Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Quirky Dark Novels
131 books — 173 voters
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Best Historical Mystery
2,061 books — 4,511 voters

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,007 books — 1,449 voters
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidQ & A by Vikas SwarupLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best South Asian Fiction
732 books — 1,891 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Historical Thrillers
207 books — 116 voters

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Belle Époque
383 books — 152 voters

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,404 books — 119,670 voters
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,187 books — 11,267 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,733 books — 25,960 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 623 voters

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,008 voters
The Physician by Noah GordonMacbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best Middle Ages Books
1,215 books — 1,688 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
1,028 books — 956 voters
The Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonThe House at Riverton by Kate MortonThe Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Best Past-Present Books
377 books — 546 voters

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Downton Abbey-esque Books
601 books — 1,000 voters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Best Books of 2009
1,769 books — 6,937 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Books that Make you Laugh
3,489 books — 4,998 voters
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Humorous Books
4,303 books — 7,858 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,795 books — 9,157 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,836 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best Gothic Books of All Time
572 books — 3,492 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
5,202 books — 9,631 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,871 voters
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip Gourevitch
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,753 books — 1,629 voters


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