Prose


The Great Gatsby
1984
The Stranger
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Crime and Punishment
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lolita
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Metamorphosis
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Fahrenheit 451
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Exotic Neurotic by Kenneth Jarrett SingletonAn Old Man by Eric M. BlackBetween The Lines by Céline ZabadAnxiety by Danny WinterLullaby of Love by Rebecca Winning
Best Poetry Collections
39 books — 38 voters
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille CliftonThe Hungry Ear by Kevin YoungThe VITAL SYSTEM by C.M. BurroughsThe Grey Album by Kevin YoungShoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia      Smith
2012 Poetry by African-Americans
9 books — 2 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Stranger by Albert Camus
World's Greatest Novellas
721 books — 1,452 voters
The Foxhunter by Dr Andrew J RynneThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Works of Pure Genius
737 books — 690 voters

Susan Sontag
Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.
Susan Sontag, In America

Emily Dickinson
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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