The House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Latin American Fiction
901 books — 1,221 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Philosophical Literature
1,206 books — 2,876 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Best Indian Fiction Books
936 books — 2,462 voters
The Art of War by Sun TzuTao Te Ching by Lao TzuWild Swans by Jung ChangBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieThe Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Chinese Literature
316 books — 154 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoYear of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction
7,988 books — 26,573 voters
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanWild Swans by Jung ChangSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Best Books About China
750 books — 589 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Best Book Titles
12,291 books — 8,660 voters
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Best for Book Clubs
15,417 books — 19,788 voters

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. FriedmanThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne SeierstadThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiIstanbul by Orhan Pamuk
Best Middle East Nonfiction
537 books — 378 voters

Stone's Fall by Iain PearsThe Italian Secretary by Caleb CarrHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie FordThe Last Dickens by Matthew PearlThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Historical Mystery
2,278 books — 4,809 voters
Northanger Abbey by Jane AustenNorthern Lights by Philip PullmanEast of Eden by John SteinbeckAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge
Looking for Direction
153 books — 20 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareHenry V by William Shakespeare
The Best Shakespeare Plays
39 books — 171 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Best Russian Literature
522 books — 2,308 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanCitizens by Simon SchamaA History of Russia by Nicholas V. RiasanovskyThe Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
Best History Books
4,001 books — 4,435 voters
Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesThe Wars by Timothy FindleyComing up for Air by George OrwellAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
World War One Literature
226 books — 358 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansThe Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Best Children's Books
5,406 books — 7,008 voters
River of Smoke by Amitav GhoshThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesA Man of Parts by David LodgeThe Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2011
155 books — 277 voters

A Short History of Progress by Ronald WrightThe Diversity of Life by Edward O. WilsonThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinProust and the Squid by Maryanne WolfAnd No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,409 books — 5,004 voters

Pearl of China by Anchee Min
Historical Fiction 2011
123 books — 586 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Young Adult Books
13,251 books — 80,528 voters
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilnePaddington Bear by Michael BondCurious George Four Board Book Set by H.A. ReyWhen We Were Very Young by A.A. MilneThe Gingerbread Man by Catherine McCafferty
Best Books for a Baby Shower!
688 books — 549 voters


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