Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/264971-deodand">Deodand</a> (56 Lists)

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Dune by Frank Herbert

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Best Books of the Decade: 1960s

1,356 books — 1,779 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

1984 by George Orwell

Emma by Jane Austen

Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan

182 books — 106 voters

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Firestarter by Stephen King

Congo by Michael Crichton

Best Books of 1980

326 books — 211 voters

Asterix in Switzerland by René Goscinny

Best Books 1970

210 books — 76 voters

Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein

The Stand by Stephen King

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

1,245 books — 3,416 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

Favorite books from my childhood

4,421 books — 7,428 voters

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Unrequited Love

366 books — 193 voters

To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Little, Big by John Crowley

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,257 books — 2,434 voters

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

Scientists and Philosophers

233 books — 157 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Watchmen by Alan Moore

8,037 books — 6,083 voters

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,226 books — 8,060 voters

Betty Crocker's Cookbook by Betty Crocker

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg

Diners, Drive-ins and Dives by Guy Fieri

Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2009 by Cooking Light

1,439 books — 1,105 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,606 books — 13,136 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Best Love Stories

5,172 books — 9,632 voters

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

Best Non-fiction War Books

2,126 books — 2,362 voters

Maus I by Art Spiegelman

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

Margot Fonteyn by Meredith Daneman

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

5,820 books — 6,348 voters

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Best Traveling Vicariously

2,122 books — 1,849 voters

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Thickest Books Ever

889 books — 2,489 voters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Favorite Book in the Harry Potter Series

28 books — 1,802 voters

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

Lust for Life by Irving Stone

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Art & Artists in Fiction

930 books — 1,105 voters

In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Soulless by Gail Carriger

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Abandoned Books

1,473 books — 1,465 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,837 books — 3,600 voters

Carrie by Stephen King

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Shining by Stephen King

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,196 books — 11,298 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

442 books — 578 voters

Little, Big by John Crowley

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

14,463 books — 14,676 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Best Gothic Books of All Time

585 books — 3,503 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Books you wish they would teach in high school

118 books — 208 voters

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn

You Want to Read in 2010

1,079 books — 1,975 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Books I wouldn't have discovered without Goodreads

2,678 books — 1,034 voters

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote

BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara

Best Female Lead Characters

4,846 books — 5,885 voters

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