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The Birthday Boys by Beryl BainbridgeMrs. Chippy's Last Expedition by Caroline AlexanderThe Survival Methods and Mating Rituals of Men and Marine Mam... by Chris KenryDead Men by Richard Pierce
All Things Antarctic
65 books — 25 voters
A Kestrel For A Knave by Barry HinesSaturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan SillitoeThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkBilly Liar by Keith WaterhouseThe Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke
Classic Film Adaptations: The 1960s
174 books — 39 voters

The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenCandide and Other Stories by VoltaireBartleby the Scrivener & Other Stories by Herman MelvilleThe Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullersMetamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Included Stories as Titles
215 books — 16 voters
Scepticism Inc. by Bo FowlerNow We Have Your Attention by Jack ShenkerThe Sherlockian by Graham MooreHow Should a Person Be? by Sheila HetiParadox by Jim Al-Khalili
Cover Art Punctuation
90 books — 14 voters

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin by David NobbsAdolf Hitler by Spike MilliganReady to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil BartlettThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeWhen the Sky Fell In Search of Atlantis by Rand Flem Ath
Falling and Felling
210 books — 48 voters
The Club by Robert RobinsonWaterdrops by John Lucas
Just one rating
598 books — 57 voters

Dead Poets Society by N.H. KleinbaumThe Mile High Club by Kinky FriedmanThe Forensic Records Society by Magnus MillsFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Runagates Club by John Buchan
Clubs & Societies
289 books — 40 voters
May Week Was in June by Clive James
Oxbridge Memoirs
26 books — 9 voters

The Cider House Rules by John IrvingPorterhouse Blue by Tom SharpeThe House at Pooh Corner by A.A. MilneThe Shell House by Linda NewberyThe Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Houses
749 books — 51 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Larry McCaffery: The 20th Century's Greatest Hits (English Language)
106 books — 51 voters

Vernon God Little by D.B.C. PierrePenguin Lost by Andrey KurkovGoing Postal by Terry PratchettThe Sellout by Paul BeattyLightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing
103 books — 29 voters
Death in Venice by Thomas MannBrighton Rock by Graham GreeneThe Berlin Stories by Christopher IsherwoodSuper-Cannes by J.G. BallardOur Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Cities
1,589 books — 136 voters

The Spinning Heart by Donal RyanCare of Wooden Floors by Will WilesSubmarine by Joe DunthorneSaraswati Park by Anjali JosephBed by David Whitehouse
The Desmond Elliott Prize
121 books — 33 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Collector by John FowlesNotes on a Scandal by Zoë HellerThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Creepiest Narrators
7 books — 5 voters

The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
Beyond the E-Reader
9 books — 11 voters
Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John LanchesterStop What You're Doing and Read This! by Carmen CallilTippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! by Daljit NagraLife! Death! Prizes! by Stephen MayVery Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse
Titles with an Exclamation Point!
1,377 books — 77 voters

The Planets by Sergio ChejfecPrehistoric Times by Éric ChevillardThe Colonel by Mahmoud DowlatabadiAtlas by Dung Kai-cheungKite by Dominique Eddé
The 2013 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Longlist
26 books — 23 voters
HHhH by Laurent BinetA Death in the Family by Karl Ove KnausgårdThe Detour by Gerbrand BakkerThe Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel VásquezThe Last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 Longlist
16 books — 12 voters

Enduring Love by Ian McEwanThe Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist - a Sherlock Holmes Sho... by Arthur Conan DoyleBlast from the Past by Ben Elton
Stalker
25 books — 33 voters
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlFairy Tales by Hans Christian AndersenCandide, or, Optimism by VoltaireFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyCold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Penguin Classics Deluxe & Threads Editions
127 books — 152 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellHamlet by William Shakespeare
Everyman Library Classics
174 books — 96 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftThe Happy Prince And Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
"50 Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read" by China Miéville
50 books — 110 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / ... by Muriel SparkNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
103 books — 151 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanJimmy Corrigan by Chris WareBlankets by Craig ThompsonFun Home by Alison BechdelEustace by S.J. Harris
Best Graphic Novels
3,455 books — 6,758 voters

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
Fiction Set in 14th Century
45 books — 36 voters
A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterSalmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul TordayThe Last King of Scotland by Giles FodenThe Tailor of Panama by John Le CarréJamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Countries
543 books — 155 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Amber Spyglass by Philip PullmanMolesworth by Geoffrey WillansThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Overrated books (Avg rating >3.99)
365 books — 111 voters
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleNotes from the Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyMetamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Gold Bug by Edgar Allan PoeDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Hesperus Classics
125 books — 22 voters

2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeOutland by Alan Dean FosterDead Poets Society by N.H. KleinbaumThe World is Not Enough by Raymond BensonDie Another Day by Raymond Benson
FAVORITE MOVIE-TIE-INS (NOVELIZATIONS)
154 books — 75 voters
The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleRaffles by E.W. HornungA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensNo Way of Telling by Emma Smith
'Best Curl Up In Bed And Re-Read Books!
409 books — 86 voters