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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenThe Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Best Books To Read In Autumn
877 books — 518 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. SayersThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsJoy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
906 books — 1,255 voters

Essays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Rel... by Bertrand RussellWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauMemories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
Different Takes on Religion & Spirituality
1,396 books — 1,131 voters
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Snow Day Books
190 books — 34 voters

The Tales of Uncle Remus by Julius LesterStone Soup by Alison Hawes
Best Children's Books Most People Haven't Heard of...
1,699 books — 782 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLetters from a Stoic by SenecaTragedies II by SenecaThe Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin
Writers who committed suicide
451 books — 284 voters

Salem Possessed by Paul S. Boyer
Salem Witch Trial (nonfiction)
28 books — 9 voters
As You Like It by William ShakespeareMiguel Street by V.S. NaipaulAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollDubliners by James JoyceA Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift
Best Books Under 200 Pages
951 books — 425 voters

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonThe Oxford Shakespeare by William ShakespeareThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerAmores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amo... by OvidEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Best Poetry Books
2,996 books — 2,448 voters
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill WhistlerThe Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini
Doubly Gifted
269 books — 35 voters

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill WhistlerVasari's Lives of the Artists by Giorgio VasariHistory of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition by Frederick HarttOn Painting by Leon Battista AlbertiCaravaggio by Francine Prose
Best Art and Art History Books
773 books — 312 voters
Dead Souls by Nikolai GogolAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertUncle Vanya by Anton ChekhovTartuffe by Molière
Favorite Translated Literature
1,034 books — 499 voters

Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale HurstonPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardMemories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthyThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerTrue North by Jill Ker Conway
Memoirs by Women
3,068 books — 3,094 voters
Rabbit at Rest by John UpdikeThe Centaur by John UpdikeA Month of Sundays by John UpdikeBech by John UpdikeBuchanan Dying by John Updike
Best of John Updike
100 books — 10 voters

The Beatles Lyrics by The BeatlesLyrics, 1962-2001 by Bob DylanThe Complete Lyrics by Hank WilliamsThe Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer by Robert KimballThe Complete Lyrics Of Lorenz Hart by Lorenz Hart
LYRICS
121 books — 18 voters
Paterson by William Carlos WilliamsThe Cantos by Ezra PoundThe Lime Twig by John HawkesSelected Poems by Delmore SchwartzHermetic Definition by H.D.
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters

The Major Works by John MiltonThe History of England by Thomas Babington MacaulayGod's Englishman by Christopher HillThe Complete Poems by Andrew MarvellMilton and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
The English Civil Wars 1640 - 1660
94 books — 36 voters
Emma by Jane AustenMiddlemarch by George EliotUlysses by James JoyceThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneAlice in Wonderland by Jane Carruth
Guardian - The 100 best novels written in English
101 books — 23 voters

Paying Guests by E.F. BensonAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Taming of the Shrew by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
British Wit and Humour
559 books — 303 voters
Twelfth Night by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Holy Bible by AnonymousLe Malade imaginaire by Molière
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 705 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainEmma by Jane AustenMiguel Street by V.S. NaipaulMy Childhood by Maxim Gorky
Best Coming of Age Stories
1,305 books — 1,135 voters
Henry V by William ShakespeareMandragola by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Discourses by Niccolò MachiavelliKing Henry IV, Part 1 by William ShakespeareAs You Like It by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 544 voters

Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul BellowAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneUlysses by James JoyceNicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Go-To Novels
180 books — 16 voters
God's Englishman by Christopher HillEngland on Edge by David CressyThomas Wentworth by C.V. WedgwoodThe King's Peace, 1637-1641 by C.V. WedgwoodPride's Purge by David Underdown
British Civil Wars
54 books — 14 voters

Minor Latin Poets, Volume I by Publilius SyrusEpigrams by Marcus Valerius MartialisMaxims by François de La RochefoucauldBartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
Collections of Epitaphs, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Lines, Phrases, and Quotations
118 books — 30 voters
Henry V by William ShakespeareTartuffe by MolièreLysistrata and Other Plays by AristophanesTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William Shakespeare
Best Play Ever
520 books — 456 voters

Père Goriot by Honoré de BalzacThe Red and the Black by StendhalThe American by Henry JamesDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Books About Paris
719 books — 573 voters
Turning Into Dwelling by Christopher Gilbert
Best Poetry Books of 2015
35 books — 48 voters

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona OpieFive Plays by Ben JonsonLoving / Living / Party Going by Henry Green
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,141 books — 767 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,618 books — 13,159 voters


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