The Big Gay Read is Britain’s GLBT community's answer to The Big Read that was held a couple years ago. They have listed 21 recommended contemporary novels and the British public will choose what is the favorite (note, not necessarily the "best"). The winner is announced sometime in May 2006.

Books I've read are in bold.

1. The Long Firm - Jake ( Read more... )

National Book Award for Fiction

All the books I've read are in bold2007: Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson ( Read more... )

Paul Murray's Top 10 Gothic Novels

All the books I've read are in bold.

1. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole  2. History of the Caliph Vathek - William Beckford ( Read more... )

100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990 - 2000

All the books I've read are in bold.

1. Scary Stories (Series) - Alvin Schwartz
   
2. Daddy’s Roommate - Michael Willhoite
   
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
   
4. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
   
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
   
6. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
   
7. Harry ( Read more... )

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time

All the books I've read are in bold.

1. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
   
2. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
   
3. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
   
4. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
   
5. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
   
6. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
   
7. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
   
8. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre ( Read more... )

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

All the books I've read are in bold.

1. Ulysses - James Joyce
   
2. The Great Gatsby -, F. Scott Fitzgerald
   
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
   
4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
   
5. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
   
6. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
   
7. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
   
8. Darkness at Noon - Arthur ( Read more... )

BBC's Big Read Top 200

All the books I've read are in bold.

1. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
   
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
   
3. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
   
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
   
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
   
6. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
   
7. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
   
8. ( Read more... )

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

All the books I've read are in bold2007: The Road - Cormac McCarthy ( Read more... )

Booker Prize for Fiction

This list has both winners and shortlist nominees. All the books I've read are in bold.

1969

• P. H. Newby - Something to Answer For
  
• Barry England - Figures in a Landscape
  
• Nicholas Mosley - Impossible Object
  
• Iris Murdoch - The Nice and the Good
  
• Murial Spark - The Public Image
  
• G.M. Williams - From Scenes Like These
  
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College Board's 101 Great Books

All the books I've read are in bold.

1. Anonymous - Beowulf
   
2. Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
   
3. Agee, James - A Death in the Family
   
4. Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
   
5. Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
   
6. Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
   
7. Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
   
8. Brontë, ( Read more... )