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Mr Salary by Sally RooneyMary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia PlathThe Forester's Daughter by Claire KeeganCome Rain or Come Shine by Kazuo IshiguroCosmopolitan by Akhil Sharma
Faber Stories
31 books — 28 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottOne Hot Italian Summer by Karina HalleMisery by Stephen KingThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Fiction Books About Writers
294 books — 170 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,040 books — 3,045 voters
Mystery in White by J. Jefferson FarjeonThe Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel HayThe Poisoned Chocolates Case by Martin EdwardsMurder Underground by Mavis Doriel HayThe Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
British Library Crime Classics
144 books — 116 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,766 books — 1,646 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,085 books — 974 voters

How to Be a Victorian by Ruth GoodmanInside the Victorian Home by Judith FlandersThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonVictorian London by Liza PicardWhat Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
Nonfiction Books on the Victorian Era
404 books — 108 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Gothic Books of All Time
589 books — 3,505 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
463 books — 107 voters
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieChocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne FlukeThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
1,160 books — 2,473 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,989 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,549 books — 3,542 voters


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