The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathRebecca by Daphne du MaurierAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Books Ever
75,832 books — 281,771 voters

When the Sirens Wailed by Noel StreatfeildA Vicarage Family by Noel Streatfeild
Best Children's Historical Fiction
825 books — 828 voters
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Best Young Adult Books
13,121 books — 80,162 voters

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,779 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
Best Arthurian Fiction
476 books — 1,442 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Epistolary Fiction
854 books — 844 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Books That Shaped Me...
440 books — 149 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottBlack Beauty by John DavageThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
My Favorite Childhood books
751 books — 400 voters

Regeneration by Pat BarkerBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksThe Eye in the Door by Pat BarkerThe War Poems by Siegfried SassoonThe Ghost Road by Pat Barker
World War One Literature
224 books — 357 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNumber the Stars by Lois LowryLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Endless Steppe by Esther HautzigRemembrance by Theresa Breslin
Best Children's Books Involving War
180 books — 70 voters

Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Crucible by Arthur MillerA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Teen Historical Novels
954 books — 1,318 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue TownsendThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankSo Much to Tell You by John Marsden
Best Diary Novels
169 books — 265 voters
Young Adult fiction by UK authors
408 books — 267 voters

Night by Elie WieselMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,064 voters
Daphne du Maurier Collection by Daphne du MaurierRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Books Set in Cornwall
177 books — 136 voters

I, Claudius by Robert GravesClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesPompeii by Robert   HarrisImperium by Robert   HarrisLustrum by Robert   Harris
Best Books About Ancient Rome
737 books — 1,081 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,857 books — 21,934 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,782 voters
1984 by George OrwellNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,733 books — 25,960 voters

Changing Places by David LodgeThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesStoner by John  Williams
Best Fiction Set in Academia
149 books — 153 voters
The Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Best Gay Fiction
2,658 books — 3,860 voters

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. TaylorBeware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn MeyerMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerThe Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Teen Historical Fiction
1,381 books — 3,085 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryI, Claudius by Robert GravesKatherine by Anya Seton
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,631 books — 3,556 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Red Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,414 books — 2,331 voters


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