Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelDandelion Wine by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLight a Penny Candle by Maeve BinchyThe Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Smells
495 books — 94 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Medicine and Literature
1,831 books — 1,988 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Best Ending
8,041 books — 6,048 voters
My Last Duchess and Other Poems by Robert BrowningThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William BlakeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Romantic Poets
114 books — 40 voters

Reviving Ophelia by Mary PipherThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Group by Mary McCarthy
Mary, Mary, quite contrary ...
477 books — 79 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  HarrisAngels & Demons by Dan    Brown
Thrillers
4,510 books — 5,475 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensMoby Dick by Herman MelvilleThe Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
"Dear Reader" The Involved Narrator
63 books — 18 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Unhappy Marriages
482 books — 284 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books on Loneliness
513 books — 495 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Families of Writers
428 books — 43 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
True Crime--Well Written
388 books — 383 voters
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussThe Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenLittle Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart HymanThe Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
Inside Your Wardrobe
795 books — 119 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Silver Chair by C.S. LewisAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
A Kaleidoscope of Colors
2,184 books — 198 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 518 voters

Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Poetry Books
2,964 books — 2,410 voters
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons by Igor Stravinsky
Classical Music: Nonfiction
300 books — 72 voters

Falling Angels by Tracy ChevalierEmpire Falls by Richard RussoThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerAfter the Fall by Arthur Miller
Falling and Felling
210 books — 48 voters

Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Postcolonial Britain
78 books — 28 voters


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