To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellCold Mountain by Charles FrazierThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Books that evoke the South
479 books — 158 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,872 voters

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeCandide by VoltaireLes Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry FieldingThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding Fathers
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,008 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraKing Lear by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 702 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 541 voters
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Best Books of the 15th Century
72 books — 164 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 354 voters
The Travels by Marco PoloParzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
Best Books of the 13th Century
72 books — 186 voters

The Arabian Nights by Anonymous
Best Books of the 9th Century
18 books — 96 voters
Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Muslim Girls on the Cover
268 books — 141 voters

Kitchen by Banana YoshimotoThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezHeat and Dust by Ruth Prawer JhabvalaIn the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Women Around the World
1,159 books — 431 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueA Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
World War One Literature
224 books — 357 voters

Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Best Books 1933
76 books — 33 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Literature of Social Change
433 books — 314 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Great Women Authors
1,228 books — 334 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenEast of Eden by John SteinbeckBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEast o' the Sun and West o' the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Looking for Direction
153 books — 20 voters

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. MartinThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverI'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill BrysonConfederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Best Books of 1998
496 books — 227 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Godfather by Mario PuzoMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Kin
1,706 books — 128 voters

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Best Gay Fiction
2,649 books — 3,866 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezEva Luna by Isabel AllendeThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Latin American Lit (In Translation)
106 books — 48 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesClaudius the God by Robert GravesNight by Elie WieselThe Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 486 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyInkheart by Cornelia FunkeGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussHow the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. SeussOthello by William Shakespeare
Seeing Red
2,180 books — 462 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
My Favorite Books
2,178 books — 580 voters

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Books You've Burned
305 books — 51 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëStellaluna by Janell Cannon
Best Fiction about Adoption
328 books — 222 voters

Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeThe Little Mermaid by Hans Christian AndersenThe Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
244 books — 236 voters
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Highbrow Fantasy Books
419 books — 624 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingPerfume by Patrick SüskindMacbeth by William ShakespeareDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Evil Inside
469 books — 190 voters
Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasPerfume by Patrick SüskindTender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in France: Fiction
615 books — 150 voters


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