To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
16,304 books — 19,390 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Amazon's 100 books to read in a lifetime
102 books — 101 voters

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Most emotional books
907 books — 1,037 voters

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganNight by Elie Wiesel
History as Literature
757 books — 672 voters

Outliers by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Radiolab Suggested Readings
183 books — 304 voters
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Best American History Books
2,346 books — 3,155 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodPossession by A.S. Byatt
Booker Prize Winners
66 books — 2,015 voters
The Man from Beijing by Henning MankellFaithful Place by Tana FrenchThe Return by Roberto BolañoAll That Follows by Jim Crace
Can't Wait Books of 2010
1,224 books — 10,116 voters

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeCyrano de Bergerac by Edmond RostandEquus by Peter ShafferA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Best Play Ever
524 books — 461 voters
The White Hotel by D.M. ThomasCloud Atlas by David  Mitchell
Most Difficult Novels
601 books — 2,066 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryKristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Best Historical Fiction
8,397 books — 27,567 voters
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe White Hotel by D.M. ThomasThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroCloud Atlas by David  Mitchell
Best British and Irish Literature
1,186 books — 1,119 voters

Winter's Tale by Mark HelprinDreamland by Kevin BakerWickett's Remedy by Myla GoldbergA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithThe Alienist by Caleb Carr
Tales of New York City
1,769 books — 1,354 voters
The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook by Good HousekeepingThe America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen
Best Cookbooks
1,488 books — 1,175 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
Best Philosophical Literature
1,238 books — 2,900 voters
Old Yeller by Fred GipsonJulie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Best Animal-Themed Books
619 books — 496 voters

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
What Book Got You Hooked?
4,413 books — 11,071 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,535 books — 8,276 voters

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom RobbinsWinter's Tale by Mark HelprinThe Milagro Beanfield War by John     NicholsLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,397 books — 4,738 voters

The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker ConwayPentimento by Lillian HellmanTruth & Beauty by Ann PatchettAutobiography of a Face by Lucy GrealyLying by Lauren Slater
Memoirs by Women
3,516 books — 4,120 voters

What Is the What by Dave EggersHaunted by Chuck PalahniukThe Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise ErdrichStill Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Best Book Cover Art
12,487 books — 7,125 voters

The Complete Poems 1927-1979 by Elizabeth BishopThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonThe Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley HopkinsCollected Poems, Prose, & Plays by Robert FrostOdes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda
Best Poetry Books
3,120 books — 2,860 voters
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Books that Made You Cry!
3,370 books — 8,151 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegAn Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. JamesThe Alienist by Caleb CarrOne Good Turn by Kate AtkinsonCase Histories by Kate Atkinson
Best Literary Mysteries
2,727 books — 5,284 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesBel Canto by Ann PatchettA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best for Book Clubs
15,753 books — 20,589 voters


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