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Candy by Terry SouthernThe Happy Hooker by Xaviera HollanderDhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyMyra Breckinridge/Myron by Gore Vidal
Books I Am Going to Hell For Reading
378 books — 409 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Best Fiction With Disfigured/Disabled Leads
1,168 books — 1,059 voters

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John ClelandThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioLysistrata by AristophanesMoll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Literary Smut
145 books — 108 voters
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
Fall 2011 - Books to Check Out
300 books — 1,195 voters

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettGoldfinger by Ian FlemingJason and the Golden Fleece by Apollonius of RhodesThe Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray BradburyThe Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
All that Glitters...
377 books — 48 voters
The Collected Poems by Langston HughesComplete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonComplete Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert FrostShe Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time
258 books — 231 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodLogan's Run by William F. Nolan
Dystopia!
1,212 books — 2,756 voters
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken KeseyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best Books of Your Lifetime
530 books — 172 voters

Snuff by Terry Pratchett1948 by David PietruszaGriots by Milton J. DavisBye Bye, Baby by Max Allan Collins
Can't Wait Books For 2011
1,241 books — 6,632 voters
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
415 books — 434 voters

Changa's Safari by Milton J. DavisImaro by Charles R. SaundersImaro by Charles R. SaundersGriots by Milton J. Davis
Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color
728 books — 467 voters
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah VowellA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Coming of the Terrans by Leigh BrackettLorelei of the Red Mist by Leigh BrackettA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
Hey, chicks can write, too!
1,082 books — 224 voters

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,918 books — 2,058 voters
In Search of History by Theodore H. WhiteDeadline by James Barrett RestonThe Generous Years by Chet HuntleyFragile Innocence by James Reston Jr.From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
Books by Journalists
438 books — 106 voters

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisLeading with Soul by Lee G. BolmanSoul on Ice by Eldridge CleaverThe Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Books With the Word "SOUL" in the title
510 books — 53 voters
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael ChabonDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerReason by Robert B. ReichThe Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
The Best of Jewish Authors
728 books — 192 voters

Mirror to America by John Hope FranklinTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin1776 by David McCulloughCollapse by Jared DiamondBecoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005 (fiction and nonfiction)
74 books — 72 voters
Six Days of the Condor by James GradyShibumi by TrevanianYou Only Live Twice by Ian FlemingWho's on First by William F. Buckley Jr.Stained Glass by William F. Buckley Jr.
Espionage
972 books — 1,001 voters

A Place Called School by John I. GoodladHigh school by Ernest L. Boyer
Books every teacher should read
244 books — 236 voters
Witches Abroad by Terry PratchettThe Most of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. WodehouseI'll Mature When I'm Dead by Dave BarryHigh Five by Janet EvanovichBig Trouble by Dave Barry
Bizarre and/or Hilarious
94 books — 138 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Midlife Crisis Novels
159 books — 119 voters
The Long Ships by Frans G. BengtssonThe Poetic Edda by UnknownKon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,209 books — 1,244 voters

Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
Books with 'Girl' in the Title
2,372 books — 278 voters
Red Summer by Cameron McWhirterFrost by Donald WandreiUnheard Cries by Joyce MitchellLifeblood by Werner A. LindWhen Trumpets Call by Patricia O'Toole
Home Bookshelf
1,091 books — 82 voters

Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
Best Books 1927
50 books — 47 voters
Red Summer by Cameron McWhirterSavage Peace by Ann Hagedorn1919 by William K. KlingamanParis, 1919 by Margaret MacMillanOn the Laps of Gods by Robert Whitaker
Books about the year 1919
93 books — 22 voters

The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard KeynesWinesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonJungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice BurroughsMy Man Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseThe Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Year 1919
15 books — 9 voters
The Long Ships by Frans G. BengtssonAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Thurber Carnival by James ThurberBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughStuart Little by E.B. White
Published in 1945
48 books — 12 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnParting the Waters by Taylor BranchOf Thee I Sing by Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope by Barack ObamaThe Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays by Richard Hofstadter
Best Books For Freedom Lovers
803 books — 488 voters
Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama
What to Read with a Child on the 4th of July
53 books — 71 voters