A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithSloppy Firsts by Megan McCaffertyI Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Best Young Adult Fiction
3,599 books — 6,912 voters
Wicked by Gregory MaguireThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLamb by Christopher MooreThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Best Books Ever
75,995 books — 282,158 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,196 books — 5,204 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Best Arthurian Fiction
476 books — 1,442 voters

Outlander by Diana GabaldonP.S. I Love You by Cecelia AhernPossession by A.S. ByattThese Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls WilderI Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Best Love Stories
5,170 books — 9,631 voters
Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Best Action-Adventure Novels
2,517 books — 2,705 voters

The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasKatherine by Anya SetonNorth and South by John Jakes
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,631 books — 3,564 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,151 books — 17,361 voters

Outlander by Diana GabaldonGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
All Time Favorite Romance Novels
5,580 books — 12,532 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Shack by William Paul Young
Books You Are Tired Of Hearing About
734 books — 1,011 voters
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,946 books — 1,880 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling
13,627 books — 9,445 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayPrep by Curtis SittenfeldThe Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
The Worst Books of All Time
8,112 books — 19,875 voters

Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
Historical Fiction 2014
376 books — 1,970 voters

Outlander by Diana GabaldonGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
My Dream Leading Men...
2,465 books — 2,478 voters
Lamb by Christopher MooreThe Awakening by Kate ChopinWicked by Gregory MaguireThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,424 books — 119,730 voters

Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyWives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
529 books — 1,889 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. TaylorThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Glad my teacher made me read this book
340 books — 402 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Contemporary British Novels
506 books — 430 voters

Lamb by Christopher MooreThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Books that Make you Laugh
3,490 books — 4,999 voters

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonSarah's Key by Tatiana de RosnayThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,071 books — 5,722 voters
Lamb by Christopher MooreThe Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,406 books — 2,257 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
Hunks in History
209 books — 313 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Best Feminist Fiction
1,504 books — 2,673 voters



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