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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Best Realistic Fiction
118 books — 144 voters
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah GreenVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo CoelhoFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Mind
437 books — 463 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,044 books — 26,797 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxRebecca by Daphne du MaurierLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Younger Woman/Older Man
676 books — 689 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyFingersmith by Sarah WatersAffinity by Sarah WatersThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Twists
8,703 books — 9,823 voters
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,246 books — 2,581 voters

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
Scary People Who Write Books
98 books — 69 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Female Lead Characters
4,899 books — 6,027 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Best Books for Morbid Kids
736 books — 526 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Odyssey by Homer
Quality Dark Fiction
2,703 books — 3,983 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëInferno by Dante AlighieriCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisThe Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Darkest Books of All Time
1,314 books — 1,736 voters
The End of the Affair by Graham GreeneLiving Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
Not So Happily-Ever-After
785 books — 1,076 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books to Read On a Rainy Day
772 books — 461 voters
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullersThe Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
Best Gothic Books of All Time
647 books — 3,642 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,159 books — 2,697 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerAffinity by Sarah Waters
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,938 books — 2,221 voters

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton EllisLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisDicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,273 books — 2,437 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodThe Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,847 books — 22,309 voters

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckMatilda by Roald Dahl
Best Books Ever
79,018 books — 294,054 voters
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelAnthem by Ayn Rand
The Worst Books of All Time
8,115 books — 19,898 voters