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The Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Best Feminist Books
2,812 books — 3,868 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Mental Illness and Self-Harm Books
160 books — 158 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Reading About Psychiatric Wards
52 books — 102 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,752 books — 6,906 voters

Candide by Voltaire
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters
Macbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes by Lazarillo de TormesRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 545 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 354 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.1984 by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,878 books — 49,825 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Road by Cormac McCarthyExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,375 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,897 books — 18,609 voters
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingTerrier by Tamora PierceUglies by Scott WesterfeldHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
3,095 books — 10,085 voters

Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAlanna by Tamora PierceThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
What Book Would You Like To Live In?
8,766 books — 8,986 voters
Alanna by Tamora Pierce
Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels
4,786 books — 19,185 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,702 books — 13,225 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Historical Fiction
7,904 books — 26,304 voters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingCoraline by Neil GaimanThe Witches by Roald DahlMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Best Books With Witches
1,801 books — 2,427 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukInvisible Monsters by Chuck PalahniukChoke by Chuck PalahniukRant by Chuck PalahniukDamned by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Chuck Palahniuk Books
26 books — 384 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books Ever
78,298 books — 291,886 voters
Youth in Revolt by C.D. PayneB is for Bad Poetry by Pamela August RussellAngus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise RennisonMy Heart Is an Idiot by Davy RothbartAll My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen
A list of largely pointless books by unknown authors
377 books — 351 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiThe BFG by Roald DahlThe Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan PoeFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
I'm glad someone made me read this book
11,270 books — 10,947 voters