The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
100 Worst Young Adult Fiction
9 books — 16 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1001 Books I Have Already Read
523 books — 459 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
106 books — 1,247 voters
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultSuper Sad True Love Story by Gary ShteyngartThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesHow to Be Good by Nick HornbyDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Bad Endings
167 books — 192 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Great Books of Southern Fiction
385 books — 444 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,753 books — 6,908 voters

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeA Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel JohnsonKabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareParadise Lost by John MiltonOthello by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
333 books — 708 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareUtopia by Thomas MoreMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
190 books — 545 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerInferno by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 354 voters

The Prose Edda by Snorri SturlusonThe Nibelungenlied by UnknownEgil's Saga by AnonymousParzival by Wolfram von EschenbachNjal's Saga by Anonymous
Best Books of the 13th Century
72 books — 186 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph HellerBrave New World by Aldous Huxley1984 by George OrwellHamlet by William Shakespeare
Corruption in High Places
451 books — 350 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Unique Narrators
402 books — 349 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
826 books — 1,151 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyTender Is the Night by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
913 books — 1,261 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceDubliners by James JoyceThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. EliotJenny by Sigrid Undset
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
537 books — 779 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William GoldingInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonCat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,201 books — 1,517 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleShip of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,441 books — 1,776 voters
Fifth Business by Robertson DaviesDeliverance by James DickeyThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Manticore by Robertson DaviesThe Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,957 books — 1,889 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonPerfume by Patrick SüskindWhite Noise by Don DeLilloGlengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,271 books — 2,435 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Cherry Orchard by Anton ChekhovThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
483 books — 860 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,182 books — 3,684 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,263 books — 28,372 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Trial by Franz KafkaMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfAn American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserManhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Best Books 1925
63 books — 63 voters

The Waste Land by T.S. EliotThe Plough and the Stars by Seán O'CaseyFräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
779 books — 1,134 voters
The Waste Land by T.S. EliotThe Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott FitzgeraldBabbitt by Sinclair LewisUlysses by James JoyceThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best of 1922
68 books — 63 voters

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorDubliners by James JoyceInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Collections of Short Stories
2,929 books — 2,071 voters
The Lives of Animals by J.M. CoetzeeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradFilm Directing Shot by Shot by Steven D. KatzVor der Kamera by Dorothea NeukirchenThe Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch
What we've read so far in...2014
9,483 books — 2,176 voters


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