Ex Libris by Anne FadimanThe Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy MillerHowards End Is on the Landing by Susan         HillBy the Book by Ramona KovalThe Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
Bibliomemoirs
109 books — 27 voters

Pop. 1280 by Jim ThompsonThe Grifters by Thompson JimThe Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Best Jim Thompson Novels
31 books — 22 voters
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir SorokinWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinRoadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
Russian Science Fiction in English
58 books — 40 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerPerfume by Patrick SüskindThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,317 books — 15,588 voters
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Dark Path by David SchicklerTigerman by Nick HarkawayMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
What we've read so far in...2014
9,389 books — 2,046 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Victorian Novels
214 books — 506 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pompous Books to Read in Public
267 books — 152 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Books About Bookstores
641 books — 807 voters
The Slap by Christos TsiolkasBurial Rites by Hannah KentBarracuda by Christos TsiolkasQuestions of Travel by Michelle de KretserSo Much to Tell You by John Marsden
Great Australian novels
334 books — 131 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Postmodern Novels
102 books — 111 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir NabokovAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDay of the Oprichnik by Vladimir SorokinThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Russian Literature
513 books — 2,278 voters

Hawkeye, Volume 1 by Matt FractionThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiMaus I by Art SpiegelmanMaus II by Art SpiegelmanFables, Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
Graphic Novels that are Quality
1,103 books — 776 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Downton Abbey-esque Books
603 books — 999 voters

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
September 2013 Library Reads
10 books — 246 voters
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverThe Road by Cormac McCarthyRoom by Emma DonoghueA Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Books to Avoid While Pregnant
74 books — 37 voters

Angelmaker by Nick HarkawayTalulla Rising by Glen DuncanThe People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani BoianjiuDare Me by Megan AbbottTigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
Best Books of 2012
3,521 books — 9,201 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraUlysses by James JoyceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
746 books — 1,812 voters

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesLooking for Alaska by John GreenThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónA Life with Books by Julian BarnesFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books About Loving Books
374 books — 514 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,874 voters
Idiopathy by Sam ByersPig's Foot by Carlos AcostaBurial Rites by Hannah KentBallistics by D.W. WilsonY by Marjorie Celona
Waterstones Eleven 2013
11 books — 1 voter


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