To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,331 books — 5,862 voters
1984 by George Orwell1776 by David McCullough2001 by Arthur C. Clarke1491 by Charles C. Mann2010 by Arthur C. Clarke
Books with a Year for a Title
212 books — 61 voters

John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,167 books — 2,521 voters

Playing Ball by Vernon DavisThe Last Folk Hero by Jeff PearlmanThrough My Eyes by Tim TebowThe League by John EisenbergAmerica's Game by Jerry Rice
Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
1,331 books — 990 voters
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred WatsonMiss Buncle's Book by D.E. StevensonSomeone at a Distance by Dorothy WhippleThe Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II by Frances Hodgson BurnettMariana by Monica Dickens
Best Persephone Books
151 books — 167 voters

A Room of One's Own by Virginia WoolfThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxWhy I Write by George OrwellBooks v. Cigarettes by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Penguin Great Ideas
121 books — 100 voters
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyWhite Nights by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 207 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Popular Penguins
200 books — 102 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Feminist Fiction
1,502 books — 2,672 voters

Chess by Stefan ZweigIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaThe Machine Stops by E.M. ForsterBabylon Revisited by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
Penguin Mini Modern Classics
50 books — 55 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Penguin Classics
595 books — 309 voters


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