Best books for humanities degree

1.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,806 ratings
2.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,235 ratings
3.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,689,970 ratings
4.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Three volumes)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Three volumes) 4.48 avg rating — 57,543 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,866 ratings
6.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,641 ratings
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The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,729 ratings
8.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,227,526 ratings
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Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,058 ratings
10.
The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,685 ratings
11.
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind 4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
12.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,033 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,128 ratings
14.
The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,681 ratings
15.
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
16.
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1) 4.70 avg rating — 115 ratings
17.
Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3)
Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3) 4.71 avg rating — 55 ratings
18.
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
19.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,732,361 ratings
20.
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1) 4.70 avg rating — 115 ratings
21.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,199 ratings
22.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,288 ratings
23.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,634,229 ratings
24.
The Unwords
The Unwords
by: Non Nomen
3.66 avg rating — 268 ratings
25.
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays 4.22 avg rating — 63,616 ratings
26.
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents 3.79 avg rating — 43,516 ratings
27.
Of Human Bondage (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Of Human Bondage (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) 4.15 avg rating — 60,346 ratings
28.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,025 ratings
29.
The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,252 ratings
30.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,241 ratings
31.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating — 139,153 ratings
32.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,397 ratings
33.
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf 3.17 avg rating — 43,178 ratings
34.
The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by: Plato
4.12 avg rating — 44,778 ratings
35.
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Hero With a Thousand Faces 4.13 avg rating — 44,169 ratings
36.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,224 ratings
37.
American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 86,090 ratings
38.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,020 ratings
39.
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita 4.19 avg rating — 78,230 ratings
39.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,748 ratings
41.
The Symposium
The Symposium
by: Plato
4.09 avg rating — 85,865 ratings
42.
1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,368 ratings
43.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems 4.32 avg rating — 22,469 ratings
44.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,107 ratings
45.
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie 3.74 avg rating — 141,063 ratings
46.
Ten Plays
Ten Plays
by: Euripides
4.14 avg rating — 2,315 ratings
47.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra 4.07 avg rating — 169,554 ratings
48.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,059 ratings
49.
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age 3.83 avg rating — 12,693 ratings
50.
The Theban Plays (Everyman's Library, #93)
The Theban Plays (Everyman's Library, #93)
by: Sophocles
3.99 avg rating — 69,742 ratings
50.
The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,560 ratings
52.
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses 4.14 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
53.
Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,326 ratings
54.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,287 ratings
55.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe
by: Molière
3.66 avg rating — 42,287 ratings
56.
MindHub: Personality Profiler
MindHub: Personality Profiler 4.34 avg rating — 74 ratings
57.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,964 ratings
58.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet 3.74 avg rating — 2,767,987 ratings
59.
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't 3.90 avg rating — 2,417 ratings
60.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,523 ratings
61.
Civilisation
Civilisation 4.25 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
62.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,142 ratings
63.
Mornings on Horseback
Mornings on Horseback 4.10 avg rating — 34,708 ratings
64.
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy 3.77 avg rating — 35,924 ratings
65.
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages 3.88 avg rating — 925 ratings
65.
The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,637 ratings
65.
The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West 4.06 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
68.
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II 3.75 avg rating — 518 ratings
68.
The Essential Writings
The Essential Writings
by: Epictetus
4.22 avg rating — 218 ratings
70.
Mythologies
Mythologies 4.08 avg rating — 16,795 ratings
71.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,178 ratings
72.
The Weaker Vessel
The Weaker Vessel 3.92 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
72.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,995 ratings
74.
What Is the What
What Is the What 4.15 avg rating — 86,455 ratings
75.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,290 ratings
76.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
by: Aeschylus
4.02 avg rating — 45,637 ratings
77.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,214 ratings
78.
Plano Americano
Plano Americano 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
79.
The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude
The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude 4.25 avg rating — 304 ratings
79.
Beyond the Culture of Contest
Beyond the Culture of Contest 4.69 avg rating — 36 ratings
81.
Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
81.
Being and Time
Being and Time 4.05 avg rating — 27,069 ratings
81.
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 4.13 avg rating — 7,494 ratings
84.
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
The Old Regime and the French Revolution 4.05 avg rating — 2,523 ratings
85.
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism 4.26 avg rating — 9,469 ratings
86.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread 3.59 avg rating — 17,393 ratings
87.
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement 4.44 avg rating — 33,950 ratings
88.
Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation
Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation 3.65 avg rating — 69 ratings
89.
Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating — 268,452 ratings
90.
Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde 3.75 avg rating — 7,063 ratings
91.
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media 4.08 avg rating — 23,857 ratings
92.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,471 ratings
93.
Barchester Towers and The Warden
Barchester Towers and The Warden 4.17 avg rating — 90 ratings
94.
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire 3.72 avg rating — 575 ratings
95.
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,358 ratings
96.
Theaetetus
Theaetetus
by: Plato
4.11 avg rating — 6,384 ratings
97.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,830 ratings
98.
The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,615 ratings
99.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,304 ratings
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We Have Never Been Modern
We Have Never Been Modern 3.91 avg rating — 2,578 ratings
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