The Crying Book by Heather ChristleThe Argonauts by Maggie NelsonBluets by Maggie NelsonCitizen by Claudia RankineDon’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
Lyric Essay and Hybrid Genre
59 books — 26 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Waves by Virginia WoolfOrlando by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfBetween the Acts by Virginia Woolf
From Virginia's Room
85 books — 60 voters

Down Below by Leonora Carrington
NYRB Classics: Books by Women
143 books — 49 voters
The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,014 books — 1,456 voters

Satan Says by Sharon OldsComplete Poems by Marianne MooreThe Dead and the Living by Sharon OldsThe Will to Change by Adrienne RichHere by Wisława Szymborska
Best Contemporary Female Poets
130 books — 21 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonThe Complete Sonnets and Poems by William ShakespeareCollected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. EliotThe Complete Poems by John KeatsThe Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Best Poets
523 books — 392 voters

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Unhappy Marriages
486 books — 289 voters

The Collected Stories by Amy HempelDubliners by James JoyceThe Collected Stories by Lorrie MooreNo One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Best Short Story Collections
1,553 books — 859 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Most Poetic Book Titles
1,996 books — 893 voters

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Most Exciting Books Coming Out Fall 2011
216 books — 848 voters
Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins GilmanJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëStargirl by Jerry SpinelliSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Girl Power Books
1,121 books — 1,041 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLolita by Vladimir NabokovHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Raven by Edgar Allan PoeI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Books with birds in the title
2,016 books — 277 voters
The Collected Stories by Amy HempelRunaway by Alice MunroNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroBirds of America by Lorrie Moore
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
127 books — 226 voters

The Wild Iris by Louise GlückThe Collected Poems by Wallace StevensThe Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
Pulitzer Winners: Poetry
103 books — 54 voters
Everything is Quiet by Kendra Grant Malonelong love poem with descriptive title by Matthew SavocaEverything Was Fine Until Whatever by Chelsea MartinSometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs by Ellen Kennedy
Great Small Press Books and Chapbooks
255 books — 182 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëVillette by Charlotte Brontë
Best of Brontë
23 books — 368 voters
Death of a Salesman by Arthur MillerA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsThe Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Best American Plays
250 books — 367 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaThe Rattle Bag by Seamus HeaneySong of Myself by Walt Whitman
Sounds
668 books — 51 voters
The Rattle Bag by Seamus HeaneyMary Poppins by P.L. TraversThe Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Handbags on the Cover
27 books — 17 voters

The Rattle Bag by Seamus HeaneyThe Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Luggage
108 books — 41 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaHopscotch by Julio CortázarDoctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
58 books — 119 voters


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