The Shining by Stephen  KingIt by Stephen  King’Salem’s Lot by Stephen  KingDracula by Bram StokerPet Sematary by Stephen  King
Best Horror Novels
2,107 books — 5,488 voters
The Shining by Stephen  KingIt by Stephen  KingThe Stand by Stephen  KingDracula by Bram Stoker’Salem’s Lot by Stephen  King
The Definitive Horror Book List
1,388 books — 1,987 voters

The Shining by Stephen  KingThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonTales from the Wasteland by Jon L. YoungSorrow's Point by Danielle DeVorThe Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
Haunted House Books
177 books — 198 voters
To Live by Yu HuaRed Sorghum by Mo YanWaiting by Ha JinEmpress Orchid by Anchee MinRaise the Red Lantern by Su Tong
Fiction from the Chinese Mainland
132 books — 137 voters

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboDeadly Election by Arthur CrandonFirst I Love You by Genevieve DeweyBoot by Charles L. TempletonFound Money by Peter Watson Jenkins
Little Known Authors Worth Reading
3,982 books — 3,186 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,573 voters

Journey to the West by Biao  WangOracle Bones by Peter HesslerRiver Town by Peter HesslerFactory Girls by Leslie T. ChangJourney to the Forbidden China by Steven W. Mosher
Life in Modern China
42 books — 38 voters
The Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinTo Live by Yu HuaWolf Totem by Jiang RongBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieThe Four Books by Yan Lianke
Modern Chinese Literature
80 books — 38 voters

Stoner by John  WilliamsBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy2666 by Roberto BolañoButcher's Crossing by John  WilliamsMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Hip Opinions
313 books — 116 voters

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
3,030 books — 2,559 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 585 voters


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