Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,859 books — 6,382 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Secret History by Donna TarttSummer Term at St Clare's by Enid BlytonSecond Form at St Clare's by Enid Blyton
Boarding School Stories
965 books — 1,019 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAnimal Farm by George OrwellLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,336 books — 5,853 voters
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Host by Stephenie MeyerMen Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John  Gray
Everyone's Read It But Me
774 books — 4,322 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best for Book Clubs
14,892 books — 18,768 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThis Is All by Aidan ChambersGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Sweet Far Thing by Libba BrayThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Long Good Books for Voracious Readers
255 books — 124 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Beauty Myth by Naomi WolfNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Best Feminist Books
2,554 books — 3,545 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,767 books — 26,024 voters
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,242 books — 68,819 voters

Five on a Treasure Island by Enid BlytonCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottMatilda by Roald Dahl
Favorite books from my childhood
4,427 books — 7,435 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Best Historical Fiction
7,440 books — 25,632 voters

Godless by Ann CoulterHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann CoulterThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,638 books — 5,989 voters
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,875 voters