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The Top 30 Books in Higher Education

The Top 30 Books in Higher Education

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
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
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
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
19 1,969 97.7
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
20 1,958 97.6
Kuhn, Thomas S.
21 1,918 97.5
Milton, John, 1608-1674
22 1,885 97.3
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
23 1,884 97.2
Huntington, Samuel P.
24 1,834 97.1
Achebe, Chinua
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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