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The Feast by Margaret KennedyEx-Wife by Ursula ParrottWhite Out by Michael W. CluneThe Nenoquich by Henry BeanSomething to Do with Paying Attention by David Foster Wallace
McNally Editions
47 books — 6 voters
Elena Knows by Claudia PiñeiroA Little Luck by Claudia PiñeiroDie, My Love by Ariana HarwiczThe German Room by Carla MaliandiOf Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia
Charco Press
73 books — 26 voters

H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldWaterlog by Roger DeakinThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneThe Wild Places by Robert MacfarlaneFindings by Kathleen Jamie
British and Irish Nature Writing
251 books — 169 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonGarden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtTom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Gardens: Fact or Fiction set in a Garden Books
299 books — 153 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Children's Lit Before 1923
243 books — 111 voters
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Complete Tales by Beatrix PotterThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoTwas The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke MooreThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children's Lit before 1923 Part 2
171 books — 17 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 — 210 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Vintage Classics (Red Spine)
218 books — 78 voters

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan SillitoeSaturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan SillitoeLook Back in Anger by John OsborneA Kind of Loving by Stan BarstowA Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney
Britain's Angry Young Literature (50s & 60s)
28 books — 41 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Vampire Lestat by Anne RiceWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Horror Novels Written by Women
284 books — 66 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
639 books — 3,599 voters
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Modern Gothic
722 books — 1,375 voters


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