The Round House by Louise ErdrichLaRose by Louise ErdrichThe Plague of Doves by Louise ErdrichFuture Home of the Living God by Louise ErdrichTracks by Louise Erdrich
Native American Female Authors
195 books — 61 voters

The Story of Buildings by Patrick  DillonFrom Mud Huts to Skyscrapers by Christine PaxmannWhat’s Inside? by Giles LarocheA City Through Time by D.K. PublishingMosque by David Macaulay
Architecture Books for Children
138 books — 20 voters
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. SeussThe Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgThe Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke MooreThe Hat by Jan BrettThe Twelve Days of Christmas by Jan Brett
Favorite Christmas Picture Books
889 books — 293 voters

The Borrowers by Mary NortonThe Minpins by Roald Dahl
Novels Featuring Miniature People
305 books — 78 voters

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
Caldecott Honor Books
293 books — 233 voters
The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe MartinMufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John SteptoeYeh-Shen by Ai-Ling LouieThe Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley ClimoElla's Big Chance by Shirley Hughes
Cinderella Stories
138 books — 158 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakOne Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. SeussThe Lorax by Dr. SeussOh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. SeussAmelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Best Childhood Picture Books
853 books — 514 voters
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakIf You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe NumeroffThe Lorax by Dr. SeussHarold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonChicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
Best Picture Books
3,087 books — 1,993 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezBlindness by José SaramagoThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
380 books — 282 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezBlindness by José SaramagoThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 566 voters
The Waves by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Great Stream of Consciousness Novels
132 books — 193 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Outermost House by Henry BestonAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Nature Books
1,156 books — 781 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,228 books — 1,636 voters

The Drowned Cities by Paolo BacigalupiFloodland by Marcus Sedgwick
Drowning Towns
423 books — 61 voters
Walden by Henry David ThoreauThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Outermost House by Henry BestonAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverIslands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
Waldenesque Books
6 books — 3 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Bill Gates Booklist
289 books — 206 voters
The Princess Bride by William GoldmanJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesThe Magus by John Fowles
Metafiction
442 books — 579 voters

100 Love Sonnets by Pablo NerudaThe Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo NerudaLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareSong of Myself by Walt Whitman
Best Poetry Books
2,989 books — 2,437 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldFrom the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Best Books Set in New York City
380 books — 393 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Dystopia!
1,220 books — 2,750 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica Roth
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,765 books — 26,019 voters

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Books set in Tokyo
93 books — 52 voters

Chocolat by Joanne HarrisCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee BenderLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Food-Related Fiction
898 books — 603 voters
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. ValenteJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. Valente
Books that Love Words
93 books — 117 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Modern Gothic
713 books — 1,360 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëEmma by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,877 voters


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