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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,225,313 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 523,139 ratings — published -800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.91 — 311,205 ratings — published 1605
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 146,373 ratings — published -19
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.09 — 176,494 ratings — published 1320
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,075,212 ratings — published 1601
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,044,469 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,923,065 ratings — published 1813
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.53 — 240,270 ratings — published 1400
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,033 ratings — published -400
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.86 — 185,878 ratings — published 1667
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.50 — 352,331 ratings — published 1000
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,958,500 ratings — published 1818
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.57 — 626,849 ratings — published 1851
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,122,817 ratings — published 1866
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,862,403 ratings — published 1590
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.73 — 241,292 ratings — published -429
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,742 ratings — published -1800
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.11 — 952,184 ratings — published 1878
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.17 — 372,827 ratings — published 1869
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,734 ratings — published 8
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,266 ratings — published -350
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,633,499 ratings — published 1948
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.39 — 402,685 ratings — published 1880
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,855 ratings — published -458
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,041,870 ratings — published 1623
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.59 — 302,558 ratings — published 1726
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,634 ratings — published -430
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.76 — 306,639 ratings — published 1759
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346,528 ratings — published 1885
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.04 — 183,450 ratings — published 1872
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,239,192 ratings — published 1847
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,375,458 ratings — published 1847
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.89 — 444,366 ratings — published 1603
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 886,309 ratings — published 1861
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,469,441 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,960,597 ratings — published 1951
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 76,599 ratings — published 400
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,947,580 ratings — published 1890
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.84 — 391,535 ratings — published 1532
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,181 ratings — published -411
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,513,723 ratings — published 1897
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,025,151 ratings — published 1859
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.87 — 965,242 ratings — published 1955
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,129,848 ratings — published 1967
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.03 — 210,164 ratings — published 1321
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.69 — 181,100 ratings — published -441
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,665 ratings — published -450
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,463 ratings — published 1580
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as western-canon)
avg rating 3.65 — 166,685 ratings — published 1916







