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The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonCat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee WilliamsPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothHerzog by Saul Bellow
Midlife Crisis Novels
159 books — 119 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Books with 'Girl' in the Title
2,372 books — 278 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienBlack Beauty by Anna SewellThe Dream of Scipio by Iain PearsMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Best Books that Follow an Object Through Time
80 books — 76 voters
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerUlysses by James JoyceSwann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Style as Text
251 books — 128 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanHyperion by Dan Simmons
Best Books of 1989
378 books — 227 voters
God Is an Englishman by R.F. Delderfield
God
1,147 books — 117 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Fiction/Non-fiction Books About India That Don't Focus On the British Raj
225 books — 107 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Favorite Books with 100,000 + Ratings
143 books — 146 voters

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
Paleoanthropological Speculative Fiction , or....
84 books — 79 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHamlet by William ShakespearePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George Orwell
The Goodreads 100—Fiction
100 books — 73 voters

The Mechanical God by Thomas P. DunnDealers of Lightning by Michael A. HiltzikI, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Essential Computer History and Information Revolution Books
107 books — 81 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Unrequited Love
367 books — 194 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierCinderella by Anthea BellLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Domestic Service - Help Wanted!
227 books — 106 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Caves of Steel by Isaac AsimovEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Best Hugo Award Winners and Nominees
294 books — 164 voters

American Diplomacy by George F. KennanDiplomacy by Henry Kissinger
American Foreign Policy
456 books — 268 voters
Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
Doubly Gifted
269 books — 35 voters

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Cherry Picking
213 books — 34 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain
397 books — 213 voters

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Over 500 pages
434 books — 108 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Adventures of Augie March by Saul BellowThe Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
Best Books 1953
138 books — 55 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonFences by August WilsonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Prejudice in America
425 books — 145 voters
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
Books with birds in the title
2,007 books — 275 voters


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