Book Lists

• Time Magazine:  100 Best English-language Books since 1923 - selected by Times critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo (2005)
• Guardian Unlimited:  100 Best Works of Fiction - as determined from a vote by 100 noted writers from 54 countries (2002)
• Modern Library: 100 Best English-language Novels (1998) - ML is a division of Random House (two lists:  one from ML Board; one from readers)
  
• Radcliff Publishing Course: 100 Best English-language Novels (1998) - response to the Modern Library list
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica: Great Books of the Western World (1952)
• Clifton Fadiman: Lifetime Reading Plan (4th Ed. 1997)
• New York Times:  Best Books of Year (selected by the NYT book review editors)  2018 :: 2017 :: 2016 :: 2015 :: 2014 :: 2013 :: 2012 ::  2011 ::  2010  ::  2009  ::  2008  ::  2007  :: 2006 ::  2005  ::  2004  ::  2003  ::  2002  ::  2001  ::  2000  ::  1999  ::  1998  ::  1997
  
• New York Times:  Best Works of Amer. Fiction the Last 25 Years (2006)
  
• New York Times:  Bestseller List (currently)
• New York Times: Best Books of the past 125 years (December 2021)
• MPR The Thread's list of best fiction of the year: 2018 :: 2017
• NPR list of book club suggestions:  2022 :: 2021 :: 2020 
• NPR lists of best books: 2022 :: 2021 :: 2020 :: 2019 ::  2018 :: 2017 :: 2016 :: 2015 ::  2014 ::  2013  ::  2012  ::  2011  ::  2010  
• NPR's list of top 100 fantasy and science fiction (listeners selected); cool flow chart
• LibraryThing: Top 1000 - as voted by readers at large (currently)
  
• Harvard: Pre-College Reading List
• UC Berkeley:  Summer Reading List
  
• Univ. of Texas: Freshman Reading Roundup
• Amer. Library Assn.: Banned and Challenged Books
• Readinggroupguides.com publishes a guide:  Historical fiction  ::  Literary fiction  ::  Mystery/Thriller  :: Popular fiction  ::  Award winners  ::  Biography/Memoir  ::  Classics  ::  Religion/Spirituality
  
• Publishers Weekly Best Sellers:  1900s  ::  1910s  ::  1920s  ::  1930s  ::  1940s  ::  1950s  ::  1960s  ::  1970s  ::  1980s  :: 1990s  ::  2000s ::  Current
• Publishers Weekly, Best Books of: 2017 :: 2016 ::  2011  :  2010    
• Bookmovement's Member Recommendations
  
• Have a reading list made for you by a reference librarian at Jones Library, Amherst College
• LibraryThing's Book Suggester - create account, enter books you like, get suggestions
• Hennepin County Library:  Book club kits (8-10 copies of one book and study questions)
• Oprah's Book Club list (No sneering; she's picked a lot of great literatur e since 2002)
• Nancy Pearl has compiled whole books ("Book Lust", etc) with lists of reading recommendations organized by themes or topics
• NPR's list of Top 100 listener favorites in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category
• Everyman's Library list
• Hennepin County Library's "Find a book" page, with links to databases and websites for book-finding
• AARP list of 21 Must read books
• David Bowie's top 100 favorite books
• Bruce Springsteen lists favorite books and books that inspired his music.
• Ernest Hemingway's suggested reading list for a young writer
• Ernest Hemingway's list from an Esquire interview in 1953
• 10 Classic Gothic Novels
• President Obama's summer reading list: 2009, 2011, 2015 :: 2018
• Subtext Books Best of:  2015
• Business Insider: 25 Books That Will Blow Your Mind, compiled from Amazon's list of books to read in a lifetime, Goodreads recommendations. Looks like a great list.
• LDCW Book Club 2017-2018 Women and Justice Book List - Thanks to Suzanne for this list.
• Goodreads' 200 Most Difficult Books list - Not all are difficult, and we've read and enjoyed many of these.  Great list, imo.
• Mysteries for lovers of literary fiction.
• 100 Best Thrillers - Signature
• The Tournament of Books
• Article listing lots of literary ghost stories
• PBS Great American Read
• WhichBook - select certain parameters on a sliding scale (e.g. Gentle vs Violent, Beautiful vs. Disgusting) and get book recommendations.
• The Greatest Books.Org lists - Uses an algorithm to pull from a variety of best book lists - Published since 1900 ::  Published since 2000 (can set other time frames or other parameters)