Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/5650849-alan">Alan</a> (70 Lists)

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Best Books To Read In Autumn

876 books — 518 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer

Best Books of the Decade: 1930s

904 books — 1,255 voters

Essays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Rel... by Bertrand Russell

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung

Different Takes on Religion & Spirituality

1,388 books — 1,124 voters

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

190 books — 34 voters

The Tales of Uncle Remus by Julius Lester

Stone Soup by Alison Hawes

Best Children's Books Most People Haven't Heard of...

1,688 books — 773 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

Tragedies II by Seneca

The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin

Writers who committed suicide

455 books — 285 voters

Salem Possessed by Paul S. Boyer

Salem Witch Trial (nonfiction)

28 books — 9 voters

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Dubliners by James Joyce

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift

Best Books Under 200 Pages

953 books — 426 voters

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amo... by Ovid

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Best Poetry Books

2,982 books — 2,422 voters

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini

269 books — 35 voters

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler

Vasari's Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

History of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition by Frederick Hartt

On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti

Caravaggio by Francine Prose

Best Art and Art History Books

773 books — 312 voters

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

Tartuffe by Molière

Favorite Translated Literature

1,029 books — 498 voters

Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

True North by Jill Ker Conway

Memoirs by Women

3,015 books — 3,030 voters

Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

The Centaur by John Updike

A Month of Sundays by John Updike

Bech by John Updike

Buchanan Dying by John Updike

Best of John Updike

100 books — 10 voters

The Beatles Lyrics by The Beatles

Lyrics, 1962-2001 by Bob Dylan

The Complete Lyrics by Hank Williams

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer by Robert Kimball

The Complete Lyrics Of Lorenz Hart by Robert Kimball

121 books — 18 voters

Paterson by William Carlos Williams

The Cantos by Ezra Pound

The Lime Twig by John Hawkes

Selected Poems by Delmore Schwartz

Hermetic Definition by H.D.

Best New Directions Books

262 books — 179 voters

The Major Works by John Milton

The History of England by Thomas Babington Macaulay

God's Englishman by Christopher Hill

The Complete Poems by Andrew Marvell

Milton and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill

The English Civil Wars 1640 - 1660

94 books — 36 voters

Emma by Jane Austen

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Alice in Wonderland by Jane Carruth

Guardian - The 100 best novels written in English

101 books — 23 voters

Paying Guests by E.F. Benson

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

British Wit and Humour

559 books — 303 voters

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

The Holy Bible by Anonymous

Le Malade imaginaire by Molière

Best Books of the 17th Century

326 books — 702 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Emma by Jane Austen

Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul

My Childhood by Maxim Gorky

Best Coming of Age Stories

1,300 books — 1,131 voters

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli

King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Best Books of the 16th Century

192 books — 541 voters

Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Ulysses by James Joyce

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

180 books — 16 voters

God's Englishman by Christopher Hill

England on Edge by David Cressy

Thomas Wentworth by C.V. Wedgwood

The King's Peace, 1637-1641 by C.V. Wedgwood

Pride's Purge by David Underdown

British Civil Wars

54 books — 14 voters

Minor Latin Poets, Volume I by Publilius Syrus

Epigrams by Marcus Valerius Martialis

Maxims by François de La Rochefoucauld

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

Collections of Epitaphs, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Lines, Phrases, and Quotations

118 books — 30 voters

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Tartuffe by Molière

Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

King Lear by William Shakespeare

520 books — 455 voters

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The American by Henry James

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Books About Paris

712 books — 570 voters

Turning Into Dwelling by Christopher Gilbert

Best Poetry Books of 2015

35 books — 48 voters

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona Opie

Five Plays by Ben Jonson

Loving / Living / Party Going by Henry Green

REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)

3,182 books — 765 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever

2,606 books — 13,137 voters

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