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The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMy Ántonia by Willa CatherWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Jungle by Upton SinclairO Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,089 books — 1,829 voters
Beowulf by UnknownSir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain PoetThe Wanderer by Michael Alexander, EditorThe Saga of the Volsungs by AnonymousThe Elder Edda by Unknown
Penguin Legends from the Ancient North
5 books — 6 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,100 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

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis CarrollOliver Twist by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Odyssey by Homer
Penguin Clothbound Classics
110 books — 363 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Is It Just Me? Books You Disliked That Everyone Else Seems To Love
2,064 books — 2,686 voters

The Art of Spirited Away by Hayao MiyazakiThe Art 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...
12,233 books — 11,453 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsLord of the Flies by William GoldingFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
1,551 books — 551 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
2,379 books — 2,269 voters

The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Books I Regret Reading
2,313 books — 3,223 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Humorous Books
4,447 books — 8,299 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
1,333 books — 5,898 voters
King Lear by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
109 books — 1,248 voters

مئة عام من العزلة by Gabriel García Márquezمذكرات طبيبة by Nawal El Saadawiساق البامبو by Saud Alsanousi
كتب عربية تخطط قراءتها هذا الصيف 2014
47 books — 31 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKitchen by Banana YoshimotoSnow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Best Japanese Books
779 books — 3,259 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark1984 by George Orwell
Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain
400 books — 214 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books for the Modern Day Hippie, Bohemian, Free Spirit
440 books — 336 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
287 books — 976 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo CoelhoThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Fictional Mental Hospital Novels
272 books — 783 voters

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Best of Paulo Coelho
34 books — 825 voters
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Best Book Cover 2009
333 books — 2,838 voters

Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard ShawLady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Downton Abbey-esque Books
619 books — 1,020 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
1,907 books — 1,762 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
1,314 books — 1,735 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die
509 books — 1,061 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,440 books — 1,778 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 — 584 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!
1,240 books — 2,806 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!
1,219 books — 6,115 voters


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