All lists
145 curated lists — literary awards, institutions, and celebrity picks.
#ThisBook
20 books
100 Best Novels in English, Since 1900
100 books
100 Most Influential Books of the Century
100 books
1001 books to read before you die
1292 books
20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction
114 books
25 Books to Read Before You Turn 25
25 books
30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die
29 books
50 Books to (Re-)Read at 50
51 books
Adam Grant's reading recommendations
118 books
ALS Gold Medal
66 books
Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
98 books
Anthony Award for Best Novel
38 books
Aspen Words Literary Prize
9 books
Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books
100 books
Barack Obama
101 books
BBC 100 Greatest British Novels
104 books
BBC Big Read
200 books
Best 25 Irish books of the 21st century: how readers voted
25 books
Best American Fiction, 1981-2006
26 books
Between Two Books
54 books
Biblioteca Argentina
41 books
Big Jubilee List
69 books
Bob Dylan
43 books
Bokkluben World's Library
100 books
Booker International
11 books
Booker Prize
58 books
Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
37 books
Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
15 books
Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
14 books
Complete Review's recommended books
120 books
Costa Book Award
57 books
David Bowie's Top 100
99 books
Donald Bartheleme's Recommendations
82 books
DW's Best 100 German Books
100 books
Edgar Award for Best Novel
73 books
El País: 100 Spanish language authors
135 books
Encyclopedia Brittanica's Greatest Books Ever Written
12 books
Enterntainment Weekly's 100 All-Time Greatest Novels
109 books
Esquire 80 Books Every Person Should Read
80 books
Esquire's 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read (2015)
74 books
Esquire's 80 Books Every Man Should Read (2022)
79 books
Europese Literatuurprijs
16 books
Flavor Wire's Top Books, 1963-2013
51 books
For The Love of Books
93 books
Foyles Book of the Year
10 books
Foyles Book of the Year Nonfiction
8 books
Gold Dagger
72 books
Gordon Burn Prize
12 books
Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
4 books
Guardian Fiction Prize
35 books
Harvard Book Store Top 100
99 books
Hawthornden Prize
84 books
Hugo Award Winners for Best Novel
66 books
International Dublin Literary Award
29 books
James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
111 books
Jan Michalski Prize
16 books
Jim Morrison
39 books
John Leonard's Prize
13 books
Kirkus Award Fiction
12 books
Kirkus Award Nonfiction
12 books
Koen's Top 100
100 books
Le Monde 100 Books of the Century
100 books
Libraries' Top 500
500 books
Library of Congress' Books that Shaped America
99 books
List of best-selling books
158 books
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lit Top 100 books
100 books
Lithub's Top 50 Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages
49 books
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Malcolm Gladwell's reading recommendations
61 books
Marc Andreessen's reading recommendations
108 books
Masterpieces of World Literature
244 books
Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels
101 books
Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction
98 books
Modern Library 100 Best Novels
100 books
Modern Library 100 Best Novels The Readers List
100 books
Most downloaded free books
94 books
Mystery Writers of America's Top 100
100 books
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's reading recommendations
70 books
National Book Award - Nonfiction
47 books
National Book Award Best Fiction
80 books
National Book Award for Poetry
140 books
National Book Critics Circle Award Nonfiction
49 books
Nebula awards
60 books
Neil Gaiman's reading recommendations
35 books
New York's Public Library Top 50, 1956-2005
50 books
NPR's 100 Killer Thrillers
100 books
NYT Readers best 100 books of the 21st century
100 books
NYT The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
100 books
Parade's Top 222 of all Time
222 books
Paste's Magazine Top 20, 2000-2009
26 books
Patti Smith
81 books
PBS's The Great American Read
100 books
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
44 books
Philip K. Dick Award
43 books
Pour une Bibliothèque Idéale
109 books
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
108 books
Pulitzer prize for fiction
98 books
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
66 books
Pulitzer Prize for History
100 books
Radcliffe's Top 100
100 books
Reddit r/truelit
100 books
Roosevelt's recommended reading
116 books
Sahitya Akademi English Winners
54 books
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
100 books
Service95 Book Club (Dua Lipa’s Monthly Reads)
36 books
Something Awful's Book Club
89 books
Stephen King
38 books
Telegraph's Perfect Library: 110 books
112 books
Telerama top 25
26 books
The 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century
100 books
The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time
100 books
The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1893 – 1993
100 books
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
100 books
The 50 Greatest Novels Ever
23 books
The Best Southern Nonfiction of All Time
25 books
The Best Southern Novels of All Time
32 books
The Booklist Century 100 Books, 100 Years
98 books
The Globe's 50 Greatest Books
53 books
The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Of All Time In English (2026)
100 books
The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English (2015)
100 books
The Guardian's Top Books of the 2000s
52 books
The Learning Channel Great Books
46 books
The National Book Critics Circle Awards
49 books
The New Lifetime Reading Plan
202 books
The New York Public Library's Books of the Century
175 books
The New York Times Book Review
277 books
The Novel 100
127 books
The Observer's Top 10 Commonwealth novels, 1980-2005
10 books
The Observer's Top 100
100 books
The Onion's AV Club Top Books of the 2000s
30 books
The Times' 100 Best Books of the Decade, 2000-2009
100 books
The Times' Top 50, 1922-2022
51 books
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
100 books
The Top Ten by Peder Zane
101 books
Time's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time
100 books
Time's Magazine Top 100 English novels, 1923-2005
100 books
Top 50 Books
49 books
Top 50 Masterpieces of Medieval Literature
50 books
Tozai Mystery Best 100 (2012)
100 books
Världsbiblioteket
100 books
Women's Prize for Fiction
29 books
Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
3 books
World Fantasy Award Best Novel
55 books
XLSemanal
195 books
Zeit Library of World Literature (2023)
100 books
Zeit's Library of 100 Books (1983)
100 books