The Holy Bible by Anonymous
Books That Changed My World
3,289 books — 3,259 voters
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Classic French Literature
345 books — 260 voters

A Doll's House by Henrik IbsenThe Cherry Orchard by Anton ChekhovThe Misanthrope by MolièreThe Seagull by Anton ChekhovOedipus Rex by Sophocles
Best Non-American and Non-British Plays
156 books — 66 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachThe Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Wall Bangers!
745 books — 462 voters

1066 and all that by W.C. Sellar1984 by George Orwell2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
When Was That? Dates in Titles
667 books — 112 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenDombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Best Sibling Books
773 books — 368 voters

Anansi Boys by Neil GaimanPrivate Lives by Noël CowardI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithBilly Budd, Sailor by Herman MelvilleThe Clicking of Cuthbert by P.G. Wodehouse
What We've Read So Far In 2010
4,982 books — 1,784 voters
Curious George by H.A. ReyPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieWhen We Were Very Young by A.A. MilneThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
classic children's books
170 books — 82 voters

The Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsBleak House by Charles Dickens
Victorian Novels
214 books — 508 voters
The Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Double by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyFathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Books set in St Petersburg
35 books — 30 voters

The Warden by Anthony Trollope
40+ Main Characters
332 books — 86 voters

The Aeneid by VirgilQuo Vadis by Henryk SienkiewiczLives of the Noble Romans by PlutarchJulius Caesar by William ShakespeareAntony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,085 voters
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor EstesThe Lifted Veil by George EliotThe 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. SeussThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneMonk's Hood by Ellis Peters
Inside Your Wardrobe
804 books — 119 voters

The Other Side of the Mountain by Thomas MertonMountain Gloom and Mountain Glory by Marjorie Hope Nicolson
Mountains
738 books — 105 voters
David Copperfield by Charles DickensThe Hundred Dresses by Eleanor EstesIdylls of the King by Alfred TennysonWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsOut Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Books that Made You Cry!
3,357 books — 7,974 voters

Washington Square by Henry JamesMiracle on 34th Street by Valentine DaviesThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithAll-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Tales of New York City
1,682 books — 1,255 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoMy Life in France by Julia ChildMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Books About Paris
721 books — 573 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,995 voters
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de AngeliThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThrough Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot
Doors, Portals, Gates
511 books — 189 voters

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Best Books of 2009
1,764 books — 6,930 voters
The Holy Bible by Anonymous
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
928 books — 2,382 voters

The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert FrostThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Complete Poems by John KeatsCollected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. EliotThe Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
Best Poets
524 books — 393 voters


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