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The Life of Langston Hughes by Arnold RampersadThe Life of Langston Hughes by Arnold RampersadTalking at the Gates by James CampbellHome And Exile by Chinua AchebeDust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Author Biographies and Memoirs
425 books — 124 voters
Mythology by Edith HamiltonD'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'AulaireThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellBeowulf by UnknownD'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
Best Books About Mythology
1,390 books — 2,213 voters

The Collected Poems by Langston HughesLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Best Poetry Books
2,970 books — 2,411 voters
Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos KazantzakisThe End of Faith by Sam Harris
Books I Am Going to Hell For Reading
380 books — 411 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,171 books — 67,713 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Young Adult Books
13,053 books — 80,109 voters

Black Hawk Down by Mark BowdenThe Art of War by Sun TzuFlyboys by James D. BradleyJarhead by Anthony Swofford
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,104 books — 2,336 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,294 books — 15,485 voters

The Mirror and the Lamp by M.H. AbramsFive Great English Romantic Poets by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Romantic Poets
114 books — 40 voters
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
"The {_______} Who " Titles
970 books — 129 voters

Cane by Jean Toomer
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,327 books — 119,038 voters
1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 991 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Awakening by Kate ChopinJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Feminist Fiction
1,500 books — 2,666 voters
Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'ConnorClassic Tales of Brer Rabbit by David BorgenichtPlays, 1957-1980 by Tennessee WilliamsThe Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark TwainTar Baby by Toni Morrison
Best Southern Literature
1,340 books — 2,573 voters

The Boondocks by Aaron McGruderYour Spirits Walk Beside Us by Barbara Dianne SavageFacing Mount Kenya by Jomo KenyattaMine Boy by Peter AbrahamsMississippi to Africa by Melvin J. Collier
Books by Black Authors
907 books — 365 voters
1Q84 #2 by Haruki MurakamiArguably by Christopher HitchensIn the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Deferred Gratification: 2011's Most Eagerly Awaited New Books
126 books — 378 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Stranger by Albert CamusFacing Mount Kenya by Jomo KenyattaThe Dark Child by Camara Laye
Best by African Authors
407 books — 221 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
YA Dystopia Novels
1,771 books — 11,224 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best Books Ever
75,375 books — 279,928 voters
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Memoirs by Women
2,961 books — 2,989 voters