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On Becoming a Person by Carl R. RogersThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronAmerican Nations by Colin WoodardHow I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
10,489 books — 5,729 voters
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieThe Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. SayersThe Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline GrahamA Great Deliverance by Elizabeth GeorgeWicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet
English Village Mysteries
200 books — 66 voters

Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. SayersAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Body in the Library by Agatha ChristieThe Franchise Affair by Josephine TeyThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Country House Mystery
132 books — 35 voters
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingThe Light in the Forest by Conrad RichterThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Books for thirteen-year-old children
777 books — 346 voters

Five Children and It by E. NesbitThe Borrowers by Mary NortonThe Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor CameronWe Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur RansomeThe Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
Best Read-Aloud Bedtime Stories Ages 6-8 (no pictures)
75 books — 32 voters
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorGone-Away Lake by Elizabeth EnrightTouch Not the Cat by Mary StewartA Civil Contract by Georgette HeyerThe Complete Saki by Saki
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,847 books — 267 voters

Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. SayersThe Cliffs of Night by Beatrice BrandonPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenBruno, Chief of Police by Martin WalkerThe Maggie B. by Irene Haas
Books I Kind of Wanted to Snuggle After Reading
975 books — 1,226 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenStrong Poison by Dorothy L. SayersMary Poppins by P.L. TraversNaked in Death by J.D. RobbThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Best Female Lead Characters
4,827 books — 5,829 voters

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleSuspect by Robert CraisOld Yeller by Fred GipsonThe Search by Nora RobertsThe Cliffs of Night by Beatrice Brandon
Great "Dog" Books
1,248 books — 1,933 voters
The Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Man from Snowy River by Elyne MitchellThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,132 books — 10,110 voters

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. EliotAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisA Red-Rose Chain by Seanan McGuirePuss in Boots by Charles Perrault
Great Cat Books
1,581 books — 953 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesWatership Down by Richard AdamsVenetia by Georgette Heyer
The Most Comforting Books (The Literary Version of Bread Pudding)
1,288 books — 927 voters

Still Life by Louise PennyAmerican Nations by Colin WoodardBaltimore Blues by Laura LippmanSwallows and Amazons by Arthur RansomeBy Its Cover by Donna Leon
Best Books to Make into a PBS Series
457 books — 376 voters
The Daughter of Time by Josephine TeyThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleySuperfluous Women by Carola DunnThe Vanishing Man by Charles FinchThe Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig
Best Historical Mystery
1,992 books — 4,478 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,819 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriLes Misérables by Victor HugoDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Aeneid by VirgilDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,810 voters

Cosmos by Carl SaganThe Descent of Woman by Elaine MorganReading the Landscape of Europe by May Theilgaard WattsThe Alphabet Versus the Goddess by Leonard ShlainThe Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,830 books — 3,587 voters
Let the People Pick the President by Jesse WegmanOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderThe Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-WellsFantasyland by Kurt AndersenAmerican Nations by Colin Woodard
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
518 books — 270 voters

Too Many Husbands by Elise TitleHidden Riches by Nora RobertsIt Must Have Been The Mistletoe by Nikki BenjaminThe Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren WilligMrs. Scrooge by Barbara Bretton
Great Holiday Romance Reads
810 books — 1,118 voters
The Talisman Ring by Georgette HeyerMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieNo Exit by Taylor AdamsTrapped by Michael NorthropKiller View by Ridley Pearson
Snowbound/Snow Storms
124 books — 16 voters

Hidden Riches by Nora RobertsNaked in Death by J.D. RobbChasing Fire by Nora RobertsHoliday in Death by J.D. RobbBorn in Fire by Nora Roberts
Best Nora Roberts Novels
277 books — 1,305 voters
The Cliffs of Night by Beatrice BrandonNaked in Death by J.D. RobbBorn in Fire by Nora RobertsCaptivated by Nora RobertsApprentice in Death by J.D. Robb
Romance in Ireland (and/or) Irish Heroes and Heroines
635 books — 421 voters

Storm Front by Jim ButcherBlacklist by Sara ParetskyPassport's Guide to Ethnic Chicago by Rich LindbergExit Strategy by Steve HamiltonFirst Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Books Set in Chicago
590 books — 327 voters
Port Mortuary by Patricia CornwellThe Wolf in Winter by John ConnollyDead Wrong by Mariah StewartNo Good Deeds by Laura LippmanSunburn by Laura Lippman
Books Set in Delaware
218 books — 30 voters

Year One by Nora RobertsNever Go Back by Lee ChildThe Obsession by Nora RobertsTaming Natasha by Nora RobertsTroublemaker by Linda Howard
West Virginia
210 books — 90 voters
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Great Brain by John D. FitzgeraldTo Tame The Hunter by Stephanie JamesCrazy Hot by Tara JanzenDark Fire by Elizabeth Lowell
Books Set in Utah
292 books — 125 voters

The Awakening by Patricia CoughlinWithout Price by Dee HolmesThe Ghost and the Dead Man's Library by Alice KimberlyThe Last Great Affair by Kristine RolofsonSome Like It Hot by Patricia Coughlin
Books Set in Rhode Island
232 books — 73 voters
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. SayersThe Daughter of Time by Josephine TeyStill Life by Louise PennyThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónA Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
Best Literary Mysteries
2,511 books — 4,492 voters

An Infamous Army by Georgette HeyerCatch-22 by Joseph HellerGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
Best War Novels
1,657 books — 1,376 voters
Illusion Town by Jayne CastleMr. Perfect by Linda HowardThe Cliffs of Night by Beatrice BrandonFamily Man by Jayne Ann KrentzKiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Favourite Romances with Pets
346 books — 168 voters