Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox FordNeuromancer by William GibsonA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens1984 by George Orwell
Great First Lines
91 books — 85 voters

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichDave Barry's Book of Bad Songs by Dave BarryIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonBlur by Bill KovachAll Those Mornings . . . At the Post by Shirley Povich
Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
4,082 books — 1,472 voters
Life on Mars by Tracy K. SmithComplete Poems by Marianne MooreThomas and Beulah by Rita DoveAmerican Primitive by Mary OliverThe Tradition by Jericho Brown
Pulitzer Winners: Poetry
102 books — 53 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleDo You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? by David RutledgeTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Southern Books
816 books — 738 voters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingRising Sun by Michael CrichtonThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,132 books — 10,110 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Great Books of Southern Fiction
379 books — 441 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Night Bookmobile by Audrey NiffeneggerNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassIt's a Book by Lane SmithFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Stories For Book Lovers
8,331 books — 8,212 voters
Emergence by David R. PalmerSphere by Michael CrichtonCollege Information Literacy Efforts Benchmarks by Primary Research Group StaffThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayRising Sun by Michael Crichton
Books I wish I had never read
1,279 books — 1,328 voters

Snow Crash by Neal StephensonNeuromancer by William Gibson
Reddit Underrated Sci Fi List
93 books — 90 voters
The Water Knife by Paolo BacigalupiFed, White, and Blue by Simon Majumdar
Silverware, Too
126 books — 17 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Reddit 100 Favourite Sci-Fi Books
103 books — 41 voters
Sonny's Blues by James BaldwinThe Mangler by Stephen        King
Single Short Story
790 books — 310 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleDo You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? by David RutledgeTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Southern Literature
1,331 books — 2,573 voters
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? by David RutledgeBlur by Bill KovachThe Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. RamachandranNeverwhere by Neil GaimanWhat If? by Randall Munroe
Who What Why When Where How
2,323 books — 220 voters

Emergence by David R. PalmerSphere by Michael CrichtonThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayRising Sun by Michael CrichtonAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Books I Wish I Hadn't Experienced
205 books — 27 voters

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraChéri and The Last of Chéri by ColetteAfter Every War by Eavan BolandOther Worlds Other Seas by Darko Suvin
Favorite Translated Literature
1,029 books — 494 voters
King Lear by William ShakespeareThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriHamlet by William Shakespeare
The Guardian Top 100 books of all time
100 books — 166 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerLower Ed by Tressie McMillan CottomBlues for Mister Charlie by James BaldwinA Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
Books by Black Authors
907 books — 364 voters
Fed, White, and Blue by Simon Majumdar
Travel Published in Decade: 2010s
57 books — 56 voters