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The Giver by Lois LowryPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe BFG by Roald Dahl
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
1,018 books — 1,127 voters
The Island at the Center of the World by Russell ShortoKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian SelznickTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
What We've Read So Far In 2011
5,351 books — 1,374 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiSputnik Sweetheart by Haruki MurakamiRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaAfter Dark by Haruki Murakami
Japanese Books That Are Not Manga
259 books — 194 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra1984 by George OrwellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasUlysses by James Joyce
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,251 books — 11,542 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe World Without Us by Alan WeismanA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingWhat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas Frank
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,414 books — 8,208 voters
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas FrankThe Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
966 books — 1,134 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieWaiting for the Barbarians by J.M. CoetzeeA House for Mr Biswas by V.S. NaipaulIn a Free State by V.S. NaipaulGrimus by Salman Rushdie
Best Books in English, Non-British Author
93 books — 28 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,095 books — 630 voters

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Mysterious Stranger by Mark TwainA Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan ThomasThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Good short fiction
688 books — 391 voters
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Short Stories
1,779 books — 1,099 voters

Great Expectations by Charles DickensDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books Ever
79,436 books — 296,162 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
Stories For Book Lovers
8,519 books — 9,049 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Best Twentieth Century American Novels
325 books — 232 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Great American Novel
673 books — 1,111 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
American Literature
526 books — 181 voters
The Collected Poems by Langston HughesThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerMy Dearest Friend by Abigail Adams
Library of America Wish List
86 books — 25 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe BFG by Roald Dahl
Favorite books from my childhood
4,524 books — 7,735 voters
Glenn Beck's Common Sense by Glenn BeckAn Inconvenient Book by Glenn BeckJoe the Plumber by Samuel J. WurzelbacherAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,641 books — 5,999 voters

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Pulitzer Winners: Biographies & Autobiographies
122 books — 209 voters
The Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangThe Twelve Caesars by SuetoniusThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisPeter the Great by Robert K. Massie
Best History Books
4,102 books — 4,694 voters

The Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil GaimanMarvel 1602 by Neil GaimanThe Arrival by Shaun Tan
Best Graphic Novels
3,518 books — 6,822 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,731 books — 13,309 voters

I, Claudius by Robert GravesClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesHow Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
Best Books About Ancient Rome
759 books — 1,150 voters
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Book to Screen Interpretation
583 books — 480 voters

The Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Best Alternate History Novels and Stories
797 books — 1,379 voters
The Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Best Alternate History
388 books — 718 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,382 books — 4,698 voters
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann HesseEast of Eden by John SteinbeckCandide by VoltaireThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Philosophical Literature
1,224 books — 2,826 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Best Historical Fiction
8,248 books — 27,174 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,837 books — 26,145 voters


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