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
Best Southern Literature
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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
8,396 books — 27,568 voters
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Best Books of the 19th Century
1,744 books — 6,938 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,801 books — 49,896 voters
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Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
33,252 books — 126,194 voters

The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
Tea for Me, Please
143 books — 58 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Love Stories
5,284 books — 9,903 voters
The Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
999 books — 973 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Russian Literature
501 books — 2,311 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
26 books — 846 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Food-Related Fiction
1,211 books — 636 voters

Animal's People by Indra SinhaKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiIlluminations by Philippe SollersMeasuring the World by Daniel KehlmannIncendies by Wajdi Mouawad
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,208 books — 28,381 voters