Editors' Top Picks
The Collected Poems by Wallace StevensThe Waking by Theodore RoethkeThe Collected Poems by Sylvia PlathThe Wild Iris by Louise GlückComplete Poems by Marianne Moore
Pulitzer Winners: Poetry
15th out of 103 books — 54 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
New York Public Library Books of the Century pt 1
43rd out of 100 books — 7 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
2782nd out of 7,889 books — 49,803 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
411th out of 824 books — 1,148 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
1967th out of 3,023 books — 2,526 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Library of Resistance
120th out of 192 books — 68 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellNative Son by Richard WrightDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A Century of Reading: 1940s
57th out of 62 books — 11 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
NYPL 125 Books We Love for Adults
63rd out of 125 books — 8 voters

Accidentul by Mihail SebastianFemei by Mihail SebastianJournal 1935-1944 by Mihail SebastianLivada cu visini by Anton ChekhovMândrie și prejudecată by Jane Austen
Maurice Munteanu
47th out of 100 books — 1 voter
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Plague by Albert CamusGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsMisty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Best Books 1947
60th out of 66 books — 33 voters


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