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Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelDandelion Wine by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLight a Penny Candle by Maeve BinchyThe Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Smells
640 books — 98 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Medicine and Literature
2,056 books — 2,297 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Best Ending
8,147 books — 6,328 voters
My Last Duchess and Other Poems by Robert BrowningThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William BlakeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Romantic Poets
114 books — 39 voters

Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)
446 books — 199 voters
The Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe King Must Die by Mary RenaultGod Is an Englishman by R.F. Delderfield
Best Literary Trilogies
267 books — 163 voters

Reviving Ophelia by Mary PipherThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Group by Mary McCarthy
Mary, Mary, quite contrary ...
478 books — 78 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisAngels & Demons by Dan Brown
Thrillers
5,026 books — 6,688 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensMoby Dick by Herman MelvilleThe Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
"Dear Reader" The Involved Narrator
63 books — 18 voters
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century
457 books — 112 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Unhappy Marriages
510 books — 329 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books on Loneliness
518 books — 499 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleRobinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
War and Travel on The Guardian's 1000 novels everyone must read
132 books — 70 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane AustenA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterHowards End by E.M. Forster
The English/British Novels {Fiction} Part 1
150 books — 45 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Families of Writers
428 books — 45 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.2 and Above
866 books — 443 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
True Crime--Well Written
408 books — 422 voters
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussThe Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenLittle Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart HymanThe Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
Inside Your Wardrobe
818 books — 120 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Silver Chair by C.S. LewisAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
A Kaleidoscope of Colors
2,437 books — 212 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 524 voters

Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Poetry Books
3,077 books — 2,684 voters
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons by Igor Stravinsky
Classical Music: Nonfiction
312 books — 83 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Godfather by Mario PuzoThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckRabbit, Run by John UpdikeIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Very Popular Novels of Mid-Century America
248 books — 58 voters
Falling Angels by Tracy ChevalierEmpire Falls by Richard RussoThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerAfter the Fall by Arthur Miller
Falling and Felling
209 books — 47 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
253 books — 570 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHamlet by William Shakespeare
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,261 books — 2,647 voters

The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
The American Experience in China--Fact and Fiction
61 books — 29 voters
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Postcolonial Britain
81 books — 29 voters


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