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I'm glad someone made me read this book
The book club, the high school teacher or college professor, the parent, the extremely bossy friend... someone pushed these books on you, and you were unexpectedly pleased.
Tags: classics, favorites, school, and unexpected

1
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee 137 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
2
The Giver
The Giver
by Lois Lowry 78 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
3
Twilight
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer 62 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
4
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 55 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
5
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen 50 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
6
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë 46 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
7
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger 41 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
8
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury 40 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
9
The Outsiders
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton 40 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
10
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding 40 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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1984
1984
by George Orwell 40 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood 33 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Brave New World
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley 31 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator) 30 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini 30 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J.K. Rowling 29 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
17
Night
Night
by Elie Wiesel 27 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
18
My Sister's Keeper
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult 25 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
19
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins 22 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
20
The Stranger
The Stranger
by Albert Camus, Matthew Ward (Translator) 22 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
21
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author) 21 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
22
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon 21 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
23
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 21 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
24
Hamlet
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews (Editor) 21 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
25
Siddhartha
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse 20 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Macbeth
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare 20 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
27
The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown 19 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
28
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank 19 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
29
The Shack
The Shack
by William P. Young 14 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
31
The Westing Game
The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
32
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Anonymous, Seamus Heaney (Translator) 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
33
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
34
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne 12 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
35
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London 12 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
36
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe 11 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
37
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes 11 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
38
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway 11 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
39
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë 11 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
40
Invisible Man
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
41
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
42
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
43
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon (translator) 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
44
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translator) 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
45
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
47
Watership Down
Watership Down
by Richard Adams 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
48
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
49
The Mists of Avalon
The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
50
My Antonia
My Antonia
by Willa Cather 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
51
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by Daniel Quinn 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
52
Just Listen
Just Listen
by Sarah Dessen (Goodreads author) 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
53
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
by Judy Blume 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
54
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
by George Orwell 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
55
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
56
The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
57
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
58
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa (Translator) 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
59
Pygmalion
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
60
Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
by Laura Hillenbrand 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
61
Eragon
Eragon
by Christopher Paolini 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
62
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, ...
by Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz (Illustrator) 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
63
Walk Two Moons
Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
64
Shogun
Shogun
by James Clavell 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
65
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean M. Auel 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
66
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
67
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
69
Master and Commander
Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
70
Bleak House
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
71
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle (Editor) 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
72
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
73
The Name of the Rose: Including Postscript
The Name of the Rose: Including Postscript
by Umberto Eco, William Weaver (Translator) 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
74
The History of Love
The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
75
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
75
Interview With the Vampire
Interview With the Vampire
by Anne Rice 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
77
The House of the Scorpion
The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
78
Emma
Emma
by Jane Austen 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
78
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
80
The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat
by Anne Rice 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
81
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
82
The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game
by Richard Connell 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
83
The Alchemist
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
84
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
85
Perfecting Ourselves: Coordinating Body, Mind and Spirit
Perfecting Ourselves: Coordinating Body, Mind a...
by Aaron Hoopes (Goodreads author) 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
86
Holy Quran
Holy Quran
by Allah 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
87
The Killer Angels
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
88
We
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
89
Mila 18
Mila 18
by Leon Uris 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
90
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
91
Exodus
Exodus
by Leon Uris 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
92
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
93
Plain Truth
Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
93
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
95
Atonement
Atonement
by Ian McEwan 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
96
The Zahir
The Zahir
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
96
Austerlitz
Austerlitz
by W.G. Sebald, Anthea Bell (Translator) 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
98
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
98
Blindness
Blindness
by José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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comments (showing 1-9 of 9) (9 new)

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message 1: by Rachel (new)

2097698 Technically, I can't vote, because no one has ever MADE me read anything...other than Tw-ehem (thanks a bunch, cousin.) And I will never vote Tw-ehem.


message 2: by Daniel (new)

Nophoto-u-25x33 only know a few


message 3: by Daniel (new)

Nophoto-u-25x33 Rachel wrote: "Technically, I can't vote, because no one has ever MADE me read anything...other than Tw-ehem (thanks a bunch, cousin.) And I will never vote Tw-ehem. "
hi




message 4: by Wealhtheow (new)

76129 Yeah, this is a hard list to vote on. I can't vote for most of the books I absolutely love, because I wasn't forced to read them.


message 5: by Selma (new)

Nophoto-u-25x33 i vote 100 times for twilight, best fantasy book ever


message 6: by Peter (new)

2087878 I guess I'm in the minority, but I'd probably never have read most of my favourites were it not for the required reading at uni...


message 7: by Minh-Anh (new)

2697274 I'm never really FORCED to read anything, and I don't usually take anyone's reccommendations (even my best friend's), but when I DO take them, most of the time, I like the book.


message 8: by Mihai (new)

2635568 Well, giving someone a book as a gift is usually a good way to get them to read it...


message 9: by Minh-Anh (new)

2697274 Yeah, someone gave me Inkheart, and it was really good!


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