A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  Smith
Teen Historical Fiction
1,398 books — 3,097 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
14,912 books — 16,653 voters

Mercy by Jodi PicoultSmall Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Best Jodi Picoult Books
29 books — 1,653 voters
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithThe Edge of Never by J.A. RedmerskiLooking for Alaska by John Green
Books That Had Me Bawling My Eyes Out
858 books — 1,596 voters

White Fang by Jack London
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
467 books — 854 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,877 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,716 books — 120,735 voters
Cat’s Eye by Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Best Feminist Fiction
1,499 books — 2,673 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienA Modest Proposal by Jonathan SwiftThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Books I Need To Re-Read
29 books — 6 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
747 books — 1,815 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodCat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Best of Margaret Atwood
101 books — 251 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,790 voters