Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Secret History by Donna TarttRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Books by Female Authors
1,362 books — 464 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeGreat Expectations by Charles DickensNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Victorian Novels
213 books — 507 voters

Howards End by E.M. ForsterA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfQueen Victoria by Lytton StracheyMaurice by E.M. ForsterAspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
Bloomsbury
110 books — 41 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas MannWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
GoodReads for Autumn
170 books — 61 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,813 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfBeloved by Toni Morrison
Great Women Authors
1,228 books — 334 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales o... by Robert Louis StevensonOn Liberty by John Stuart MillMaurice by E.M. Forster
Penguin Classics
595 books — 306 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfI, Claudius by Robert GravesGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 484 voters

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Everyman Library Classics
174 books — 96 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles DickensRoots by Alex HaleyOf Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 7,003 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Best Books Published in 2013
3,588 books — 7,162 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
NPR Best Books of 2013
138 books — 112 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
164 books — 694 voters
The American Heiress by Daisy GoodwinLove in a Cold Climate and Other Novels by Nancy Mitford
Downton Abbey-esque Books
601 books — 1,000 voters