Howards End by E.M. ForsterThe Secret Sharer by Joseph ConradThe Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne JewettThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Books 1910
82 books — 28 voters
Peter Pan by J.M. BarrieEthan Frome by Edith WhartonThe Celestial Omnibus and other Stories by E.M. ForsterThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Visioning by Susan Glaspell
Best of 1911
81 books — 27 voters

Death in Venice by Thomas MannButtered Side Down by Edna FerberRiders of the Purple Sage by Zane GreyDaddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
Best Books 1912
40 books — 21 voters
O Pioneers! by Willa CatherSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Custom of the Country by Edith WhartonThe Wanderer by Alain-Fournier
Best Books 1913
51 books — 28 voters

Dubliners by James Joyce
Best Books 1914
49 books — 19 voters
The Song of the Lark by Willa CatherThe Voyage Out by Virginia WoolfThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Books 1915
51 books — 33 voters

Dark Fields of the Republic by Adrienne RichThe Reivers by William FaulknerA Whistling Woman by A.S. ByattThe Sweet Dove Died by Barbara PymThe Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
The View from Sixty-Four
18 books — 1 voter
Still Life by A.S. ByattCity of Glass by Paul AusterMaus I by Art Spiegelman
Best Books of 1985
336 books — 216 voters

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
Best 1970s Historical Fiction
84 books — 86 voters
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
Best Books of 1994
416 books — 146 voters

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Best Books 1920
60 books — 31 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMr. Fortune by Sylvia Townsend WarnerDusty Answer by Rosamond LehmannThe Hotel by Elizabeth BowenAmerika by Franz Kafka
Best Books 1927
62 books — 48 voters

The Word Exchange by Greg Delanty
Best Anglo Saxon books
213 books — 49 voters
Phèdre by Jean RacineThe Metaphysical Poets by Helen  GardnerIsabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Amelia Lanyer by Isabella WhitneyJulius Caesar by William ShakespeareShakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Renaissance Literature Reading List
81 books — 55 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareIsabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Amelia Lanyer by Isabella WhitneyRichard II by William ShakespeareShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Sixteenth Century (Renaissance) List
42 books — 25 voters
O Pioneers! by Willa CatherThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Favorite Virago Modern Classics
270 books — 206 voters

Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. SeussA Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan ThomasThe Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron
Best Books 1954
122 books — 58 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Shadow of the Sun by A.S. ByattZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigCentennial by James A. MichenerAll the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein
Best Books 1974
194 books — 56 voters

Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne RichSula by Toni MorrisonBurr by Gore VidalThe Hollow Hills by Mary  StewartThe Great American Novel by Philip Roth
Best Books 1973
127 books — 54 voters
The Lorax by Dr. SeussMaurice by E.M. ForsterThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Best Books 1971
161 books — 62 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfHamlet by William ShakespeareMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Complete Poems by John KeatsJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best British and Irish Literature
1,169 books — 1,111 voters
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesThe Woodlanders by Thomas HardyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Bostonians by Henry James
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 411 voters

Middlemarch by George EliotFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyDaniel Deronda by George EliotThe American by Henry JamesThe Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 346 voters
The Mill on the Floss by George EliotSilas Marner by George EliotWives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
234 books — 398 voters

Oliver Twist by Charles DickensSartor Resartus by Thomas CarlyleThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeThe Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1830s
244 books — 236 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëMary Barton by Elizabeth GaskellA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 384 voters


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