The Crook Factory by Dan SimmonsPapa and Fidel by Karl Alexander
Obsessed with Hemingway
48 books — 15 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldNight by Elie WieselLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,944 books — 121,266 voters

Water for Elephants by Sara GruenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Best for Book Clubs
15,005 books — 18,878 voters

Dragon Day by Anson MontgomeryInto the Hollow Earth by Anson MontgomeryMaus I by Art Spiegelman
Best Young Adult Books
13,144 books — 80,216 voters
Path of the Masters by Julian P. JohnsonIn Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
What To Read Next
20,624 books — 24,448 voters

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,138 books — 1,015 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Best Historical Fiction
7,486 books — 25,677 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,241 books — 8,068 voters
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Overcoat by Nikolai GogolSketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,873 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,788 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books Ever
76,928 books — 286,239 voters

The Overcoat by Nikolai GogolThe House of the Dead by Fyodor DostoevskyResurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
514 books — 2,284 voters