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The Color Purple by Alice WalkerI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverPossession by A.S. ByattThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,399 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerRabbit, Run by John UpdikeLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books I wish I had never read
1,278 books — 1,344 voters

The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
Historical Fiction In Translation
313 books — 23 voters
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
European History
787 books — 160 voters

London by Peter Ackroyd
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,834 books — 2,225 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyOliver Twist by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,996 voters

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddKinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview
94 books — 402 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
Best Nature Books
1,154 books — 791 voters

The Orchid Thief by Susan OrleanThe Shining by Stephen King
Books Made Into Movies That Were Awful
54 books — 31 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,781 books — 15,018 voters

Dissolution by C.J. SansomThe River Why by David James Duncan
Best Lesser-Known Books
1,864 books — 1,121 voters
Arguing with Idiots by Glenn BeckGodless by Ann CoulterComing Out Straight by Richard CohenGoing Rogue by Sarah PalinHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter
Dealbreakers: If You Like This Book, We Won't Get Along
2,037 books — 5,321 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Latin American Fiction
868 books — 1,162 voters
London by Peter AckroydLondon Under by Peter AckroydLondon by Edward RutherfurdThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
London Calling
1,234 books — 646 voters

All Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,138 books — 1,015 voters
Sick Puppy by Carl HiaasenA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Books that Make you Laugh
3,504 books — 5,083 voters

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithA Taste for Death by P.D. James
Bloomsbury 100 Must Read Crime Novels
101 books — 126 voters
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
What's the Book You Can't Wait to Read This Summer?
14,256 books — 14,933 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Male Character
3,165 books — 3,007 voters
The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,236 books — 8,067 voters

One for the Money by Janet EvanovichThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Favorite Chick-Lit
2,400 books — 4,617 voters
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Gardening Books
369 books — 156 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Ending
8,110 books — 6,133 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Literary Mysteries
2,574 books — 4,654 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGreat Expectations by Charles DickensWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Literary Fiction
1,550 books — 1,358 voters
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Worst Ending
269 books — 561 voters

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Best Feminist Fiction
1,500 books — 2,673 voters
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferGilead by Marilynne RobinsonMedicus by Ruth Downie
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,369 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
What To Read Next
20,650 books — 24,471 voters
Beloved by Toni MorrisonA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Entertainment Weekly New Classics
104 books — 258 voters


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