The Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Best Female Lead Characters
4,829 books — 5,834 voters
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Victorian Novels
213 books — 504 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAsk the Dust by John FanteOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
903 books — 1,249 voters
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Books you never wanted to end.
368 books — 270 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerLady Oracle by Margaret AtwoodOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Beginning
708 books — 645 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Best Dark Humor
724 books — 1,651 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best Gothic Books of All Time
560 books — 3,464 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books That Made You Cry
1,603 books — 3,240 voters

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckTender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Book Titles
11,306 books — 7,573 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroIn the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
Dystopia!
1,212 books — 2,758 voters

Best Books Ever
75,021 books — 278,416 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,231 books — 118,380 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Book of Illusions by Paul AusterThe Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,203 books — 28,360 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,743 voters

Watership Down by Richard  AdamsThe World According to Garp by John Irving
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,928 books — 1,870 voters
Trainspotting by Irvine WelshSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessEmma by Jane Austen
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,132 books — 10,110 voters

Trainspotting by Irvine WelshThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradOliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Worst Books of All Time
8,175 books — 19,865 voters
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Summer Before the Dark by Doris LessingThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Feminist Fiction
1,496 books — 2,661 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,662 books — 25,883 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Best Young Adult Books
13,032 books — 80,087 voters


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