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Twilight of Democracy by Anne ApplebaumThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtThe Great Debate by Yuval Levin
The New Center Reading List
59 books — 19 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeCloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferGilead by Marilynne RobinsonReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,838 books — 22,509 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferCloud Atlas by David MitchellJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Last Lecture by Randy PauschGilead by Marilynne Robinson
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,209 books — 28,383 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,677 books — 14,468 voters

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Dead by James Joyce
World's Greatest Novellas
737 books — 1,484 voters
Possession by A.S. ByattFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Secret History by Donna TarttPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Best Fiction Set in Academia
161 books — 159 voters

Possession by A.S. ByattThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Academia in Literature
136 books — 89 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesPossession by A.S. ByattPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Favorite Novels About Professors or Academics
506 books — 612 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonBleak House by Charles Dickens
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,718 books — 13,295 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensCitizens by Simon SchamaMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyThe French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
The French Revolution
232 books — 296 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoPossession by A.S. ByattThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
Stories For Book Lovers
8,510 books — 9,034 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoPossession by A.S. ByattLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Books about Books
1,394 books — 1,522 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyJohn Adams by David McCullough
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,878 books — 7,002 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'BrianA Man for All Seasons by Robert BoltThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Historical Fiction
8,137 books — 26,959 voters