The Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareEmma by Jane Austen
Best Humorous Books
4,331 books — 7,912 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroJourney to the Center of the Earth by Jules VerneFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Science Fiction Ever Written.
1,800 books — 3,968 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Must Read Classics
1,861 books — 4,650 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Best Science Fiction
3,651 books — 6,974 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Beach Reads 2013
2,203 books — 4,188 voters

The Time Machine by H.G. WellsSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,958 books — 5,245 voters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouConfessions by Jean-Jacques RousseauWild Swans by Jung ChangChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanMe by Katharine Hepburn
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,827 books — 6,352 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryEmma by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Female Lead Characters
4,847 books — 5,890 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
TO DIE FOR 2000 - 2015 STAND-ALONES
1,980 books — 5,354 voters

Salt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterEndurance by Alfred LansingBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
You Read a Book about What?
4,046 books — 2,107 voters

South and West by Joan DidionWomen & Power by Mary Beard
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
244 books — 86 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
2017: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,707 books — 203 voters

Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnBefore I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
Best Mysteries from the 2010s
606 books — 555 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHamlet by William Shakespeare
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,305 books — 17,504 voters

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Contemporary British Novels
505 books — 388 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,986 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Books Ever
76,282 books — 283,707 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Food-Related Fiction
889 books — 602 voters
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireTeaching Thinking by Robert Fisher
Books for Teachers/Educators
784 books — 643 voters

Vertigo by Dan Auiler
Hitchcock's Best Movies
6 books — 4 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Best Indian Fiction Books
913 books — 2,421 voters


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