On Cats by Doris Lessing
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Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Woman-Authored Books
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Historical Fiction
7,860 books — 26,183 voters
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Best Books of the 19th Century
1,749 books — 6,905 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,875 books — 49,819 voters
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Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,510 books — 123,786 voters

The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
Tea for Me, Please
142 books — 57 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Love Stories
5,237 books — 9,764 voters
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Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
989 books — 964 voters

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Best Russian Literature
521 books — 2,297 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
29 books — 847 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Food-Related Fiction
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Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
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