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New York Review Books - Classics
632 books — 898 voters
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Best Books with Rural Settings
1,150 books — 1,030 voters

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The Most Influential Books
1,490 books — 5,294 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Help by Kathryn StockettOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Great Debut Novels
1,593 books — 1,484 voters

Candide by VoltaireThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Rape of the Lock by Alexander PopeThe Age of Reason by Thomas PaineRights of Man by Thomas Paine
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,749 books — 6,902 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
518 books — 2,293 voters

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Plague by Albert CamusNausea by Jean-Paul SartreNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best World Philosophy Book
953 books — 1,422 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Stranger by Albert CamusAnimal Farm by George OrwellFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
World's Greatest Novellas
727 books — 1,458 voters

The Immoralist by André GideThe Man-Eater of Malgudi by R.K. NarayanInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerNotes to Myself by Hugh Prather
Books That Make You Think
130 books — 98 voters