The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters
Angle of Repose by Wallace StegnerFail-Safe by Eugene Burdick
If You Like Mad Men . . .
63 books — 90 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHamlet by William Shakespeare
My Top Ten
87 books — 25 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Seasonal Reading Challenge Recommended Books
6,365 books — 4,646 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret GeorgeAntigone by Jean Anouilh
Awesome Women of the Ancient World
434 books — 950 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Books that Make you Laugh
3,505 books — 5,033 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Best Depressing Books
429 books — 429 voters

The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsHow the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America by Cristina PageThe Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn
Best Books of 2006
985 books — 746 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierRebecca by Daphne du MaurierMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Younger Woman/Older Man
583 books — 673 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandSiddhartha by Hermann HesseBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Books That Changed My World
3,277 books — 3,185 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy ChevalierThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneGirl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Art & Artists in Fiction
930 books — 1,105 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Twilight Saga by Stephenie MeyerTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Twilight Collection by Stephenie MeyerNew Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Books not to read
337 books — 182 voters
How We Decide by Jonah LehrerEar and Brain by Diana DeutschMusicophilia by Oliver SacksThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
Radiolab Suggested Readings
180 books — 240 voters

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,173 books — 2,013 voters
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirThe Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Best Feminist Books
2,517 books — 3,519 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Forced to read in school, but hated
321 books — 558 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAlice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Books You Will Keep Forever
808 books — 234 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyBeowulf by UnknownThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Grey Daze
769 books — 109 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMust you go? by Antonia Fraser
Best Books of 2010
1,574 books — 2,471 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceSilas Marner by George EliotIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Longest Sentences
72 books — 59 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
My Favorite Books
2,178 books — 580 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeShining Through by Susan Isaacs
Best Vacation Books
239 books — 136 voters


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