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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 518 voters
Howards End by E.M. ForsterBleak House by Charles DickensThe House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
The Armchair Traveler's Guide to Abodes of Literature
308 books — 94 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
346 books — 160 voters
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
262 books — 367 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,874 books — 1,755 voters
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Desert
489 books — 91 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Fictional Bookworms
177 books — 121 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
330 books — 167 voters

White Teeth by Zadie SmithHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Best Multicultural General Fiction
592 books — 380 voters
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Best Black Historical Fiction
341 books — 349 voters

The Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneBabbitt by Sinclair LewisUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers
101 books — 85 voters
The Raft by Robert TrumbullTo Build a Fire by Jack London
Endurance in Fact and Fiction
95 books — 25 voters

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Books Set in Vermont
391 books — 140 voters
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Best Books of 1981
326 books — 162 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Books I Became So Obsessed With I Stopped Everything Else in My Life to Finish.
12,893 books — 10,668 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best of Mark Twain
50 books — 111 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
209 books — 47 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Unique Narrators
402 books — 349 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Read Them Twice...At Least
14,415 books — 11,982 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,865 books — 4,113 voters

All the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenAll the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein
Corruption in High Places
451 books — 350 voters
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholom Aleichem
Yiddish Literature
77 books — 43 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Slavery
183 books — 116 voters
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Most Over Hyped and Annoying Books Ever
562 books — 602 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckTobacco Road by Erskine CaldwellThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Hardscrabble Life
411 books — 118 voters
To Build a Fire and Other Stories by Jack LondonThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Out in the Cold
421 books — 139 voters

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The First Book Longer Than 400 Pages That I Read
33 books — 61 voters