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Top 10 Books with One-Letter Titles
You write a book, you get to the end, and then it’s like—meh, I’ll just pick one of the letters of the alphabet for the title.
The Hunger Games Reaches Another Milestone: Top 10 Censored Books
This week, the trilogy climbed the American Library Association’s most “challenged” works list. TIME looked at other bowdlerized books.
Top 10 Books You Were Forced to Read in School
TIME rounds up the classic texts that have monopolized school reading lists for decades.
Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Books
There’s something satisfying in imagining the end of the world. These ten books did it best.
Top 10 Novels of the 2000s
TIME’s Lev Grossman selects the decade’s finest literature, from a book about dueling magicians to one about dueling family members.
Stephen King on His 10 Longest Novels
In an interview with TIME, the prolific author reflected on his ten most monstrously large books.
Top 10 Oddest Marvel Characters
On Aug. 31, Disney announced it would acquire the comic-book publisher Marvel for $4 billion. But the Mouse gets more than just the rights to Spider-man, The X-Men and other bankable superheroes: it also inherits Marvel’s vast …
Top 10 Graphic Novels
Watchmen is one of TIME’s Top 100 Novels. Book critic Lev Grossman picks nine other graphic novels to join it in the pantheon.
Top 10 John Updike Books
American literary legend John Updike died in 2009. TIME chose the prolific author’s most memorable works.
Top 10 Book Controversies
As Banned Books Week begins, TIME looks at 10 works considered too sexy, profane or anti-religious by school systems across the U.S.
Top 10 Romantic Books
From medieval and gothic romances to recent classics, the politics of love transcend time.
All-TIME 100 Novels
Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME.