Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
9th out of 2,905 books — 2,049 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories
12th out of 1,760 books — 1,043 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
3041st out of 77,507 books — 289,413 voters
Dubliners by James JoyceNine Stories by J.D. SalingerThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Best Short Story Collections
13th out of 1,559 books — 861 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyA Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
1188th out of 11,985 books — 10,769 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
100 Best American Authors
58th out of 754 books — 616 voters

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Best of Hemingway
6th out of 26 books — 169 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann HesseLord of the Flies by William Golding
Nobel Laureates
59th out of 660 books — 569 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
2951st out of 15,735 books — 18,330 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
A Journey Through Literary America
29th out of 160 books — 227 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
1226th out of 7,889 books — 49,801 voters
Tenth of December by George SaundersThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot DíazInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriNine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James Joyce
Badass Short Story Collections (Or So I Hear)
32nd out of 464 books — 260 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.2 and Above
121st out of 908 books — 450 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradBlood River by Tim ButcherDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieLife on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Rivers
58th out of 914 books — 197 voters

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Illustrated Man by Ray BradburyThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonTales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
Best Fiction Short Stories
32nd out of 667 books — 386 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Collected Poems by Langston HughesThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Library of America Wish List
14th out of 86 books — 25 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Writers who committed suicide
79th out of 458 books — 287 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfUlysses by James JoyceThe Waste Land by T.S. EliotTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Modernist Literature
29th out of 188 books — 66 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
128th out of 182 books — 106 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayDoctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Nobel Prize in Literature Goodreads Group Shelf
220th out of 353 books — 108 voters

A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Book List from "How to Read Literature Like a Professor"
62nd out of 108 books — 31 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHamlet by William Shakespeare
Best Books From Before 1950
215th out of 543 books — 136 voters

U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
The Literate American
56th out of 99 books — 25 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. RowlingThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Popular Short Stories Books on Goodreads
136th out of 349 books — 38 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingTwilight by Stephenie MeyerCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Couldn't Put The Book Down
8613th out of 17,284 books — 17,418 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Harold Bloom's 278 Books You Should Have Read By Now
73rd out of 263 books — 21 voters
An American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserLife and Other Near-Death Experiences by Camille PagánThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry FieldingBread and Jam for Frances by Russell HobanGunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews
Books with Ratings from 30,000 - 40,000
263rd out of 523 books — 40 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Books I'd Teach
61st out of 112 books — 12 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusBlindness by José SaramagoThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
299th out of 381 books — 284 voters

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