Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 518 voters

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonMain Street by Sinclair LewisBabbitt by Sinclair LewisA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyThe Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Novels of the American Midwest
337 books — 157 voters
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 363 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,751 books — 1,626 voters
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Desert
487 books — 88 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  Smith
Fictional Bookworms
177 books — 122 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
326 books — 141 voters

White Teeth by Zadie SmithHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Best Multicultural General Fiction
588 books — 376 voters
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Best Black Historical Fiction
331 books — 306 voters

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Books Set in Vermont
389 books — 139 voters
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Best Books of 1981
326 books — 159 voters

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan PoeNiagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Falling and Felling
210 books — 48 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Unique Narrators
403 books — 346 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,617 books — 11,182 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,538 books — 3,550 voters

All the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenAll the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein
Corruption in High Places
436 books — 295 voters
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholom Aleichem
Yiddish Literature
75 books — 41 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Slavery
183 books — 115 voters
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Most Over Hyped and Annoying Books Ever
568 books — 603 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckTobacco Road by Erskine CaldwellThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Hardscrabble Life
408 books — 118 voters
To Build a Fire and Other Stories by Jack LondonThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Out in the Cold
298 books — 126 voters