The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Most Poetic Book Titles
1,995 books — 891 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Best Feminist Fiction
1,499 books — 2,672 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Books by American Women
560 books — 182 voters
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerWhite Oleander by Janet FitchShe’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Best Beach Reads 2015
1,738 books — 2,267 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseLife of Pi by Yann MartelLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Best Philosophical Literature
1,170 books — 2,727 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryWater for Elephants by Sara GruenRoom by Emma Donoghue
Best Canadian Literature
2,332 books — 1,146 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Books about Books
1,384 books — 1,519 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Southern Literature
1,344 books — 2,573 voters

The Trees by Conrad RichterThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Best Unappreciated Books
4,366 books — 2,204 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,527 books — 10,283 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
1,710 books — 1,558 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Authors With Only One Novel
133 books — 120 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One hit wonders
18 books — 8 voters
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteInherit the Wind by Jerome LawrenceLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,182 books — 1,510 voters

Bel Canto by Ann PatchettLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerRoom by Emma DonoghueWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Smart Summer Reads
12,851 books — 10,754 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,186 books — 28,367 voters
Fools Crow by James Welch
Native American Historical Fiction
278 books — 275 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Edge of Never by J.A. RedmerskiThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsThe Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Best Book Boyfriends
10,741 books — 28,949 voters

How to Save Your Own Life by Erica JongWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Chick Lit for the Beach
1,386 books — 1,785 voters
The Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
924 books — 2,376 voters

Wit by Margaret EdsonDr. Faustus by Christopher MarloweMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklI Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah  GreenThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Medicine and Literature
1,850 books — 2,012 voters
A Tempest by Aimé CésaireThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge DanticatThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. JamesA House for Mr Biswas by V.S. NaipaulWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Colonial and Post-colonial Literature
165 books — 67 voters


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