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A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. RitzThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeReady Player One by Ernest Cline
Top 10 for the Reading Challengers
6,133 books — 4,745 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
100 books — 1,709 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
103 books — 1,240 voters
The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe House of Hades by Rick RiordanThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Mark of Athena by Rick RiordanThe Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Totally Amazing Books That Should Be Read By Everybody!
2,639 books — 1,163 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Plays Ever
856 books — 1,132 voters
The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Last Olympian by Rick RiordanThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick RiordanThe Sea of Monsters by Rick RiordanThe Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
Modern Adaptations of Greek Mythology
371 books — 545 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGood Omens by Terry Pratchett
Best Lighthearted Literature
622 books — 486 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
Best Play Ever
520 books — 456 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
416 books — 438 voters
Last Hunt by James Byron HugginsGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Big Bad by Brad HuestisJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Books I think are great
921 books — 415 voters

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerThe Crucible by Arthur MillerWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Best American Plays
250 books — 367 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareRebecca by Daphne du MaurierMacbeth by William ShakespeareDracula by Bram StokerEmma by Jane Austen
One Name as a Title
1,129 books — 201 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
The Best Shakespeare Plays
41 books — 171 voters
Angels in America by Tony KushnerAugust by Tracy LettsThe Pillowman by Martin McDonaghArcadia by Tom StoppardDoubt, a Parable by John Patrick Shanley
Best Plays Since 1990
204 books — 151 voters

The Odyssey by HomerHamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Iliad by HomerThe Aeneid by Virgil
Great Books: No Novels Need Apply
457 books — 123 voters
Beyond the Last Time by Noah TuyaHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Reads
331 books — 78 voters

Ophelia by Lisa M. KleinEyes Like Stars by Lisa MantchevSpeak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle GeorgeJuliet by Anne FortierThe Shakespeare Stealer by Gary L. Blackwood
Books based on Shakespeare
93 books — 76 voters
Macbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet, Prince of Denmark by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildePygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Best British and Irish Plays
134 books — 72 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Dutch House by Ann PatchettDear Edward by Ann NapolitanoThe Guest List by Lucy Foley
2020: What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far
733 books — 70 voters
IT'S OK TO CRY by Daniel HamelThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Family Tree by Steph MullinThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain Hashmi
2021: What books do I want to read most?
98 books — 60 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
100 Modernist Reads
101 books — 52 voters
Los Sangurimas by José de la CuadraHuasipungo by Jorge IcazaLas cruces sobre el agua by Joaquín Gallegos LaraPelea de gallos by María Fernanda AmpueroUn hombre muerto a puntapiés by Pablo Palacio
Ecuadorian Literature
320 books — 51 voters

The Midnight Library by Matt HaigEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
2021: What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far
870 books — 46 voters
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryWit by Margaret EdsonFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeHow I Learned to Drive by Paula VogelThe Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Plays Written by Women
174 books — 38 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareNoises Off by Michael FraynAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Plays Within Plays, Novels, and Other Works
41 books — 34 voters
The Let Them Theory by Mel RobbinsThe Wedding People by Alison EspachEverything Is Tuberculosis by John GreenAll the Sinners Bleed by S.A. CosbyIn a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
2025: What PEOPLE born BEFORE 1970 Have Read So Far
305 books — 27 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
263 books — 21 voters
Wicked by Gregory MaguireLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumWest Side Story by Irving ShulmanOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Books That Were Also Broadway Plays
96 books — 20 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareTwelfth Night by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The best of William Shakespeare
17 books — 17 voters
Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto BoalWhen Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre by Edwin WongActing Class by Milton KatselasTowards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy GrotowskiThe Stanislavsky Technique by Mel Gordon
So You Want to be an Actor
19 books — 13 voters

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