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10 Books Most Taught in High School

10 Most Translated Authors

100 Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books [2000-09]

15 Most Boring Literary Classics

25 Most Adapted Authors in Film

25 Most Downloaded eBooks on Project Gutenberg

America's Most Literate US Cities [2004]

America's Most Literate US Cities [2005]

America's Most Literate US Cities [2006]

America's Most Literate US Cities [2007]

Appeared in Madonna's Book 'Sex'

BBC Big Read: The UK's Top 200 Novels [2003]

Beat Generation Writers

Camille Paglia Doesn't Like Me

Celebrity Children's Authors

Children's Book Authors

Cornel West Doesn’t Like Me

Cosmopolitan's 20 Best Escape Novels - Jane Clapperton [1980]

Cracked.com's 5 Greatest Books with Psychotic Fanbases

Daily Beast's 11 Greatest Literary Feuds [2010]

Dante Saw Me in Hell

Elizabeth Gilbert's Top 10 New Classic Short Stories for Entertainment Weekly [1983-2008]

Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Books [1983-2008]

Female Writers Who Used Male Pen Names

Forbes' Top Earning Authors [2008]

Forbes' Top Earning Authors [2012]

Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America

Harlem Renaissance

I Allegedly Wrote Shakespeare's Plays

I Got in Trouble for Plagiarism

I Write Pulp Fiction

I Wrote My Autobiography Without a Ghostwriter

John Updike's 10 Greatest Works of Literature of the Second Millennium [2000]

Kids' Top 100 Favorite Books

Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century [1999]

Longstreet Press' 3 Dumbest Big US Cities [1998]

Longstreet Press' 5 Best Read Big US Cities [1998]

Lost Generation Writers

Men's Health's Dumbest US Cities [January 2005]

Men's Health's Smartest US Cities [January 2005]

Mental Floss' 25 Most Influential Books of the Past 25 Years [2009]

Modern Library's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998]

National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read Selections [Authors]

O Magazine's 35 Best Christmas Books [2020]

Oprah's Book Club Selections

Physicians Turned Authors

Playwrights

Profiles in Courage

Publisher Weekly's Best-Selling Novel of the Year

Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children

Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]

Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time

Vincent Buglosi Books

World Almanac's Most Influential Books of All Time

World Literature Today Top 40 [2001]

World's Top 10 Library Books [2004]

World's Top 10 Library Books [2005]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2008]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2009]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2010]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2011]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2012]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2013]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2014]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2015]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2016]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2017]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2018]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2019]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2020]

Yale Book of Quotations Top 10 Quotes [2021]

 

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