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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Books Set in Iowa
274 books — 73 voters
Poor George by Paula Fox
REALLY Seriously Underrated Books (100 to 500 Ratings)
1,304 books — 202 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 3: Britain & Ireland (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
96 books — 14 voters
The Transit of Venus by Shirley HazzardMemento Mori by Muriel SparkThe Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym
Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 to 10,000 ratings)
1,847 books — 267 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
London Calling
1,229 books — 641 voters
Villette by Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Families of Writers
428 books — 43 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Quality Dark Fiction
2,469 books — 3,217 voters
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Best Books of 1987
379 books — 185 voters

Home by Toni MorrisonMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
War has no winners
1,123 books — 476 voters
Home by Toni Morrison
2012's Best Literary Fiction By People of Color
39 books — 117 voters

Winter by Ali Smith
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2018
158 books — 236 voters
Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu MiaojinIf Not, Winter by Sappho
LGBTQ literature in English translation
250 books — 64 voters

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Best Books 1948
60 books — 44 voters
Autumn by Ali SmithPriestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
100 Notable Books of 2017 - The New York Times
100 books — 93 voters

Wolf Solent by John Cowper PowysThe Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings)
3,161 books — 764 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Anarchist books
468 books — 370 voters

Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin
New York Review Books - Classics
532 books — 881 voters
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Best Books of 1980
326 books — 211 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersI Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah GreenWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Titlemania III: Whole-Sentence Titles
1,448 books — 150 voters
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
343 books — 232 voters

My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Multivolume Lit
197 books — 14 voters
The Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,851 books — 21,779 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XHousekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Best Books Ever
74,912 books — 277,814 voters
Song of Solomon by Toni MorrisonThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,936 books — 1,870 voters

Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth T. Jackson
McMansion Hell Reading List
14 books — 3 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottPlanet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Science Fiction
3,615 books — 6,826 voters

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Classic Science Fiction - 1970-1979
272 books — 245 voters
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Best of Joyce Carol Oates
117 books — 83 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerHousekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Great American Novel
666 books — 1,088 voters
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
Europa Edition Books
126 books — 140 voters


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