The Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Best British and Irish Literature
1,167 books — 1,111 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,809 books — 49,781 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn Haybittle
Your Top 5 Reads in 2016
659 books — 234 voters

First Light by Geoffrey WellumThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleBattle Order 204 by Christobel MattingleyLast of the Ten Fighter Boys by Jimmy CorbinThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Aviation Books
392 books — 179 voters
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
347 books — 234 voters

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleHistory by Elsa MoranteTwo Women by Alberto MoraviaEarly One Morning by Virginia Baily
Favourite WW2 Books Set in Italy
98 books — 114 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA British Boy in Fascist Italy by Peter Ghiringhelli
World War 2 books
388 books — 210 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
WWII Historic Fiction
1,404 books — 1,526 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleEvery Man Dies Alone by Hans FalladaThe Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
380 books — 420 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyWolf Hall by Hilary MantelAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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3,630 books — 3,562 voters

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Best Books for Smart People
716 books — 143 voters
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Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,871 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene
World War II Fiction
1,285 books — 2,014 voters
The Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesRomola by George EliotThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Books Set in Florence
102 books — 83 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttUs by David NichollsIn the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider RahmanThe Children Act by Ian McEwan
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
164 books — 694 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Book Group Worthy Titles for 2014
243 books — 1,193 voters

Cloud Atlas by David  MitchellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,381 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,415 books — 2,338 voters

Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterRomola by George Eliot
Italy
977 books — 494 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Aspern Papers by Henry JamesA British Boy in Fascist Italy by Peter Ghiringhelli
Reading Italy
444 books — 237 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Waves by Virginia WoolfCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyHamlet, Prince of Denmark by A.J. Hartley
Best Books Ever
75,975 books — 282,035 voters