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
499th out of 32,407 books — 123,423 voters
The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwinالقرآن الكريم by اللهThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Most Influential Books
49th out of 1,489 books — 5,293 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
1766th out of 77,852 books — 290,486 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyHamlet by William ShakespeareOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
45th out of 100 books — 1,709 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Republic by PlatoMeditations by Marcus Aurelius
Best Books of the Ancient World
3rd out of 277 books — 294 voters
The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Last Olympian by Rick RiordanThe Odyssey by HomerThe Sea of Monsters by Rick RiordanThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Best Books About Mythology
53rd out of 1,401 books — 2,226 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonThe Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
249th out of 4,566 books — 26,610 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerBeowulf by UnknownThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriParadise Lost by John Milton
Best of Epic Poetry
7th out of 124 books — 203 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
37th out of 256 books — 934 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
5th out of 204 books — 135 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Penguin Classics
31st out of 595 books — 311 voters
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousNot Without My Daughter by Betty MahmoodyPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
Iran and Iraq, Ancient and Modern
2nd out of 483 books — 197 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
233rd out of 755 books — 1,829 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Iliad by HomerBeowulf by UnknownThe Arabian Nights by Anonymous
Greatest Ancient Epics
2nd out of 97 books — 49 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneLord of the Flies by William GoldingBeowulf by UnknownGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
76th out of 464 books — 1,589 voters
Beowulf by UnknownThe Odyssey by HomerThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Iliad by HomerAesop’s Fables by Aesop
Mythology/Folklore
15th out of 579 books — 218 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Art of War by Sun TzuAesop’s Fables by Aesop
Books BCE
3rd out of 122 books — 30 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
127th out of 3,032 books — 2,561 voters

1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHamlet by William ShakespeareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Guardian Top 100 books of all time
45th out of 102 books — 168 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Odyssey by Homer1984 by George OrwellThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
24th out of 182 books — 106 voters

City of Ashes by Cassandra ClareHush, Hush by Becca FitzpatrickClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareCity of Glass by Cassandra ClareMarked by P.C. Cast
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
1909th out of 32,448 books — 69,710 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyIt by Stephen  KingDracula by Bram Stoker’Salem’s Lot by Stephen  KingJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Best Monster Books!
39th out of 574 books — 520 voters

ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa AshourThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAzazil by Youssef ZiedanThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Middle East Fiction
38th out of 437 books — 479 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë1984 by George OrwellThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Classics Library
151st out of 635 books — 523 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Books That Deserve a Higher Rating (Avg Rating < 4)
30th out of 737 books — 255 voters
The Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Odyssey by HomerThe Histories by HerodotusThe Aeneid by Virgil
Books Prior to the 4th Century
2nd out of 111 books — 18 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë1984 by George OrwellLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Literature
105th out of 509 books — 632 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Around the World in 100 Books
149th out of 1,325 books — 708 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
175th out of 1,086 books — 623 voters

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