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
4,498 books — 8,337 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.
1,830 books — 4,138 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
1,891 books — 4,758 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
3,890 books — 8,036 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Beach Reads 2013
2,206 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
2,217 books — 5,514 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
6,703 books — 8,313 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
4,911 books — 6,060 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
TO DIE FOR 2000 - 2015 STAND-ALONES
2,000 books — 5,374 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?
4,170 books — 2,534 voters

South and West by Joan DidionWomen & Power by Mary Beard
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
247 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
2,678 books — 202 voters

Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnBefore I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
Best Mysteries from the 2010s
590 books — 556 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
16,089 books — 18,983 voters

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Contemporary British Novels
514 books — 410 voters
Yol by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,090 books — 26,992 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
79,440 books — 296,236 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Food-Related Fiction
1,212 books — 637 voters
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireTeaching Thinking by Robert Fisher
Books for Teachers/Educators
802 books — 694 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
939 books — 2,485 voters


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