One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëBeloved by Toni MorrisonAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Memoirs by Women
3,038 books — 3,042 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Feminist Fiction
1,499 books — 2,673 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellNight by Elie WieselThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Books That Changed My World
3,288 books — 3,238 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,269 books — 5,235 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire100 Love Sonnets by Pablo NerudaCollected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Best Poetry Books
2,988 books — 2,429 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,306 books — 4,538 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,696 books — 120,660 voters

The World According to Garp by John IrvingSophie’s Choice by William StyronRagtime by E.L. DoctorowThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,955 books — 1,880 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,432 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesPossession by A.S. ByattThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeHigh Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,678 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,368 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,789 voters