The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Wall Bangers!
745 books — 463 voters

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Best Historical Fiction
7,433 books — 25,610 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Odyssey by HomerThe Chosen by Chaim Potok
Required Reading in High School
813 books — 1,288 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah VowellWhy Should You Doubt Me Now? by Mary Breasted
Best Humorous Books
4,336 books — 7,941 voters
The Slave Girl by Buchi EmechetaThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeWest with the Night by Beryl Markham
Best books for an African Safari
476 books — 525 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Must Read Classics
1,862 books — 4,655 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryHeidi by Johanna Spyri
Favorite books from my childhood
4,420 books — 7,430 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,787 voters
A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethSwami and Friends by R.K. Narayan
Best South Asian Fiction
735 books — 1,895 voters

The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,837 books — 3,600 voters
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Have Passport Will Travel
710 books — 589 voters

A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethSacred Games by Vikram ChandraMaximum City by Suketu Mehta
India
1,018 books — 864 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Evil Inside
469 books — 190 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,434 books — 8,415 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBeloved by Toni MorrisonInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,139 voters

National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,849 books — 10,531 voters
1984 by George OrwellA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleNeuromancer by William GibsonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,436 books — 24,676 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,234 books — 8,064 voters
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,490 voters

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence DurrellThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib MahfouzA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceNiccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
Best Books Ever
76,444 books — 284,353 voters