The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Principia  by Isaac NewtonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingPorterhouse Blue by Tom SharpeMaurice by E.M. Forster
Cambridge University
238 books — 62 voters
The Collector by John FowlesIce Station Zebra by Alistair MacLeanThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Girls of Slender Means by Muriel SparkStig of the Dump by Clive King
Best Books 1963
128 books — 58 voters

The History Man by Malcolm BradburyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroLazarus Is Dead by Richard BeardEveryone Is Watching by Megan BradburyScepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler
The University of East Anglia
70 books — 20 voters
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneEmpire of the Sun by J.G. BallardEnduring Love by Ian McEwanErewhon by Samuel Butler
Good Books that Begin with E
557 books — 84 voters

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert TressellLanded by Tim Pears
Owen
47 books — 10 voters
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin CrispImpossible Object by Nicholas MosleyA Kestrel for a Knave by Barry HinesDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
Best Books 1968
148 books — 58 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigZona by Geoff DyerYoung Adolf by Beryl BainbridgeYoung Törless by Robert MusilYou Are Here by Rory Bremner
Titles that start with X, Y, or Z
842 books — 238 voters
Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire BellocThe Longest Journey by E.M. ForsterThe Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Best Books 1907
58 books — 21 voters

Howards End by E.M. ForsterGertrude by Hermann Hesse
Best Books 1910
82 books — 28 voters
Strife by John GalsworthyStrait is the Gate by André Gide
Best Books 1909
71 books — 26 voters

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. BarrieThe Railway Children by E. NesbitLove Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse
Best Books 1906
50 books — 24 voters
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. JohnsonHinterland by Caroline BrothersLife! Death! Prizes! by Stephen MayMy Policeman by Bethan RobertsWhoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
Books I Read in 2012
461 books — 51 voters

The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenComplete Shorter Fiction by Oscar WildeBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleDubliners by James JoyceSherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Short Stories of All Time
602 books — 396 voters
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieSwallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome1066 and all that by W.C. SellarThe Luzhin Defense by Vladimir NabokovNarcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Best Books 1930
112 books — 38 voters

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesEmil and the Detectives by Erich KästnerTintin in the Land of the Soviets by Hergé
Best Books 1929
65 books — 24 voters
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieSeven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. LawrenceThe Castle by Franz Kafka
Best Books 1926
70 books — 38 voters

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieR.U.R. by Karel Čapek
Best Books 1920
60 books — 31 voters
Klingsor's Last Summer by Hermann HesseThe Young Visiters by Daisy AshfordStrange News from Another Star by Hermann Hesse
Best Books 1919
54 books — 18 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe 39 Steps by John Buchan
Best Books 1915
51 books — 34 voters
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Best Books 1914
49 books — 19 voters

When We Were Very Young by A.A. MilneA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannCorydon by André Gide
Best Books 1924
50 books — 30 voters
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Best Books 1912
40 books — 21 voters

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick HamiltonAuto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
Best Books 1935
67 books — 24 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienGoodbye to Berlin by Christopher IsherwoodThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books 1939
77 books — 37 voters
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerEvil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Best books 1940
50 books — 33 voters

The Ministry of Fear by Graham GreeneThe Glass Bead Game by Hermann HesseOur Lady of the Flowers by Jean GenetThe Gremlins by Roald DahlBedknob and Broomstick by Mary Norton
Best Books 1943
118 books — 46 voters
The Heart of the Matter by Graham GreeneI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithOther Voices, Other Rooms by Truman CapoteBuried For Pleasure by Edmund Crispin
Best Books 1948
83 books — 45 voters