The Westing Game by Ellen RaskinSarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlanCaddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie BrinkThe Midwife's Apprentice by Karen CushmanSounder by William H. Armstrong
The Most Deserving Newbery
128 books — 3,020 voters
The Four Winds by Kristin HannahThe Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Best Books of 2021
1,440 books — 1,625 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Godfather by Mario PuzoIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,437 books — 16,304 voters
The Grifters by Thompson Jim
Best Jim Thompson Novels
31 books — 22 voters

Double Indemnity by James M. CainThe Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
Best Noir Novels
80 books — 64 voters
Alone by Megan E. Freeman
Mock Newbery 2022
132 books — 179 voters

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Books For Children 7-9
105 books — 6 voters
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Historical Fiction 2021
459 books — 754 voters

Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Great "Dog" Books
1,345 books — 1,973 voters
War Horse by Michael MorpurgoThe Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth LettsJustin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
Best Horse Books
629 books — 381 voters

Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
Mock Newbery 2021
117 books — 181 voters
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Favorite books from my childhood
4,499 books — 7,677 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
104 books — 1,242 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Red and the Black
103 books — 24 voters

Shane by Jack SchaeferHondo by Louis L'AmourLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisOld Yeller by Fred Gipson
Best Westerns
1,410 books — 1,570 voters
The Lake House by Kate Morton
Multiple / Dual story lines
409 books — 211 voters

Navigating Early by Clare VanderpoolThe Runaway King by Jennifer A. NielsenFortunately, the Milk by Neil GaimanSteelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Newbery 2014
123 books — 473 voters
The Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 502 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Cult Classics
1,576 books — 2,129 voters
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,957 books — 1,886 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,814 voters
Watership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly ClearyThe Black Stallion by Walter FarleyA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
What Book Got You Hooked?
3,967 books — 10,810 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Best Historical Fiction
7,836 books — 26,143 voters
Divergent by Veronica RothThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettTuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbittLord of the Flies by William GoldingHatchet by Gary Paulsen
Best Young Adult Books
13,251 books — 80,379 voters

The Piano Tuner by Daniel       Mason
Musical Fiction
369 books — 216 voters
Wonder by R.J. PalacioDune by Frank Herbert
Quarantine Reads
321 books — 40 voters



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