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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu SuzukiZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigBe Here Now by Ram Dass
A Buddhist Reading List
894 books — 1,153 voters
The Godfather by Mario PuzoThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingMystic River by Dennis Lehane
Best Movie Adaptations
439 books — 258 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 499 voters
Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftLord of the Flies by William GoldingOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Gone Native
88 books — 53 voters

Doctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Land of Ice and Snow
136 books — 68 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Odyssey by HomerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerMacbeth by William Shakespeare
Best Books From Before 1950
542 books — 135 voters

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardThe Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Titles Based on Lines from HAMLET
99 books — 29 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le CarréSnow Crash by Neal StephensonThe Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
Frosty Book Titles
1,416 books — 158 voters

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Titles from Macbeth
22 books — 21 voters
American Diplomacy by George F. KennanThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesDiplomacy by Henry KissingerThe Honorary Consul by Graham GreeneThe Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
Diplomacy in Book Titles
150 books — 45 voters

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2 by Dante Alighieri
Best Books Not Set On Earth
169 books — 29 voters
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
Medieval Welsh and Irish literature
80 books — 52 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Greenlanders by Jane SmileyPolar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
The Land, the Time, the People, the Life
222 books — 59 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Women's Journals and Diaries in History
469 books — 213 voters

Othello by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareBeloved by Toni MorrisonPersuasion by Jane Austen
One Word Titles
2,444 books — 261 voters
The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
Holidays
5,728 books — 1,238 voters

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
Best Books For Freedom Lovers
803 books — 488 voters
A Child's Christmas in Wales & Five Poems by Dylan ThomasA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lyric Prose
88 books — 44 voters

Paradise Lost by John MiltonHamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Renaissance Literature Reading List
81 books — 55 voters
Devices and Desires by P.D. James
Title Search: Plural and Plural
239 books — 38 voters

Northwest Passage by Kenneth RobertsArundel by Kenneth Roberts
Historical Gems from the Past
458 books — 322 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHowards End by E.M. ForsterEmma by Jane AustenThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Upper Classes
378 books — 142 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Books I Read in 2011
274 books — 30 voters
Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 35 voters

Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
From Fresh Air
105 books — 83 voters
King Lear by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareRichard III by William Shakespeare
The Best Shakespeare Plays
41 books — 170 voters

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Crossing Barrier(s) in Fiction Titles
148 books — 22 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellSophie’s Choice by William StyronRabbit, Run by John Updike
Best Books of Your Lifetime
530 books — 172 voters

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeKing Lear by William Shakespeare
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
415 books — 434 voters
Lad by Albert Payson Terhune
Dogs, Literal and Metaphorical
360 books — 76 voters