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Dune by Frank HerbertSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury1984 by George Orwell
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,853 books — 26,172 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardA Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
90 books — 1,633 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,115 books — 27,005 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
628 books — 2,775 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Unique Narrators
400 books — 347 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.In Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 983 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Booker Prize Winners
63 books — 2,010 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonParadise Lost by John MiltonA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,735 books — 13,307 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,888 voters
Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan
Best YA Fiction with GLBTQQI themes / characters
1,993 books — 6,012 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
15,243 books — 16,022 voters