Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Best Novels That Take Place in China
53rd out of 416 books — 1,100 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerBeowulf by UnknownThe Odyssey by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
World's Greatest Epics
23rd out of 204 books — 134 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton RaffelThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioInferno by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
15th out of 63 books — 355 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
6141st out of 76,940 books — 286,322 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
360th out of 747 books — 1,817 voters
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckEmpress Orchid by Anchee MinShanghai Girls by Lisa SeePeony in Love by Lisa See
Great Chinese Historical Fiction
31st out of 217 books — 274 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
5542nd out of 31,959 books — 121,323 voters
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckGenghis by Conn IgguldenThe Green Phoenix by Alice PoonEmpress Orchid by Anchee Min
History through Novels: Pre-1900s China
12th out of 83 books — 70 voters

Wild Swans by Jung ChangThe Color of Jadeite by Eric D. GoodmanMonkey by Wu Cheng'enThree Kingdoms by Luo GuanzhongDream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Best books to read about China
4th out of 173 books — 106 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The 800+ page Gorillaz
168th out of 459 books — 519 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Over a 1000 Pages
90th out of 234 books — 233 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
23rd out of 183 books — 58 voters

Wild Swans by Jung ChangThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Best Books About China
110th out of 747 books — 587 voters
The Art of War by Sun TzuTao Te Ching by Lao TzuDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinWild Swans by Jung ChangMonkey by Wu Cheng'en
Chinese Literature
66th out of 322 books — 151 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyHamlet by William Shakespeare
Classics of World Literature
86th out of 331 books — 50 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiShōgun by James Clavell
Best Books on Asia
142nd out of 998 books — 826 voters

A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann LiangSoul Mountain by Gao XingjianDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinRed Sorghum by Mo YanTales of Ming Courtesans by Alice Poon
Chinese Author Recommendations
13th out of 135 books — 16 voters
To Live by Yu HuaRed Sorghum by Mo YanWaiting by Ha JinEmpress Orchid by Anchee MinRaise the Red Lantern by Su Tong
Fiction from the Chinese Mainland
56th out of 132 books — 137 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Resurrection Chronicles by Mike MacCarthyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Complete Works by William Shakespeare
The Starship Book List
310th out of 2,765 books — 191 voters
The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me by Hong  Mei天龍八部 Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Jin Yong笑傲江湖 by Jin YongThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1 by Cao XueqinAn Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Chinese novel
6th out of 45 books — 9 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónPOENA DAMNI by Dimitris LyacosBlindness by José SaramagoThe Last Wish by Andrzej SapkowskiThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Translated Books Project
181st out of 585 books — 75 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1128th out of 1,184 books — 2,767 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Help by Kathryn StockettGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellCrossing Boundaries- When a Voyage Becomes so much More by Bernhard M Bierlich
Historical fiction worth reading
927th out of 1,275 books — 611 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Cozy Literature
30th out of 55 books — 1 voter
Leo on the Ascendant by Patricia WellesRed Wing's Early Neighborhood Grocery Stores & Meat Markets by Sharon M NelsonOperation SL by Norman DanielsThe Family Tower by Barbara WillardThe Omega Deception by Charles Robertson
Random Literary Mix 62
95th out of 100 books — 1 voter

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Huế  1968 by Mark BowdenThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
War has no winners
859th out of 1,142 books — 537 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Favorite World Fiction & Literature
466th out of 733 books — 434 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOutlander by Diana GabaldonMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction
1546th out of 2,539 books — 2,805 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Books You Need to Read to be Considered Well-Read
480th out of 721 books — 404 voters

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