How many of these popular texts have you read? The top 30 texts in Higher Education ranked by the Open Syllabus Project are as follows (click a title to view on Amazon):
| Rank | Count | Score | Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,934 | 100.0 |
Strunk, William, 1869-1946
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| 2 | 3,573 | 99.9 |
Plato
|
| 3 | 3,189 | 99.7 |
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
|
| 4 | 3,057 | 99.6 |
Campbell, Neil A., 1946
|
| 5 | 2,710 | 99.5 |
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
|
| 6 | 2,709 | 99.4 |
Aristotle
|
| 7 | 2,671 | 99.2 |
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
|
| 8 | 2,652 | 99.1 |
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
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| 9 | 2,572 | 99.0 |
Sophocles
|
| 10 | 2,395 | 98.9 |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
|
| 11 | 2,364 | 98.7 |
Homer
|
| 12 | 2,302 | 98.6 |
Said, Edward W.
|
| 13 | 2,239 | 98.5 |
Turabian, Kate L.
|
| 14 | 2,180 | 98.3 |
Homer
|
| 15 | 2,147 | 98.2 |
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
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| 16 | 2,023 | 98.1 |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
|
| 17 | 2,021 | 98.0 |
Sophocles
|
| 18 | 1,985 | 97.8 |
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
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| 19 | 1,969 | 97.7 |
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
|
| 20 | 1,958 | 97.6 |
Kuhn, Thomas S.
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| 21 | 1,918 | 97.5 |
Milton, John, 1608-1674
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| 22 | 1,885 | 97.3 |
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
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| 23 | 1,884 | 97.2 |
Huntington, Samuel P.
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| 24 | 1,834 | 97.1 |
Achebe, Chinua
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| 25 | 1,834 | 97.1 |
Plato
|
| 26 | 1,774 | 96.9 |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
|
| 27 | 1,701 | 96.8 |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
|
| 28 | 1,694 | 96.7 |
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
|
| 29 | 1,683 | 96.6 |
Aristotle
|
| 30 | 1,673 | 96.4 |
Turabian, Kate L.
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