The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathRebecca by Daphne du MaurierAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Books Ever
74,891 books — 277,721 voters

When the Sirens Wailed by Noel StreatfeildA Vicarage Family by Noel Streatfeild
Best Children's Historical Fiction
823 books — 825 voters
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Best Young Adult Books
13,029 books — 80,079 voters

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,351 books — 1,776 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
Best Arthurian Fiction
474 books — 1,430 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Epistolary Fiction
850 books — 821 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Books That Shaped Me...
445 books — 150 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottBlack Beauty by John DavageThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
My Favorite Childhood books
750 books — 400 voters

Regeneration by Pat BarkerBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksThe Eye in the Door by Pat BarkerThe War Poems by Siegfried SassoonThe Ghost Road by Pat Barker
World War One Literature
224 books — 358 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNumber the Stars by Lois LowryLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Endless Steppe by Esther HautzigRemembrance by Theresa Breslin
Best Children's Books Involving War
180 books — 70 voters

Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Crucible by Arthur MillerA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Teen Historical Novels
956 books — 1,327 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue TownsendThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankSo Much to Tell You by John Marsden
Best Diary Novels
170 books — 260 voters
Young Adult fiction by UK authors
408 books — 268 voters

Night by Elie WieselMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,062 voters
Daphne du Maurier Collection by Daphne du MaurierRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Books Set in Cornwall
177 books — 134 voters

I, Claudius by Robert GravesClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesPompeii by Robert   HarrisImperium by Robert   HarrisLustrum by Robert   Harris
Best Books About Ancient Rome
731 books — 1,075 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,851 books — 21,776 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,736 voters
1984 by George OrwellNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,653 books — 25,866 voters

Changing Places by David LodgeThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesStoner by John  Williams
Best Fiction Set in Academia
149 books — 152 voters
The Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Best Gay Fiction
2,638 books — 3,820 voters

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. TaylorBeware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn MeyerMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerThe Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Teen Historical Fiction
1,380 books — 3,092 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryI, Claudius by Robert GravesKatherine by Anya Seton
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,519 books — 3,537 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Red Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,415 books — 2,283 voters


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