The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Spark of Life by Erich Maria RemarqueDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakArch of Triumph by Erich Maria RemarqueRoom by Emma DonoghueThe Gathering by Anne Enright
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
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Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
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521 books — 2,296 voters
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel PitcherMy Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011
155 books — 277 voters

Alias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Best Historical Fiction
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The Fault in Our Stars by John  Green
What Top YA Books Should I Read?
189 books — 154 voters