Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/8636137-g">G</a> (25 Lists)

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Clear by Carys Davies

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer

Best Books of 2024

871 books — 937 voters

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Best Books of 1980

327 books — 213 voters

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

Toad by Katherine Dunn

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

Best Books of 2022

1,550 books — 1,855 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

Best Gothic Novels/Suspense Novels

441 books — 487 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Best Books 2019

1,128 books — 1,310 voters

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Best Books of the 20th Century

7,889 books — 49,796 voters

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Dinner by Herman Koch

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Frog by Mo Yan

Best Books of 2009

1,764 books — 6,929 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Sandman, Vol. 8 by Neil Gaiman

The Sandman, Vol. 9 by Neil Gaiman

Best Books of 1995

431 books — 192 voters

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

There There by Tommy Orange

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

The Boat People by Sharon Bala

Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Best Books of 2018

1,654 books — 2,956 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee

Best Books of 2019

1,388 books — 1,958 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1,318 books — 5,860 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Newbery Medal Winner Books

107 books — 376 voters

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Dreams in the Golden Country by Kathryn Lasky

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume

Journey to America by Sonia Levitin

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

Jewish Americans in Children's Literature

458 books — 107 voters

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Best Plays Ever

856 books — 1,132 voters

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Katalin Street by Magda Szabó

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2017 Book Preview

77 books — 158 voters

Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergović

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić

Sarajevo by Zlatko Dizdarević

Best South Slavic Literature

364 books — 309 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Mila 18 by Leon Uris

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

City of Thieves by David Benioff

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

Jews in Literature

885 books — 312 voters

After Disasters by Viet Dinh

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine

Moonstone by Sjón

The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cárdenas

The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2016 Book Preview

92 books — 166 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,611 books — 25,117 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Night by Elie Wiesel

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Oprah's Book Club Picks

128 books — 2,201 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Best War Novels

1,700 books — 1,449 voters

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Best Books of the 21st Century

9,855 books — 22,250 voters

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Best Historical Fiction

7,703 books — 25,958 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Best Southern Literature

1,364 books — 2,582 voters

Maurice by E.M. Forster

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill

The Charioteer by Mary Renault

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann

Best Gay Historical Romance

923 books — 1,533 voters