To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
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7,874 books — 49,842 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis CarrollDracula by Bram StokerThe Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Folio Society Editions
446 books — 65 voters

'Salem's Lot by Stephen  KingThe Stand by Stephen  King
Stephen King's absolute BEST novels
23 books — 18 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books for and About Activists
325 books — 308 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradLord Jim by Joseph ConradThe Secret Agent by Joseph ConradNostromo by Joseph ConradYouth by Joseph Conrad
Best Joseph Conrad Novels
33 books — 50 voters
It by Stephen  KingDracula by Bram StokerMisery by Stephen  KingThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  HarrisFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Horror Novels
2,131 books — 5,520 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
761 books — 1,835 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonNotes from a Small Island by Bill BrysonKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Favorite Travel Books
2,051 books — 3,977 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction
7,986 books — 26,567 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,651 books — 18,687 voters

The Beatles Anthology by The BeatlesNo One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry HopkinsJohn Lennon by Philip Norman
Music Biographies
536 books — 240 voters
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. FeynmanDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellTouching the Void by Joe SimpsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,515 books — 7,745 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
World's Greatest Novellas
733 books — 1,469 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,698 books — 124,274 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsLord of the Flies by William GoldingCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
78,655 books — 293,074 voters