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High Bias by Marc MastersCod by Mark KurlanskySalt by Mark Kurlansky
You Read a Book about What?
4,046 books — 2,070 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Beginning of a Novel
148 books — 171 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueMiddlemarch, with eBook by George EliotThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Greatest Last Lines
113 books — 22 voters
The Power and the Darkness by Mark RibowskyWalter Johnson by Henry W. ThomasDon't Look Back by Mark RibowskyCrazy '08 by Cait Murphy
Best Baseball Books
747 books — 652 voters

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
The Longest Sentences
72 books — 59 voters
Six Fang Marks & a Tetanus Shot by Richard de Nooy
Best Book Titles
11,299 books — 7,571 voters

Crime & Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe First American by H.W. BrandsMoby Dick by Herman MelvilleJohn Adams by David McCulloughFounding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
Best Audiobooks
1,548 books — 1,099 voters
Ethan Frome by Edith WhartonSome Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Edith Œnone SomervillePersuasion by Jane AustenTypee by Herman MelvilleThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Best Free Audiobooks
207 books — 525 voters

Our Mutual Friend by Charles DickensSome Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Edith Œnone SomervilleEthan Frome by Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
LibriVox Audiobooks
169 books — 63 voters
Mudville by Kurtis Scaletta
2009 Debutantes
58 books — 390 voters

The First American by H.W. Brands
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,757 books — 6,282 voters
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,190 books — 1,503 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,856 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeEast of Eden by John SteinbeckFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,738 voters

The Bible Code by Michael DrosninBig Stone Gap by Adriana TrigianiWild Animus by Rich Shapero
The Worst Books of All Time
8,178 books — 19,864 voters