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Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonRegeneration by Pat Barker
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,140 books — 3,669 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanSir Gawain and the Green Knight by UnknownThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioHow the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
Best Middle Ages Books
1,208 books — 1,681 voters

The Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettSticks and Scones by Diane Mott DavidsonMoby-Duck by Donovan Hohn
Titlemania I: Puns in Titles
444 books — 106 voters
The First Eagle by Tony HillermanThe Greatest Generation by Tom BrokawTrent's Last Case by E.C. BentleyLast Train to Paradise by Les Standiford1939 by Anne de Courcy
The [Superlative] [Noun]
459 books — 36 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe American Plague by Molly Caldwell CrosbyTyphoid Mary by Anthony BourdainFever Season by Jeanette Keith
History of Medicine
351 books — 157 voters
Guardians of the Lights by Elinor DewireMurder at Five Finger Light by Sue Henry
Lighthouses
446 books — 152 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainSister Carrie by Theodore DreiserHard Time by Sara ParetskyCrossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Novels of the American Midwest
333 books — 158 voters
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieA Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha ChristieThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerDouble Indemnity by James M. CainRandom Harvest by James Hilton
Novels about Business People
74 books — 25 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueLandscape Turned Red by Stephen W. SearsGods and Generals by Jeff ShaaraMy Cave Life in Vicksburg by Mary Ann Webster Loughborough
Major Battles in History and Fiction
232 books — 80 voters
Zelda by Nancy MilfordThe Lives of Beryl Markham by Errol TrzebinskiO'Neill by Arthur Gelb
Best Biographies
1,644 books — 2,925 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettThe Dead by James Joyce
Great Short Short Books
574 books — 509 voters
The French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen
What we've read so far in 2013...
8,049 books — 2,635 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Dead by James JoyceThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 925 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe House of Silk by Anthony HorowitzLong Time Gone by J.A. JanceMy Senator and Me by Edward M. Kennedy
What we've read so far in 2012...
5,564 books — 768 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Waste Land by T.S. EliotBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy ParkerOnly Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen
I am '20s, hear me roar!
483 books — 245 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Roaring Twenties
18 books — 24 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James Joyce
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 363 voters
She Died a Lady by Carter DicksonThe Dark Place by Aaron ElkinsBloodhounds by Peter LoveseyThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMaigret and the Man on the Boulevard by Georges Simenon
2012: The Over 35s favourite books of 2012
787 books — 246 voters

Must you go? by Antonia FraserDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellGood-Bye to All That by Robert GravesShakespeare by Harold BloomJohn Steinbeck, Writer by Jackson J. Benson
Literary biographies
475 books — 94 voters
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtryThe First Eagle by Tony HillermanThe Last Detective by Robert Crais
A Position of One's Own: Ordinal Numbers: First, Second... Last
753 books — 71 voters

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James BoswellMary Queen of Scots by Antonia FraserThe Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel PepysTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinEleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
Truly Massive Biography, Real or Imagined
263 books — 39 voters
Past Imperfect by Mark C. CarnesThe Year of Decision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto
My Odd-Ball Books List
323 books — 42 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Crucible by Arthur MillerA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best Play Ever
520 books — 456 voters
Letters to His Children by Theodore RooseveltThe Man Who Forgot How To Read by Howard EngelQ's Legacy by Helene HanffThe Devil's Rooming House by M. William PhelpsRoads by Larry McMurtry
The Last 10 Nonfiction Books I Read
2,980 books — 1,126 voters

The Snowman by Jo NesbøThe French Powder Mystery by Ellery QueenWe Is Got Him by Carrie HagenBloodhounds by Peter LoveseyRegeneration by Pat Barker
The Top of the Pile
44 books — 19 voters
Since Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
256 books — 24 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Must Read Classics
1,851 books — 4,614 voters
And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieEye of the Needle by Ken FollettThe Black Echo by Michael ConnellyIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Thrillers
4,526 books — 5,485 voters

The Common Reader by Virginia WoolfI Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
553 books — 247 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Most Unique Female Characters
1,137 books — 925 voters