The Castle of Otranto by Horace WalpoleThe Italian by Ann RadcliffeMelmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert MaturinThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeVathek by William Beckford
Best Gothic Books of All Time
610 books — 3,532 voters
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoPossession by A.S. ByattThe Rule of Four by Ian CaldwellShroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James
Academic Mysteries
153 books — 41 voters

Experiencing God by Henry T. BlackabyThe Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Best Christian Growth Books Ever
275 books — 191 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDune by Frank HerbertAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Science Fiction
3,728 books — 7,163 voters

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,130 voters

The Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsGaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Best British Crime/Mystery Fiction
1,210 books — 1,258 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
104 books — 1,247 voters
The Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Viral Storm by Nathan WolfeStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Books for a Pandemic
704 books — 577 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Best African American Authors
189 books — 125 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Best African American Books
1,043 books — 1,140 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerJazz by Toni Morrison
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
570 books — 233 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Books Ever
77,083 books — 286,742 voters
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussTen Apples Up on Top! by Dr. SeussHorton Hears a Who! by Dr. SeussThe Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
68 books — 96 voters

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō
Simple Living & Minimalism
100 books — 160 voters
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieWhose Body? by Dorothy L. SayersThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
1,172 books — 2,478 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Best Book Titles
11,893 books — 8,171 voters
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Agatha Christie Book
123 books — 1,424 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Great Books of Southern Fiction
380 books — 440 voters

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Detective Fiction
1,205 books — 1,092 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
I'm glad someone made me read this book
11,054 books — 10,586 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books from High-School English Courses
245 books — 153 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
World's Greatest Novellas
718 books — 1,449 voters

Lady Midnight by Cassandra ClareThe Last Star by Rick Yancey
Can't Wait Books of 2016
1,358 books — 6,383 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsThe Big Over Easy by Jasper FfordeLost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,428 books — 2,343 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Cormac McCarthy Books
17 books — 182 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Favorite books from my childhood
4,434 books — 7,445 voters


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