East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayLolita by Vladimir NabokovDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Fifties Fiction Favorites
99 books — 112 voters
Just Mercy by Bryan StevensonDarkness Visible by William StyronThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis NordanA Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Your Top 5 Reads in 2015
1,518 books — 873 voters

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Your Single Favourite Read of All Time
148 books — 79 voters
The Last of the Just by André Schwarz-BartThe Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyBeloved by Toni Morrison
Masters Of Misery
407 books — 99 voters

Light in August by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Unvanquished by William Faulkner
Mississippi Writers - Best 100 books by
305 books — 115 voters
The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraThe Black Flower by Howard BahrAndersonville by MacKinlay KantorThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Civil War Novels
148 books — 74 voters

Shoeless Joe by W.P. KinsellaThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Magical Realism
445 books — 640 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  HarrisThe Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Disturbingly Enticing
498 books — 197 voters

Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee  SmithCold Mountain by Charles FrazierLook Homeward, Angel by Thomas WolfeA Death in the Family by James AgeeCharms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Best Books Set in Appalachia
800 books — 842 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Christmas Memory by Truman CapoteFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggHell at the Breech by Tom FranklinAll Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
Alabama Books
267 books — 131 voters
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest HemingwayThe Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction by Henry JamesCollected Stories by William FaulknerThe Long Valley by John SteinbeckThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Collections of Short Stories
2,897 books — 2,042 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckParadise Lost by John MiltonTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,967 books — 121,372 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLord of the Flies by William GoldingNight by Elie WieselBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,241 books — 11,485 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraRegeneration by Pat BarkerMatterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Best War Novels
1,693 books — 1,441 voters
Matterhorn by Karl MarlantesBetter Times Than These by Winston GroomWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreFields of Fire by James WebbChickenhawk by Robert Mason
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
331 books — 638 voters

The Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John SteinbeckFirelord by Parke GodwinThe Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
Best Arthurian Fiction
480 books — 1,446 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerFlannery O'Connor by Flannery O'ConnorThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersLight in August by William Faulkner
100 Best American Authors
754 books — 616 voters

The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby
Books for a Pandemic
704 books — 577 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerBreaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerEclipse by Stephenie MeyerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Most Over Hyped and Annoying Books Ever
561 books — 603 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Suicide
708 books — 494 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraThe Civil War by Shelby FooteThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneGods and Generals by Jeff ShaaraThe Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
Best American Civil War Books
1,008 books — 984 voters