The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneMacbeth by William ShakespeareVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best Female Character
1,026 books — 448 voters
Walden by Henry David ThoreauBlindness by José SaramagoJulie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead GeorgeIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellOpen Boat by Stephen Crane
Best Survival Stories
1,179 books — 1,723 voters

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami1984 by George OrwellThe 13th Warrior by Michael CrichtonThe 42nd Parallel by John Dos PassosThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Numbers Game
253 books — 12 voters

Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. ChestertonTAZ by Hakim Bey
Anarchist books
477 books — 379 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Stand by Stephen  KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Dystopia!
1,232 books — 2,785 voters

Black Beauty by Anna SewellWatership Down by Richard  AdamsAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack LondonWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Best Animal-Themed Books
617 books — 491 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerBreaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerEclipse by Stephenie MeyerOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
Popular Books that Annoy You
1,009 books — 2,008 voters
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry FieldingLes liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Books 1951
105 books — 50 voters
’Salem’s Lot by Stephen  KingThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaDracula by Bram StokerInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Best Adult Vampire Books
1,839 books — 4,979 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Best Books 1949
102 books — 43 voters
1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiThe Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Dante Club by Matthew PearlThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Writers Who Write About Writers
379 books — 107 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeThe Jungle by Upton SinclairThe Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,056 books — 1,711 voters

Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk CrossThe Wreath by Sigrid UndsetI, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse CondéThe Witch of Cologne by Tobsha LearnerMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Healers, Midwives, and Doctors
52 books — 38 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyLady of the Forest by Jennifer RobersonThe Sibyl by Pär Lagerkvist
Awesome Women of the Ancient World
449 books — 968 voters

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneSister Carrie by Theodore DreiserExit the Actress by Priya ParmarAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Best Books About Mistresses
460 books — 751 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyDracula by Bram Stoker
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,151 books — 1,032 voters

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasCrimson Petal And The White by Michel FaberLittle Dorrit by Charles DickensNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Classical Covers
48 books — 7 voters
1984 by George OrwellFeed by M.T. AndersonSold by Patricia McCormickThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
I'm Glad It Didn't Happen To Me
55 books — 16 voters

The Feast of All Saints by Anne RiceThe Witching Hour by Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceLancelot by Walker PercyA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
New Orleans
231 books — 100 voters
Night of the Wolf by Alice BorchardtThe Book of Shadows by James ReeseThe Silver Wolf by Alice BorchardtIn a Dark Wood by Michael CadnumLady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson
Historical Fantasy
380 books — 193 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy by Charles Bernard NordhoffThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Garrison KeillorHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Best Summer Reads
1,084 books — 190 voters
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam HarrisThe Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
Notable Atheist Books
584 books — 995 voters


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