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Cover of The Tao of Pooh

The Tao of Pooh

Benjamin Hoff, Ernest H. Shepard

4.0

1982

Cover of Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

David Bayles, Ted Orland

3.7

1993

Cover of Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

David Foster Wallace

4.3

2005

Cover of How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

Thomas C. Foster

3.6

2003

Cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.9

1925

Cover of Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell

3.9

1945

Cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

3.8

1884

Cover of Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen, Tony Tanner, Ros Ballaster

4.1

1811

Cover of Hamlet

Hamlet

William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews, Rex Gibson

4.0

1600

Cover of Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

3.8

1860

Cover of The Stranger

The Stranger

Albert Camus, Matthew Ward

4.0

1942

Cover of A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

4.0

1843

Cover of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

4.0

2012

Cover of On the Road

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

3.6

1955

Cover of The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff

3.9

1943

Cover of The Iliad

The Iliad

Homer, Robert Fagles, Frédéric Mugler, Bernard Knox

3.8

-750

Cover of The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

3.8

1903

Cover of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris

4.1

2004

Cover of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

4.0

1997

Cover of War and Peace

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy, Henry Gifford, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude

4.1

1869

Cover of The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

4.3

1880

Cover of Ways of Seeing

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

3.8

1972

Cover of David Copperfield

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens, Jeremy Tambling

4.0

1849

Cover of The Prophet

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

4.2

1923

Cover of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

4.2

1994

Cover of Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

3.5

1949

Cover of 1Q84

1Q84

Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel

3.9

2009

Cover of The Tempest

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

3.8

1623

Cover of The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

3.9

1929

Cover of Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare, Roma Gill

3.6

1599

Cover of Animal Farm / 1984

Animal Farm / 1984

George Orwell, Christopher Hitchens

4.3

1950

Cover of The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins

The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins

John D. Rateliff, J.R.R. Tolkien

3.8

2007

Cover of The Art Book

The Art Book

Phaidon Press

3.8

1997

Cover of The Girl with All the Gifts

The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey

3.9

2014

Cover of Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.8

1952

Cover of Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

John Milton, John Leonard

3.8

1667

Cover of Twilight Director's Notebook : The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer

Twilight Director's Notebook : The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer

Catherine Hardwicke

4.2

2009

Cover of Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables

Aesop, Laura Harris, Laura Gibbs

4.0

-560

Cover of To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.8

1927

Cover of Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.8

1933

Cover of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott McCloud

4.0

1993

Cover of Ulysses

Ulysses

James Joyce

3.7

1922

Cover of The Girls

The Girls

Emma Cline

3.5

2016

Cover of Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

4.0

1981

Cover of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

3.8

1998

Cover of Horns

Horns

Joe Hill

3.9

2009

Cover of The Call of the Wild/White Fang

The Call of the Wild/White Fang

Jack London

4.1

1906

Cover of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson

4.2

1890

Cover of A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

4.1

1929

Cover of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.2

1592

Cover of The Prayer of Jabez:  Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

Bruce H. Wilkinson

3.9

2000

Cover of The Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth

Jane Hamilton

3.8

1988

Cover of Possession

Possession

A.S. Byatt

3.9

1990

Cover of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

A.J. Jacobs

3.8

2007

Cover of Harry Potter: Film Wizardry

Harry Potter: Film Wizardry

Brian Sibley

4.5

2010

Cover of Cat's Eye

Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood

3.9

1988

Cover of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino, William Weaver

4.1

1979

Cover of Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev, George Reavy, Jane Costlow

3.9

1862

Cover of We

We

Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown

4.0

1924

Cover of Possible Side Effects

Possible Side Effects

Augusten Burroughs

4.0

2006

Cover of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gustave Doré

3.9

1798

Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

3.6

1774

Cover of Hard Times

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

3.5

1854

Cover of History of Beauty

History of Beauty

Umberto Eco, Girolamo De Michele, Alastair McEwen

3.8

2004

Cover of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

C.S. Lewis

4.1

1955

Cover of The Red and the Black

The Red and the Black

Stendhal, Roger Gard

3.9

1830

Cover of Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen

4.1

1833

Cover of The Future of Us

The Future of Us

Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler

3.6

2011

Cover of Orlando

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

3.9

1928

Cover of The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus

The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus

Bev Vincent

4.3

2004

Cover of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

4.3

1924

Cover of Master and Commander

Master and Commander

Patrick O'Brian

4.1

1969

Cover of Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

4.0

1936

Cover of The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien

4.2

1942

Cover of A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Charles Dickens, Michael Slater

4.1

1843

Cover of Ficciones

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan, Anthony Bonner

4.5

1944

Cover of The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats, Richard J. Finneran

4.3

1997

Cover of Creepshow

Creepshow

Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson, Michele Wrightson

4.1

1982

Cover of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Nate Silver

4.0

2012

Cover of Enduring Love

Enduring Love

Ian McEwan

3.6

1997

Cover of The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

3.7

2004

Cover of Lincoln

Lincoln

David Herbert Donald

4.2

1995

Cover of Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

Thomas Malory, Keith Baines, Robert Graves

3.9

1485

Cover of The Ladies' Room

The Ladies' Room

Carolyn Brown

3.9

2011

Cover of The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction

The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction

Stephen Crane, George Stade, Richard Fusco

3.6

1895

Cover of The Castle

The Castle

Franz Kafka, Mark Harman, Regaip Minareci, Şerif Yeşilbucak

4.0

1926

Cover of Hamilton: The Revolution

Hamilton: The Revolution

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

4.5

2016

Cover of The Cost of Discipleship

The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.3

1937

Cover of 100 Selected Poems

100 Selected Poems

E.E. Cummings

4.3

1954

Cover of Politics

Politics

Aristotle

3.9

-350

Cover of Love Is a Mix Tape

Love Is a Mix Tape

Rob Sheffield

3.8

2007

Cover of Big Sur

Big Sur

Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan

3.9

1962

Cover of History of the Peloponnesian War

History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides, Rex Warner, Moses I. Finley

3.9

-411

Cover of The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann, John E. Woods

4.1

1924

Cover of Perfect You

Perfect You

Elizabeth Scott

3.7

2008

Cover of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

4.2

1996

Cover of Lexicon

Lexicon

Max Barry

3.9

2013

Cover of The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois, Donald B. Gibson, Monica W. Elbert

4.2

1903

Cover of 14

14

Peter Clines

3.9

2012

Cover of The Lost Painting

The Lost Painting

Jonathan Harr

3.7

2005

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