To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Best (Classic) Books for Teens
142 books — 301 voters
The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Republic by PlatoThe Histories by Herodotus
Classical World Reading List
115 books — 68 voters

The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Republic by PlatoHonor and Polygamy by Omar Farhad
Politics
486 books — 469 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,295 books — 4,466 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Light of Eternal Spring by Angel Di ZhangThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Magic Realism
162 books — 319 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
667 books — 358 voters
Histoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline RéageLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceDelta of Venus by Anaïs NinLolita by Vladimir NabokovFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Best Erotic Classics
33 books — 44 voters

The Price of Salt by Claire  MorganOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallAnnie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Lesbian novels from before 1990
249 books — 110 voters
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
280 books — 135 voters