The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMy Ántonia by Willa CatherWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Jungle by Upton SinclairO Pioneers! by Willa Cather
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great American Novel
671 books — 1,092 voters
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Wreath by Sigrid UndsetLeaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose by Walt WhitmanAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Penguin Drop Caps
26 books — 70 voters

The Art of Spirited Away by Hayao MiyazakiArt of Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao MiyazakiThe Art of Ponyo by Hayao MiyazakiThe Art of My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki
Top Animation Art/Making Books
234 books — 32 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Iliad by Homer
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,424 books — 10,199 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Foreign Lands
2,353 books — 2,193 voters

The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Books I Regret Reading
2,294 books — 3,225 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Humorous Books
4,336 books — 7,930 voters

1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,842 voters
King Lear by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
103 books — 1,239 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Most influential books under 100 pages
251 books — 924 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo CoelhoThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Fictional Mental Hospital Novels
259 books — 770 voters

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Best of Paulo Coelho
31 books — 820 voters
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Best Book Cover 2009
333 books — 2,841 voters

Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard ShawLady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Downton Abbey-esque Books
602 books — 998 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
I Saw the Movie & Read the Book
1,921 books — 1,760 voters

1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingAnimal Farm by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Darkest Books of All Time
1,302 books — 1,719 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,360 books — 1,779 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Best Antiheroes
701 books — 585 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William Golding
Dystopia!
1,219 books — 2,748 voters
Schindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyThe Shining by Stephen  KingThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerJaws by Peter BenchleyThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,221 books — 6,120 voters


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