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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiCyrano de Bergerac by Edmond RostandBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieFlaubert's Parrot by Julian BarnesThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Perfo... by Peter Weiss
Books Named for Authors
76 books — 26 voters
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Iliad by HomerPère Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Best 10 Books That You've Read
822 books — 468 voters

The Songlines by Bruce ChatwinEndurance by Alfred LansingBlue Highways by William Least Heat-MoonParis to the Moon by Adam GopnikIn Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Favorite Travel Books
2,016 books — 3,938 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
Authors With Only One Novel
133 books — 120 voters

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
How DID They Become Classics?
113 books — 174 voters
Salonica, City of Ghosts by Mark MazowerA History of Venice by John Julius NorwichAthens by Christian MeierParis by Johannes WillmsAmsterdam by Geert Mak
Histories of Cities
260 books — 105 voters

The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerHamlet by William ShakespeareParadise Lost by John MiltonLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Great Books: No Novels Need Apply
454 books — 131 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainLife on the Mississippi by Mark TwainRoughing It by Mark TwainThe Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain
Best of Mark Twain
44 books — 104 voters

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert BurtonThe Complete Essays by Michel de MontaigneThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Starship Book List
2,763 books — 167 voters
Midnight in Sicily by Peter RobbThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaItalian Journey by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Normans in Sicily by John Julius NorwichTo Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
Mediterranean Melting Pot (II): Sicily
132 books — 51 voters

The Republic by PlatoMetamorphoses by OvidThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert BurtonRedburn by Herman Melville
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
747 books — 1,812 voters
Till We Have Faces by C.S. LewisThe King Must Die by Mary RenaultThe Magus by John FowlesUlysses by James JoyceLes Mouches by Jean-Paul Sartre
Books with Greek mythology references
509 books — 696 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughJohnny Tremain by Esther ForbesFounding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisPaul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
Best Books About The American Revolution
226 books — 221 voters
The Iliad by Homer
The Olympic Games
266 books — 126 voters

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott by Walter ScottThe Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel PepysLondon Journal, 1762 - 1763 by James BoswellThe Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1 by Anaïs NinVoyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
The Assassin's Cloak: Diaries and Journals
228 books — 59 voters
The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Walter ScottThe Unicorn Rampant by Nigel TranterPicturesque Notes on Edinburgh by Robert Louis StevensonThe Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
Books set in Edinburgh
134 books — 69 voters

Petersburg by Andrei BelyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
Books set in St Petersburg
35 books — 30 voters
The Shock of Recognition by Edmund WilsonGood Poems for Hard Times by Garrison KeillorDangerous Visions by Harlan EllisonZen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul RepsThe Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in th... by Francis Turner Palgrave
Anthologies
317 books — 174 voters

The Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusThe Rule of Saint Benedict by Benedict of NursiaCity of God by Augustine of Hippo
The Best Books of the 5th Century
38 books — 63 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Jungle by Upton SinclairChicago Poems by Carl SandburgSister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Books Set in Chicago
597 books — 328 voters

1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyV for Vendetta by Alan MooreWatchmen by Alan Moore
Dystopia!
1,217 books — 2,761 voters
Winter in the Blood by James WelchSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegLight in August by William FaulknerThe Winter's Tale by William ShakespeareEmpire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Seasons and Weather in Titles
1,505 books — 150 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoOriginal Sin by P.D. JamesThe spire, William Golding by Steve EddyHawksmoor by Peter AckroydThe Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
Architecture in Fiction
77 books — 69 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPersuasion by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
100 Historical Romances To Read Before You Die
1,342 books — 1,580 voters

Collected Stories by Gabriel García MárquezHawkfall and Other Stories by George Mackay BrownThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieLove and Other Stories by Tibor DéryTen Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
Best Contemporary Short Fiction
80 books — 68 voters
The Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienThe Iliad by HomerThe Histories by HerodotusThe Saga of the Volsungs by Anonymous
Amazons, Valkyries, and Warrior Women
692 books — 524 voters

Old New York by Edith WhartonThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOld Mr. Flood by Joseph Mitchell
Tales of New York City
1,500 books — 1,212 voters
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithGaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersThe Lincoln Lawyer by Michael ConnellyListening Woman by Tony Hillerman
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,194 books — 2,289 voters