Literature

Literature is the art of written works. The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non-fiction, although "literature" in popular use can also mean a sub-genre of fiction called literary fiction. ...more

A Violent Masterpiece
Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
Liar's Dice
Underlake
The Left and the Lucky
Tailbone
The Palm House
Everything That Is Beautiful
Son of Nobody
The Adjunct
Python's Kiss
Paradiso 17
The Body Builders
Galahad and the Grail (Merlin's Isle, #1)
Romaanihenkilön elämä
Demon Copperhead
Flesh
Klara and the Sun
Transcription
The Rest of Our Lives
The Emperor of Gladness
La muy catastrófica visita al zoo
Trust
Un animal salvaje
On the Calculation of Volume IV
Lázár
Slags
The Homemade God
‎22 Bahnen (Tilda und Ida, #1)
The Ten Year Affair
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe House at Riverton by Kate MortonBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughHowards End by E.M. ForsterA Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Downton Abbey-esque Books
614 books — 1,015 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsViciously Yours by Jamie Applegate HunterCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsBeing a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara PascoeMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Favourite young adult books
1,740 books — 1,688 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,676 books — 5,795 voters
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireThe Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenHopeless by Colleen HooverDivergent by Veronica RothFallen Too Far by Abbi Glines
What we've read so far in 2013...
8,123 books — 2,754 voters

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeThe Quincunx by Charles PalliserThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonPower And Prediction by Ajay Agrawal
Best Unappreciated Books
4,383 books — 2,239 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
535 books — 1,889 voters

The Great Gatsby
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Pride and Prejudice
The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Of Mice and Men
Lord of the Flies
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Eyre
The Stranger
Brave New World
Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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