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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,298,636 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.94 — 541,759 ratings — published -750
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 316,865 ratings — published 1605
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,856 ratings — published -19
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.09 — 180,929 ratings — published 1304
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,041,824 ratings — published 1813
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,096,425 ratings — published 1601
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,175,817 ratings — published 1925
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,536 ratings — published 1400
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,028,197 ratings — published 1818
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,438 ratings — published 1667
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.51 — 358,879 ratings — published 950
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 234,621 ratings — published -400
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,171,805 ratings — published 1866
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,466 ratings — published 8
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.73 — 245,042 ratings — published -429
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 125,275 ratings — published -1800
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.11 — 974,228 ratings — published 1878
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,900,570 ratings — published 1590
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.58 — 638,576 ratings — published 1851
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 380,326 ratings — published 1868
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,982 ratings — published -350
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.59 — 306,233 ratings — published 1726
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,812,107 ratings — published 1949
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,944 ratings — published -458
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,061,301 ratings — published 1623
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 311,901 ratings — published 1759
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,551 ratings — published -430
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,312,910 ratings — published 1847
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.40 — 420,345 ratings — published 1879
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,548,919 ratings — published 1942
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,756 ratings — published -411
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.05 — 189,080 ratings — published 1872
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 80,290 ratings — published 400
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,429,811 ratings — published 1847
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.84 — 403,751 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 — 1,357,074 ratings — published 1885
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,038,001 ratings — published 1859
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 450,806 ratings — published 1603
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 898,858 ratings — published 1861
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,030,648 ratings — published 1951
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,565,315 ratings — published 1897
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,026,219 ratings — published 1890
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,845 ratings — published 1580
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 245,017 ratings — published 1605
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.69 — 185,530 ratings — published -441
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,576 ratings — published -450
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 984,835 ratings — published 1955
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,160,045 ratings — published 1967
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,417 ratings — published 1321
