sipes23's "Famous books that nobody reads"

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These books are such a part of our cultural context (kafka-esque, orwellian, quixotic..) that everyone seems to know what they’re about without having read them. Or at least can quote a few lines ("out, dammed spot").

  1. 1.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
  2. 2.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  3. 3.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  4. 4.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  5. 5.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  6. 6.
    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors
  7. 7.
    The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
    by Charles Darwin
  8. 8.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More
  9. 9.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka
  10. 10.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  11. 11.
    Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  12. 12.
    Homer's Odyssey
    by Gwen Cooper
  13. 13.
    Animal Farm and 1984
    by George Orwell
  14. 14.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  15. 15.
    The Communist Manifesto
    by Friedrich Engels
  16. 16.
    Mein Kampf Official Nazi Translation
    by Adolf Hitler
  17. 17.
    ?
    Declaration of Independence

  18. 18.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
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Created by sipes23 on Dec 22, 2009.
 

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