Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Quirky Dark Novels
133 books — 175 voters
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Best Historical Mystery
2,274 books — 4,761 voters

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,052 books — 1,711 voters
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidQ & A by Vikas SwarupLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best South Asian Fiction
755 books — 1,921 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Historical Thrillers
214 books — 136 voters

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Belle Époque
384 books — 153 voters

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,458 books — 123,587 voters
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,279 books — 11,615 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,976 books — 26,506 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,088 books — 623 voters

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters
The Physician by Noah GordonMacbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best Middle Ages Books
1,264 books — 1,752 voters

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Physiker by Friedrich DürrenmattPerfume by Patrick SüskindThe Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
986 books — 961 voters
The Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonThe House at Riverton by Kate MortonThe Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Best Past-Present Books
379 books — 552 voters

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Downton Abbey-esque Books
614 books — 1,015 voters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Best Books of 2009
1,766 books — 6,927 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Books that Make you Laugh
3,516 books — 5,217 voters
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Humorous Books
4,407 books — 8,062 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,838 books — 9,197 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,319 books — 5,877 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Gothic Books of All Time
635 books — 3,571 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Love Stories
5,230 books — 9,732 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,749 books — 6,904 voters
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip Gourevitch
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,818 books — 1,703 voters


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