The Life of Langston Hughes by Arnold RampersadThe Life of Langston Hughes by Arnold RampersadTalking at the Gates by James    CampbellHome And Exile by Chinua AchebeDust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Author Biographies and Memoirs
426 books — 125 voters
Mythology by Edith HamiltonD'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'AulaireThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellBeowulf by UnknownD'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
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1,395 books — 2,219 voters

The Collected Poems by Langston HughesLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Best Poetry Books
2,988 books — 2,429 voters
Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos KazantzakisThe End of Faith by Sam Harris
Books I Am Going to Hell For Reading
377 books — 412 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,224 books — 68,550 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Young Adult Books
13,113 books — 80,185 voters

Black Hawk Down by Mark BowdenThe Art of War by Sun TzuFlyboys by James D. BradleyJarhead  by Anthony Swofford
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,141 books — 2,389 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,318 books — 15,603 voters

The Mirror and the Lamp by M.H. AbramsFive Great English Romantic Poets by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Romantic Poets
114 books — 40 voters
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
"The {_______} Who " Titles
967 books — 129 voters

Cane by Jean Toomer
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,655 books — 120,501 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Awakening by Kate ChopinJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Feminist Fiction
1,499 books — 2,673 voters
Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'ConnorClassic Tales of Brer Rabbit by David BorgenichtPlays, 1957-1980 by Tennessee WilliamsThe Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark TwainTar Baby by Toni Morrison
Best Southern Literature
1,343 books — 2,573 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Stranger by Albert CamusFacing Mount Kenya by Jomo KenyattaThe Dark Child by Camara Laye
Best by African Authors
407 books — 222 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
YA Dystopia Novels
1,888 books — 11,249 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best Books Ever
76,477 books — 284,502 voters
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Memoirs by Women
3,027 books — 3,037 voters