A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir NabokovHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Opening Sentence
220 books — 151 voters

Papap's Teeth by Danielle DeVorThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte PerkinsThe Gift of the Magi by O. HenryHills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Just A Few Pages Long
109 books — 94 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinCancer Ward by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAirport by Arthur Hailey
Best Books 1968
149 books — 58 voters

Joy & Sorrow by Peter Sean DalyShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareComplete Poems by Edgar Allan PoeLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanComplete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time
277 books — 296 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,710 books — 1,278 voters

Antigone by SophoclesOedipus Rex by SophoclesThe Oresteia by AeschylusMedea by EuripidesThe Bacchae by Euripides
Ancient Greek Drama
146 books — 54 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBreaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books that DIVIDE people
179 books — 44 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 145 voters
Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoethePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTales From Shakespeare by Charles LambThe Age of Reason by Thomas PaineElective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best Books of the Decade: 1800s.
103 books — 94 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakDivergent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Your Top 5 Reads in 2013
1,297 books — 1,092 voters


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