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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueJude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
14,485 books — 16,045 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsA Touch of Dead by Charlaine HarrisLamb by Christopher MooreWould-Be Witch by Kimberly FrostLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Books I Have Every Intention Of Reading This Year
7,775 books — 2,655 voters

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
Best Literary Fiction, 700+ pages
106 books — 99 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Must Read Classics
1,851 books — 4,610 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniSay You're One of Them by Uwem AkpanWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinTales by H.P. LovecraftWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Must Reads in 2009
139 books — 267 voters
Godless by Ann CoulterGuilty by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann CoulterSlander by Ann CoulterLet Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity
1001 Books I'd Rather Die than Read
965 books — 868 voters

Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας by Roberto Calasso
Books with an Obscure message
12 books — 11 voters
My race be won by Vincent MatthewsOn The Run From Dogs and People by Hal HigdonBowerman and the Men of Oregon by Kenny MooreOnce a Runner by John L. Parker Jr.On the Run by Marty Liquori
Best Running (non-instructional) Books
229 books — 555 voters

Death Angel's Shadow by Karl Edward WagnerThe Essential Conan by Robert E. HowardA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz LeiberFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
My Ten Favorite Tough Guys
59 books — 28 voters
The Dragons of Eden by Carl SaganA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays by Richard HofstadterBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,062 voters

Lean Times in Lankhmar by Fritz LeiberAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,071 books — 66,879 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Road by Cormac McCarthyHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Everyone's Read It But Me
800 books — 4,332 voters

American Gods by Neil GaimanThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeGood Omens by Terry PratchettAnansi Boys by Neil GaimanThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Best Urban Fantasy
4,382 books — 12,471 voters
One for the Money by Janet EvanovichDead Until Dark by Charlaine HarrisThe Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Strong Heroine Series
1,621 books — 2,085 voters

The Concubine by Norah LoftsHomer's Daughter by Robert GravesThe Lost Queen by Norah LoftsEsther by Norah LoftsNorthwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
Historical Gems from the Past
458 books — 322 voters
Flashman by George MacDonald FraserThe Hot Rock by Donald E. WestlakeThe Man from St. Petersburg by Ken FollettGood Omens by Terry PratchettA Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Rooting for the Bad Guy
682 books — 1,468 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord DunsanyThe BFG by Roald DahlNight's Master by Tanith LeeWitch World by Andre Norton
Magical Creatures
1,570 books — 846 voters
The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. EddisonHawaii by James A. MichenerThe Source by James A. MichenerThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,867 books — 6,999 voters

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard
Character You Most Want to Sleep With
4,164 books — 5,429 voters
How Far to Bethlehem? by Norah LoftsThe Old Priory by Norah Lofts
Best Norah Lofts books
74 books — 49 voters

Bunnicula In-a-Box by James HoweRoman Dusk by Chelsea Quinn YarbroFevre Dream by George R.R. MartinAn Old Friend of the Family by Fred Saberhagen
Unusual, Alternative Vampires
433 books — 575 voters
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar WildeA Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan SwiftThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
Best Irish Literature
629 books — 715 voters

First Blood by David MorrellA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanShōgun by James ClavellThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Couldn't Put The Book Down
16,765 books — 16,412 voters
Animal Farm / 1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellFables For Our Time/Further Fables For Our Time by James Thurber
Allegory and allegorical fiction: Theory and Practice
140 books — 57 voters

Lifeblood by Werner A. LindThe Day of the Butterfly by Norah LoftsAfternoon of an Autocrat by Norah LoftsThe Long Ships by Frans G. BengtssonStyrbiorn the Strong by E.R. Eddison
Need to Publish Anew in Hardcover
37 books — 17 voters
Glenn Beck's Common Sense by Glenn BeckAn Inconvenient Book by Glenn BeckThe Savage Nation by Michael SavageLet Freedom Ring by Sean HannityFleeced by Dick Morris
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,636 books — 6,000 voters

At the Hands of Persons Unknown by Philip DrayThe Politics of Rage by Dan T. CarterAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard HofstadterThe Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays by Richard HofstadterThe Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
My Country, the Enemy
393 books — 341 voters
America at 1750 by Richard Hofstadter
The Enlightenment and its Impact
260 books — 85 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinOh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. SeussStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,523 books — 11,149 voters
The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Collected Poems by Langston HughesCracked - Timeless Topics Of Nature, Courage And Endurance by Alice ShapiroThe Collected Poems, Vol. 1 by William Carlos WilliamsCollected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost
Best Poetry Books
2,964 books — 2,410 voters