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Emma by Jane AustenMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarPossession by A.S. ByattJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Great Women Authors
1,207 books — 333 voters
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarBonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Europe Minus Men and English
854 books — 226 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneThe Tempest by William ShakespeareA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesSarum by Edward RutherfurdPossession by A.S. Byatt
Best Historical Fiction
7,447 books — 25,642 voters

Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
463 books — 1,590 voters
The Vampire Lestat by Anne RiceMemnoch the Devil by Anne RiceThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Vampire books...
541 books — 676 voters

Mansfield Park by Jane AustenStardust by Neil GaimanTo Have and Have Not by Ernest HemingwayThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamChocolat by Joanne Harris
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,099 voters
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
15,055 books — 16,726 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,372 voters
The Complete Works by William ShakespeareLolita by Vladimir NabokovAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Best Books Ever
76,789 books — 285,716 voters

The Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBlood Canticle by Anne RiceKushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey
Disappointing Books
2,731 books — 4,600 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
3,075 books — 9,937 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Vampire Lestat by Anne RiceVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,447 books — 8,514 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteThe Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
Best Arthurian Fiction
477 books — 1,445 voters

Selected Poems by Lord ByronFour Quartets by T.S. Eliot
Best Poetry Books
2,996 books — 2,447 voters
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,872 voters

Tigana by Guy Gavriel KayA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinKushiel's Dart by Jacqueline CareyThe Belgariad Boxed Set by David Eddings
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,243 books — 25,918 voters
Villette by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,881 voters

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott FitzgeraldUlysses by James JoyceThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,787 voters
Blindness by José SaramagoPossession by A.S. Byatt
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,137 books — 3,678 voters