Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile by Françoise SaganCall Me By Your Name by André AcimanMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteHot Milk by Deborah LevyLabels by Evelyn Waugh
Mediterranean Summer
96 books — 15 voters
This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. MoragaBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaBlack Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill CollinsSister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-PerrySister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Feminist Books by Women of Color
170 books — 39 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoycePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 364 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,645 books — 3,615 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
463 books — 107 voters
Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun Takami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
773 books — 3,249 voters

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. ChestertonThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. Valente
"The {_______} Who " Titles
967 books — 129 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Existential Fiction
452 books — 778 voters