Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
19th Century Novels by Female Writers
128 books — 59 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Iliad by HomerJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëCollected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
ATY 2020 - The Classics
96 books — 47 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Classic Lit 101
71 books — 4 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustMemórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
Best Classic Love Stories
391 books — 59 voters
The Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Best Underrated/Overlooked Classics
174 books — 91 voters

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Complete Stories by Clarice LispectorThe Complete Essays by Michel de MontaigneJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Books of 1000-1999 A.D.
347 books — 103 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Twentieth Century American Novels
299 books — 226 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriUlysses by James Joyce
Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
103 books — 151 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDracula by Bram StokerMiddlemarch/Silas Marner/Amos Barton by George EliotNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Must Read Classics
1,857 books — 4,628 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlBefore I Fall by Lauren OliverThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien1984 by George Orwell
Best Young Adult Books
13,089 books — 80,135 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best for Book Clubs
14,507 books — 18,318 voters
The Phoenician Women by EuripidesTrojan Women by SenecaThe Republic by PlatoThe Histories by HerodotusThe Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Best Books of the Ancient World
277 books — 296 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Trippy Books
832 books — 894 voters
Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion by Jane AustenFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,375 books — 119,488 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMemórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,330 books — 5,835 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Odyssey by HomerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Books Ever
75,603 books — 281,030 voters