Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAngle of Repose by Wallace StegnerDancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan DoigThe Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
Best Westerns
1,374 books — 1,497 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Best Books Set in New York City
378 books — 391 voters
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Best Philip Roth Books
32 books — 104 voters

Bossypants by Tina FeyThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenBeautiful Ruins by Jess WalterThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Audiobooks Ever
1,968 books — 2,836 voters

A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaFortune Smiles by Adam  JohnsonFates and Furies by Lauren GroffThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Kirkus Best Fiction of 2015
96 books — 47 voters
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Europa Edition Books
126 books — 140 voters

Cloud Atlas by David  MitchellCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
What we've read so far in...2015
9,713 books — 2,062 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
25 books — 838 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
770 books — 3,247 voters
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
2015 National Book Awards Longlist
40 books — 32 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteThe Bone Clocks by David  Mitchell
2015 Tournament of Books Short List
17 books — 159 voters

Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Power of One by Bryce CourtenayA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Fictitious Africa
546 books — 264 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckRebecca by Daphne du MaurierOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderMadeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
904 books — 1,255 voters

The Help by Kathryn StockettGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth SteinThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Smart Summer Reads
12,606 books — 10,485 voters
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Ultimate Backpacking Novels
470 books — 1,135 voters

The Bone People by Keri HulmeThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Best Literary Fiction
1,547 books — 1,328 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Indian Fiction Books
914 books — 2,421 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Blue Flower by Penelope FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2011: What the Over 35s Have Read So Far
1,801 books — 441 voters


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