 1885
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,029,498 ratings — published 1859
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 446,491 ratings — published 1603
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 890,508 ratings — published 1861
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,362 ratings — published -411
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,526,937 ratings — published 1897
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,973,476 ratings — published 1890
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 971,443 ratings — published 1955
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,628 ratings — published 1321
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.69 — 182,420 ratings — published -441
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,948 ratings — published -450
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,598 ratings — published 1580
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,138,824 ratings — published 1967
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 242,447 ratings — published 1605
