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The 1,138,841 most frequently-assigned texts (everything with 5+ appearances)
#1
The Elements of Style
William Strunk
Assigned on 15,533 syllabi
#2
A Writer's Reference
Diana Hacker
Assigned on 14,931 syllabi
#3
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
Kate L. Turabian
Assigned on 13,426 syllabi
#4
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Assigned on 11,234 syllabi
#5
The Republic
Plato
Assigned on 9,883 syllabi
#6
Calculus
James Stewart
Assigned on 9,682 syllabi
#7
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Assigned on 9,320 syllabi
#8
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Assigned on 9,172 syllabi
#9
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Assigned on 9,104 syllabi
#10
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Elaine Nicpon Marieb
Assigned on 8,507 syllabi
#11
Doing Your Research Project
Judith Bell
Assigned on 8,234 syllabi
#12
Imagined Communities
Benedict R. O.'G. Anderson
Assigned on 8,082 syllabi
#13
They Say/I Say
Gerald Graff
Assigned on 8,007 syllabi
#14
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Assigned on 7,974 syllabi
#15
A Pocket Style Manual
Diana Hacker
Assigned on 7,706 syllabi
#16
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault
Assigned on 7,583 syllabi
#17
The Study Skills Handbook
Stella Cottrell
Assigned on 7,541 syllabi
#18
Orientalism
Edward W. Said
Assigned on 7,369 syllabi
#19
Social Research Methods
Alan Bryman
Assigned on 7,351 syllabi
#20
Research Design
John W. Creswell
Assigned on 7,143 syllabi
#21
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Assigned on 7,057 syllabi
#22
Marketing Management
Philip Kotler
Assigned on 7,003 syllabi
#23
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Bruce Alberts
Assigned on 6,981 syllabi
#24
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Assigned on 6,877 syllabi
#25
Communication Skills Handbook
Jane Summers
Assigned on 6,793 syllabi
#26
Advanced Engineering Mathematics
Erwin Kreyszig
Assigned on 6,780 syllabi
#27
Letter From the Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King
Assigned on 6,780 syllabi
#28
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
Assigned on 6,627 syllabi
#29
Meditations on First Philosophy
Rene Descartes
Assigned on 6,285 syllabi
#30
Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen
Assigned on 6,281 syllabi
#31
The Clash of Civilizations?
Samuel P. Huntington
Assigned on 6,273 syllabi
#32
Second Treatise of Government
John Locke
Assigned on 6,141 syllabi
#33
Oedipus the King
Sophocles
Assigned on 5,963 syllabi
#34
The Craft of Research
Wayne C. Booth
Assigned on 5,917 syllabi
#35
Intermediate Algebra
K. Elayn Martin-Gay
Assigned on 5,863 syllabi
#36
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Assigned on 5,818 syllabi
#37
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
Assigned on 5,801 syllabi
#38
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Joseph Gibaldi
Assigned on 5,791 syllabi
#39
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
Assigned on 5,790 syllabi
#40
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Assigned on 5,784 syllabi
#41
Biology
Neil A. Campbell
Assigned on 5,766 syllabi
#42
The Art of Public Speaking
Stephen Lucas
Assigned on 5,567 syllabi
#43
Poetics
Aristotle
Assigned on 5,563 syllabi
#44
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Assigned on 5,546 syllabi
#45
The Odyssey
Homer
Assigned on 5,391 syllabi
#46
Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
Gerard J. Tortora
Assigned on 5,375 syllabi
#47
Handbook of Qualitative Research
Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln
Assigned on 5,273 syllabi
#48
The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault
Assigned on 5,268 syllabi
#49
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
Assigned on 5,228 syllabi
#50
Computer Networks
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Assigned on 5,197 syllabi
#51
Critical Thinking Skills
Stella Cottrell
Assigned on 5,156 syllabi
#52
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
Assigned on 5,090 syllabi
#53
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Assigned on 5,061 syllabi
#54
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Assigned on 5,048 syllabi
#55
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler
Assigned on 5,042 syllabi
#56
Research Methods for Business Students
Mark Saunders
Assigned on 4,988 syllabi
#57
Case Study Research
Robert K. Yin
Assigned on 4,954 syllabi
#58
The C Programming Language
Brian W. Kernighan
Assigned on 4,946 syllabi
#59
Fundamentals of Database Systems
Ramez Elmasri
Assigned on 4,926 syllabi
#60
The Aeneid
Virgil
Assigned on 4,890 syllabi
#61
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Assigned on 4,866 syllabi
#62
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Clarence Wilbur Taber
Assigned on 4,857 syllabi
#63
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
Assigned on 4,855 syllabi
#64
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Assigned on 4,842 syllabi
#65
America
George Brown Tindall
Assigned on 4,835 syllabi
#66
Principles of Marketing
Philip Kotler
Assigned on 4,833 syllabi
#67
Operations Research
Hamdy A. Taha
Assigned on 4,801 syllabi
#68
Democracy in America
Alexis De Tocqueville
Assigned on 4,783 syllabi
#69
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
Assigned on 4,779 syllabi
#70
Operating System Concepts
Abraham Silberschatz
Assigned on 4,700 syllabi
#71
Prufrock and Other Observations
T. S. Eliot
Assigned on 4,662 syllabi
#72
Antigone
Sophocles
Assigned on 4,628 syllabi
#73
Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology
Frederic Martini
Assigned on 4,619 syllabi
#74
Software Engineering
Roger S. Pressman
Assigned on 4,601 syllabi
#75
Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher
Assigned on 4,586 syllabi
#76
Computer Networking
James F. Kurose
Assigned on 4,581 syllabi
#77
International Economics
Paul R. Krugman
Assigned on 4,572 syllabi
#78
Artificial Intelligence
Stuart J. Russell
Assigned on 4,562 syllabi
#79
Biochemistry
Lubert Stryer
Assigned on 4,548 syllabi
#80
The Good Research Guide
Martyn Denscombe
Assigned on 4,545 syllabi
#81
Real World Research
Colin Robson
Assigned on 4,519 syllabi
#82
The Tragedy of the Commons
Garrett Hardin
Assigned on 4,482 syllabi
#83
Organizational Behavior
Stephen P. Robbins
Assigned on 4,454 syllabi
#84
Research Methodology
C. R. Kothari
Assigned on 4,427 syllabi
#85
Medical-Surgical Nursing
Sharon Mantik Lewis
Assigned on 4,414 syllabi
#86
Software Engineering
Ian Sommerville
Assigned on 4,410 syllabi
#87
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital
Robert D. Putnam
Assigned on 4,398 syllabi
#88
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Assigned on 4,384 syllabi
#89
Leadership
Peter Guy Northouse
Assigned on 4,331 syllabi
#90
Give Me Liberty!
Eric Foner
Assigned on 4,319 syllabi
#91
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Assigned on 4,311 syllabi
#92
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin
Assigned on 4,285 syllabi
#93
Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Manual
Elaine Nicpon Marieb
Assigned on 4,264 syllabi
#94
Management and Organisational Behaviour
Laurie J. Mullins
Assigned on 4,256 syllabi
#95
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
Assigned on 4,184 syllabi
#96
Reflective Practice
Gillie Bolton
Assigned on 4,179 syllabi
#97
Introductory Econometrics
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Assigned on 4,167 syllabi
#98
Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard A. Brealey
Assigned on 4,128 syllabi
#99
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
Assigned on 4,077 syllabi
#100
Confessions
Augustine
Assigned on 4,077 syllabi
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