Pompous Books to Read in Public

101.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,260 ratings
102.
A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #10-12)
A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #10-12) 4.23 avg rating — 1,555 ratings
103.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,189 ratings
104.
An Authentic Derivative: A Novel
An Authentic Derivative: A Novel
by: Caleb Coy
3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
104.
Anti-Ödipus
Anti-Ödipus 4.17 avg rating — 8,357 ratings
106.
Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
107.
Agenda 21 (Agenda 21, #1)
Agenda 21 (Agenda 21, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 7,835 ratings
108.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III 4.25 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
108.
On the Heights of Despair
On the Heights of Despair 4.16 avg rating — 8,974 ratings
110.
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems 3.74 avg rating — 3,997 ratings
110.
An Underground Education
An Underground Education 4.07 avg rating — 1,557 ratings
112.
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences 4.12 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
113.
The History of the Kings of Britain
The History of the Kings of Britain 3.72 avg rating — 6,790 ratings
114.
The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,680 ratings
115.
Lysistrata
Lysistrata 3.87 avg rating — 52,371 ratings
116.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
by: Aeschylus
4.02 avg rating — 45,633 ratings
117.
The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,040 ratings
118.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Life of Samuel Johnson 3.80 avg rating — 5,264 ratings
119.
The Dharma Bums
The Dharma Bums 3.93 avg rating — 99,789 ratings
120.
The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,864 ratings
121.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,645 ratings
122.
Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica 4.13 avg rating — 4,053 ratings
123.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe
by: Molière
3.66 avg rating — 42,282 ratings
124.
Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya 3.86 avg rating — 30,095 ratings
125.
Inferno
Inferno 4.03 avg rating — 200,505 ratings
126.
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch 3.46 avg rating — 96,898 ratings
127.
Faces in the Crowd
Faces in the Crowd 3.58 avg rating — 6,742 ratings
127.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller 4.02 avg rating — 108,217 ratings
129.
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason 4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings
130.
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Wittgenstein’s Mistress 3.92 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
131.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,032 ratings
132.
Specters of Marx
Specters of Marx 3.97 avg rating — 3,758 ratings
133.
Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,970 ratings
134.
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits 4.19 avg rating — 12,862 ratings
135.
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 4.33 avg rating — 33,405 ratings
136.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.84 avg rating — 10,884 ratings
137.
Textermination
Textermination 3.77 avg rating — 140 ratings
138.
On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating — 14,246 ratings
139.
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams 3.84 avg rating — 79,565 ratings
140.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating — 139,140 ratings
141.
A Naked Singularity
A Naked Singularity 4.13 avg rating — 2,937 ratings
141.
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
143.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,778 ratings
144.
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell 3.91 avg rating — 73,659 ratings
145.
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground 4.17 avg rating — 209,243 ratings
146.
The Judith Butler Reader
The Judith Butler Reader 3.96 avg rating — 136 ratings
147.
The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378) 4.07 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
147.
A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #7-9)
A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #7-9) 4.28 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
149.
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept 3.48 avg rating — 7,537 ratings
149.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 4.28 avg rating — 105,233 ratings
151.
Ecce Homo
Ecce Homo 3.81 avg rating — 19,207 ratings
152.
The Foucault Reader
The Foucault Reader 4.06 avg rating — 2,634 ratings
153.
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 4.20 avg rating — 22,702 ratings
154.
A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #4-6)
A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #4-6) 4.29 avg rating — 1,737 ratings
154.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene) 3.99 avg rating — 3,554 ratings
156.
The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana
The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana 3.38 avg rating — 12,600 ratings
156.
The Art of War
The Art of War 4.05 avg rating — 8,908 ratings
158.
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3)
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3) 3.93 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
159.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,231 ratings
160.
Europe Central
Europe Central 3.97 avg rating — 3,133 ratings
160.
Spilled Milk
Spilled Milk 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
160.
The White Album
The White Album 4.03 avg rating — 47,340 ratings
163.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating — 46,698 ratings
163.
The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born 4.09 avg rating — 10,438 ratings
163.
Bell Hammers
Bell Hammers 4.13 avg rating — 711 ratings
166.
Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,884 ratings
166.
Critique of Cynical Reason
Critique of Cynical Reason 4.22 avg rating — 637 ratings
166.
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing 3.48 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
166.
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
by: Livy
3.96 avg rating — 9,758 ratings
170.
The Making of Americans
The Making of Americans 3.55 avg rating — 583 ratings
170.
Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism (World of Tibetan Buddhism, Vol. 1)
Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism (World of Tibetan Buddhism, Vol. 1) 4.31 avg rating — 445 ratings
170.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation 3.61 avg rating — 524,686 ratings
173.
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker 3.61 avg rating — 7,317 ratings
173.
Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3)
Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3) 3.58 avg rating — 506 ratings
173.
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life 3.96 avg rating — 2,641 ratings
173.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,840 ratings
177.
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means 4.20 avg rating — 830 ratings
177.
The 5000 Year Leap
The 5000 Year Leap 4.27 avg rating — 7,133 ratings
177.
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life 3.88 avg rating — 6,971 ratings
177.
In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel
In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel 3.84 avg rating — 95 ratings
181.
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke 4.36 avg rating — 16,994 ratings
181.
The Art Lover
The Art Lover 4.14 avg rating — 664 ratings
183.
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond 3.94 avg rating — 309 ratings
183.
King Arthur
King Arthur 3.76 avg rating — 466 ratings
183.
Faust, First Part
Faust, First Part 3.83 avg rating — 84,125 ratings
183.
La Bâtarde
La Bâtarde 4.08 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
187.
The Secret Life of Puppets
The Secret Life of Puppets 4.26 avg rating — 205 ratings
188.
Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,260 ratings
188.
The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
The American Woman in the Chinese Hat 4.05 avg rating — 350 ratings
190.
Can the Subaltern Speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation
Can the Subaltern Speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation 3.95 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
190.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,741 ratings
192.
The Agricola and The Germania
The Agricola and The Germania
by: Tacitus
3.97 avg rating — 5,966 ratings
192.
Subscript
Subscript really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
192.
Jayber Crow
Jayber Crow 4.40 avg rating — 21,220 ratings
195.
Malina
Malina 4.04 avg rating — 5,022 ratings
196.
Amalgamemnon
Amalgamemnon 3.82 avg rating — 201 ratings
196.
The Symposium
The Symposium
by: Plato
4.09 avg rating — 85,855 ratings
198.
Plato: Complete Works
Plato: Complete Works
by: Plato
4.37 avg rating — 11,938 ratings
199.
Century 21
Century 21 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
199.
The Nicomachean Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics
by: Aristotle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,309 ratings
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