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Persuasion by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenOne Day by David NichollsLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
All Time Favorite Romance Novels
5,484 books — 12,510 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodPersuasion by Jane Austen
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,067 books — 5,120 voters

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerFragments by Gaspar Jaén i UrbánAll the Names by José SaramagoMaus II by Art SpiegelmanSputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,141 books — 3,669 voters
Caim by José SaramagoLa Amistad según Epicuro by Maite Larrauri GómezThe Laws of Simplicity by John MaedaAfter the Quake by Haruki MurakamiAfter Dark by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,224 books — 28,362 voters

1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesFreedom by Jonathan FranzenCirce by Madeline Miller
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,674 books — 14,014 voters
Siddhartha by Hermann HesseTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Books that Changed My World View
466 books — 410 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Pullitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
60 books — 13 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodSiddhartha by Hermann HesseTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,212 books — 118,005 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe World According to Garp by John Irving
Best Books Ever
74,899 books — 277,800 voters