Important


1984
The Hate U Give
Animal Farm
The Handmaid's Tale
The Diary of a Young Girl
To Kill a Mockingbird
Between the World and Me
Fahrenheit 451
Man's Search for Meaning
Night
The Book Thief
Brave New World
We Should All Be Feminists
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Color Purple
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Powerful Books
134 books — 105 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Odyssey by HomerDracula by Bram StokerGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Most Influential Fantasy & Sci-fi
109 books — 6 voters
Creation by Adam RutherfordA Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam RutherfordThe Book of Humans by Adam RutherfordControl by Adam RutherfordThe Shortest History of Eugenics by Erik L. Peterson
Educational
35 books — 1 voter


Kazuo Ishiguro
In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognise such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, this was not the impression one had. Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an in ...more
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

Frances Hodgson Burnett
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important. ...more
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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