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The Writer's Portable Mentor by Priscilla Long
Best Writing Reference
203 books — 166 voters
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela AckermanReading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Best Books on Writing
802 books — 1,333 voters

Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverThe Illustrated Man by Ray BradburyThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Collections of Short Stories
2,916 books — 2,068 voters
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovSelected Stories by Alice MunroDubliners by James JoyceNine Stories by J.D. SalingerThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Best Short Story Collections
1,600 books — 908 voters

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,898 books — 18,624 voters
The Dead by James Joyce
World's Greatest Novellas
733 books — 1,470 voters

Siddhartha by Hermann HesseTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books Ever
78,309 books — 291,945 voters
Atonement by Ian McEwanA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,833 books — 22,373 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleUlysses by James JoyceSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters