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American Pastoral by Philip RothThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Dysfunctional Family Novels
178 books — 101 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,851 books — 21,772 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokovx by Želimir PerišMučenice by Želimir PerišWalk Through Walls by Marina AbramovićA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Read it 3 Times!!!
181 books — 15 voters
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Who Let These People Write a Book?
769 books — 972 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyUlysses by James JoyceJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,810 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyLooking for Alaska by John Green
Best Book Club Books
1,055 books — 887 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,651 books — 25,853 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,071 books — 5,779 voters

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
The Worst Books of All Time
8,178 books — 19,863 voters
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Celestine Prophecy by James RedfieldThe Shack by William Paul YoungNoches de baile en el infierno by Meg Cabot
Worst Books I Ever Read
338 books — 270 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
When Friends Fall In Love
1,078 books — 1,665 voters
Sharp Objects by Gillian FlynnLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
What we've read so far in...2015
9,710 books — 2,058 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsLooking for Alaska by John GreenFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesTwilight by Stephenie MeyerBefore I Fall by Lauren Oliver
What we've read so far in 2013...
8,050 books — 2,636 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
What we've read so far in...2014
9,373 books — 2,026 voters

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,055 books — 5,111 voters
Looking for Alaska by John GreenThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Young Adult Realistic Novels
2,653 books — 12,149 voters

Looking for Alaska by John GreenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
My Favourite Books
191 books — 61 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Books All Women Should Read
88 books — 29 voters

La metamorfosis by Franz Kafka
10 most enigmatic and fascinating tales of modern literary history
10 books — 2 voters
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The "Books Are Beautiful" Series
17 books — 8 voters

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
P: Books, characters, authors, etc
223 books — 6 voters
Candide by Voltaire
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,007 voters

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Popular Books Everyone Seems to Love but You
340 books — 180 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
920 books — 2,381 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAnimal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Books everyone has to read before the are 20
48 books — 12 voters
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi PirandelloWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Best Plays Ever
859 books — 1,125 voters

Marked by P.C. CastBetrayed by P.C. CastChosen by P.C. CastUntamed by P.C. CastHunted by P.C. Cast
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,071 books — 66,737 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,032 books — 951 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertSwann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Best French Literature
870 books — 1,548 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireA Doll's House by Henrik IbsenThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. WellsThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,854 voters


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