The Bear in the Boat by Ilse-Margret VogelI Can Fly by Ruth KraussThe Monster at the End of this Book by Jon StoneMister Dog by Margaret Wise BrownThe Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey
Best Ever Little Golden Books
123 books — 52 voters
V. by Thomas PynchonDuke & Jill by Ron KolmRagged Dick by Horatio Alger Jr.A Cool Million by Nathanael WestWingman by Daniel Pinkwater
I Love New York City
609 books — 355 voters

Ghost World by Daniel ClowesJimmy Corrigan by Chris WareMy Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
Standalone Graphic Novels
402 books — 81 voters
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesLolita by Vladimir NabokovPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovFoucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters

Watership Down by Richard  AdamsInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Great Brain at the Academy by John D. FitzgeraldThe Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara RobinsonTales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Best Books 1972
235 books — 68 voters
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death by Daniel PinkwaterFrom the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgThe Westing Game by Ellen RaskinSherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong by A.J. LowHarriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Best Mysteries for Young Readers
585 books — 471 voters

Walker's Mammals of the World by Ronald M. NowakThe Book of Beasts by T.H. WhiteWatership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom Vol. 1 by Antonio ValleAll of the Red Panda Futa-kun by Masakazu Kobayashi
Best Animal Books
455 books — 191 voters
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona OpieThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresThe Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by AnonymousChess Story by Stefan ZweigTo the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 890 voters

5 Novels by Daniel PinkwaterLife Among the Savages / Raising Demons by Shirley JacksonA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Complete Saki by SakiBarrel Fever by David Sedaris
Best Humorous Books
4,326 books — 7,864 voters

The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales by Maria LeachArrow Book of Ghost Stories by Nora KramerFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal JohnsonMore Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzA Book of Goblins by Alan Garner
Children's Ghost Story Collections
263 books — 44 voters
Don Juan by Lord ByronJourney to the Polar Sea by John FranklinJerusalem by William BlakeThe Vision of Judgment by Lord ByronConquest of Granada by Washington Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1820s
200 books — 150 voters

Njal's Saga by AnonymousThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis BorgesJonathan Wild by Henry Fielding
Penguin Classics
595 books — 307 voters
My New York Diary by Julie DoucetLittle Lulu on Parade by Marjorie Henderson BuellHouse of Sugar by Rebecca KraatzMy Perfect Life by Lynda BarryMarbles in My Underpants by Renée French
Comics & Graphic Novels by Women
1,491 books — 1,361 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd AlexanderWest of Eden by Harry HarrisonThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,072 books — 11,674 voters
Life Among the Savages by Shirley JacksonRaising Demons by Shirley JacksonThe Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank by Erma BombeckIf Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma BombeckPhyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints by Phyllis Diller
Funny Women Memoirs
455 books — 1,550 voters

The Mote in God's Eye by Larry NivenGateway by Frederik PohlThe Guardians by John ChristopherWest of Eden by Harry HarrisonThe Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
S&L Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles
1,704 books — 2,203 voters
The Kalevala by Elias LönnrotTeutonic Mythology Vol. 1 by Jacob GrimmPresident Dwight's Decisions of Questions Discussed by the Se... by Timothy DwightTales of the Alhambra by Washington IrvingEssay on the Freedom of the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
244 books — 236 voters

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules VerneMark the Match Boy by Horatio Alger Jr.Biographies Contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Thomas Babington MacaulayFame and Fortune by Horatio Alger Jr.
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
234 books — 398 voters
Mahomet and His Successors Part 2 by Washington IrvingMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe History of England by Thomas Babington MacaulayRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar KhayyámNarrative of the Expedition to the China Seas and Japan, 1852... by Matthew Calbraith Perry
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 301 voters

The Kalevala by Elias LönnrotThe Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan PotockiCritical and Historical Essays by Thomas Babington MacaulayMohammed by Washington IrvingHistory of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 384 voters
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainPaul the Peddler; or, The Adventures of a Young Street Merchant by Horatio Alger Jr.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 346 voters

Stalky & Co by Rudyard KiplingA Shropshire Lad by A.E. HousmanThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar WildeIn Search of Treasure by Horatio Alger Jr.
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
466 books — 500 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainKing Solomon's Mines by H. Rider HaggardOn the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich NietzscheThe Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis StevensonResearches in Teutonic Mythology by Viktor Rydberg
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 411 voters

Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesLolita by Vladimir NabokovPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd AlexanderThe Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley SnyderThe Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le GuinCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Newbery Medal Honor Books
340 books — 443 voters

The secret battle by A.P. HerbertGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Proud Tower by Barbara W. TuchmanBright's Passage by Josh Ritter
The Great War
776 books — 599 voters
Alexander to Actium by Peter   GreenAlexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by Donald W. EngelsAlexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. by Peter   GreenThe History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius RufusLegends of Alexander the Great by Richard Stoneman
Alexander the Great
143 books — 95 voters


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