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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Books Set in Iowa
274 books — 77 voters
Poor George by Paula Fox
REALLY Seriously Underrated Books (100 to 500 Ratings)
1,302 books — 206 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 3: Britain & Ireland (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
96 books — 14 voters
The Transit of Venus by Shirley HazzardMemento Mori by Muriel SparkThe Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,941 books — 265 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
London Calling
1,237 books — 647 voters
Villette by Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Families of Writers
428 books — 45 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Quality Dark Fiction
2,704 books — 3,981 voters
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Best Books of 1987
376 books — 187 voters

Home by Toni MorrisonMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
War has no winners
1,151 books — 543 voters
Home by Toni Morrison
2012's Best Literary Fiction By People of Color
49 books — 125 voters

Winter by Ali Smith
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2018
158 books — 237 voters
Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu MiaojinIf Not, Winter by Sappho
LGBTQ literature in English translation
253 books — 66 voters

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Best Books 1948
85 books — 58 voters
Autumn by Ali SmithPriestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
100 Notable Books of 2017 - The New York Times
100 books — 93 voters

Wolf Solent by John Cowper PowysThe Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,202 books — 807 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Anarchist books
480 books — 383 voters

Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin
New York Review Books - Classics
633 books — 907 voters
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Best Books of 1980
391 books — 213 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersI Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah GreenWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Titlemania III: Whole-Sentence Titles
1,447 books — 149 voters
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
280 books — 234 voters

My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Multivolume Lit
197 books — 14 voters
The Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,840 books — 22,455 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XHousekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Best Books Ever
78,990 books — 294,132 voters
Song of Solomon by Toni MorrisonThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,890 voters

Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth T. Jackson
McMansion Hell Reading List
14 books — 3 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottPlanet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Science Fiction
3,865 books — 7,831 voters

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Classic Science Fiction - 1970-1979
315 books — 251 voters
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Best of Joyce Carol Oates
117 books — 86 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerHousekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Great American Novel
671 books — 1,101 voters
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
Europa Edition Books
128 books — 141 voters


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