Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun Takami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
130th out of 774 books — 3,250 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar KhayyámThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonShahnameh by Abolqasem FerdowsiAvicenna Canon of Medicine Volume 1 by Avicenna
Best Books of the 11th Century
9th out of 24 books — 112 voters

Stung with Love by SapphoThe Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de PizanThe Alexiad by Anna ComnenaThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonThe Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
Penguin Classics: Women in Translation
10th out of 33 books — 13 voters
DECEIT v. DECEIT by Vernon BaumrindThe Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana AlexievichIn Other Words by Jhumpa LahiriVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Translated Non-Fiction by Women Authors
25th out of 231 books — 37 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathA Woman in Berlin by AnonymousIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Women's Journals and Diaries in History
113th out of 470 books — 213 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Odyssey by HomerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Classics in Translation
52nd out of 101 books — 30 voters
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonThe Art of War by Sun TzuThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Histories by HerodotusThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Best pre-20th Century Non-Fiction
63rd out of 140 books — 25 voters

Sister Outsider by Audre LordeBig Freedia by Big FreediaNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassWild Swans by Jung ChangI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#ReadPOC: List of Nonfiction Books by Authors of Color
71st out of 420 books — 52 voters
The Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonThe World of the Shining Prince by Ivan MorrisThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Tale of Murasaki by Liza DalbyThe Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu
Women in Heian Japan
6th out of 14 books — 9 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëSecrets of Rose Briar Hall by Kelsey JamesWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
sad woman big house
30th out of 98 books — 29 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Arabian Nights by Anonymous
Asian Classics
59th out of 183 books — 58 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Women Around the World
389th out of 1,164 books — 435 voters
Beowulf by UnknownThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton RaffelThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Best Medieval Literature
70th out of 165 books — 134 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiSnow Country by Yasunari KawabataRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese Literature
158th out of 310 books — 388 voters
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuJapanese No Dramas by Royall  TylerThe Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki ShikibuThe Songs of the South by Qu YuanThe Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō
Foundational Asian Literature
6th out of 18 books — 2 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsNight by Elie WieselAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5451st out of 5,957 books — 6,502 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil GaimanThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Sleepy Titles
529th out of 1,003 books — 33 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Must Read Classics
1353rd out of 1,857 books — 4,679 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenShōgun by James ClavellNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiTokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Best Books About Japan
449th out of 517 books — 358 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonThe Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton WilderThe Bridges of Madison County by Robert James WallerThe Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Bridges
368th out of 431 books — 83 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas AdamsOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckIf You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe NumeroffLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Book titles that start with a two letter word
589th out of 738 books — 30 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryAnimal Farm by George OrwellAll Together Dead by Charlaine HarrisAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Good Books that Begin with A
598th out of 998 books — 85 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroI, Claudius by Robert GravesI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeI, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The First Person -- It's All About "I"
660th out of 721 books — 63 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
Books with time words in the title
354th out of 433 books — 23 voters
The Immigrant by Nery McMahonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
322nd out of 344 books — 69 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Books Written by Women Before 1960
505th out of 529 books — 103 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
2442nd out of 3,105 books — 3,057 voters

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