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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeEnd of a Mission by Heinrich BöllBleak House by Charles DickensThe Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareThe Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Law and Lawyers in Fiction
460 books — 180 voters
Suits Me by Diane Wood Middlebrook
Transgender Memoirs and Biographies
118 books — 85 voters

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyCrossing to Safety by Wallace StegnerThe Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Iowa Writers' Workshop
141 books — 32 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoRising Sun by Michael CrichtonThe Lost Symbol by Dan BrownThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Thrillers
4,393 books — 5,395 voters

Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith RossnerThe Ascent of Man by Jacob BronowskiHigh-Rise by J.G. BallardZapata by John Steinbeck
Best Books 1975
230 books — 66 voters
The Privileges by Jonathan DeeThe Majesties by Tiffany TsaoCrazy Rich Asians by Kevin KwanOne Fifth Avenue by Candace BushnellFree Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Books about the rich, jet-set, leisure class
95 books — 75 voters

God Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensGood Without God by Greg M. Epstein
Notable Atheist Books
544 books — 1,006 voters
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
164 books — 723 voters

The Hub by Thomas H. O'ConnorRussian Winter by Daphne KalotaySight Reading by Daphne KalotayThe Good City by Emily HiestandThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Boston Books
324 books — 271 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che GuevaraA Quiet Revolution by Leila AhmedAn Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati RoyThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,032 books — 1,487 voters

The Quickening by Michelle HooverDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraA Quiet Revolution by Leila AhmedThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneAnd Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Q is for quality
358 books — 46 voters
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora WeltyThe Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy TanThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy TanAhab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Female Relative Phenomenon
514 books — 134 voters

The Known World by Edward P. JonesAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeIndependence Day by Richard FordMartin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
98 books — 262 voters
Palace Walk by Naguib MahfouzThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky2666 by Roberto BolañoMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,857 books — 7,494 voters

The Sportswriter by Richard FordU.S.A. by John Dos PassosThe Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Literary Trilogies
260 books — 155 voters
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean GreerThe Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean GreerChina Boy by Gus Lee
San Francisco Bay Area Fiction
441 books — 321 voters

Grant by Jean Edward Smith
Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)
464 books — 517 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Emigrants by W.G. SebaldFinnegans Wake by James JoyceFive Spice Street by Can Xue
Most Difficult Novels
576 books — 2,033 voters

Doctor Faustus by Thomas MannBilliards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich BöllBerlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred DöblinDie Entdeckung der Langsamkeit by Sten NadolnyAusterlitz by W.G. Sebald
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,011 books — 946 voters
Doctor Faustus by Thomas MannDie Entdeckung der Langsamkeit by Sten NadolnyThe Adventures of Baron Münchausen by Rudolf Erich RaspeThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaBerlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
German Classics
208 books — 146 voters

2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyUlysses by James JoyceIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 522 voters
1984 by George OrwellNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroLord of the Flies by William GoldingHerland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,533 books — 26,629 voters

Symptoms of Culture by Marjorie GarberFailed States by Noam ChomskySolitary Sex by Thomas W. LaqueurHow Soccer Explains the World by Franklin FoerLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,832 books — 2,544 voters
The Lexicographer's Dilemma by Jack LynchThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Books with Books on Them
39 books — 18 voters

2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Oxford History of Western Music by Richard TaruskinKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian BarnesThe Known World by Edward P. Jones
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,151 books — 28,525 voters
An Equal Stillness by Francesca KayThe Centaur by John UpdikeThe Painter From Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein
Art & Artists in Fiction
886 books — 1,118 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukOne Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
376 books — 270 voters
Disgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Booker Prize Winners
59 books — 1,979 voters

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey NiffeneggerOf Bees and Mist by Erick SetiawanThe Convalescent by Jessica Anthony
Best Books of 2009
1,749 books — 6,942 voters
The Quickening by Michelle HooverRussian Winter by Daphne KalotayFreedom by Jonathan FranzenThe Art of Choosing by Sheena IyengarMisadventure by Millard Kaufman
Best Books of 2010
1,565 books — 2,601 voters