The Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph FasanoSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelVioleta by Isabel AllendeThe Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok LeeElizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
Anticipated 2022 Literary Fiction
414 books — 386 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWilder Girls by Rory PowerDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonHouse of Hollow by Krystal SutherlandUzumaki by Junji Ito
Body Horror
51 books — 37 voters

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineSatantango by László Krasznahorkai
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters
Conversations with S. Teri O'Type by Christopher  AllenWorlds Apart by Dorothee LangThree Squares a Day with Occasional Torture by Julie InnisAction, Figure by Frank HintonThe Same Terrible Storm by Sheldon Lee Compton
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23 books — 11 voters

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeThe Quincunx by Charles PalliserThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonPower And Prediction by Ajay Agrawal
Best Unappreciated Books
4,350 books — 2,181 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll1984 by George OrwellThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Reality Warping Fiction
329 books — 169 voters
Her Little Flowers by Shannon  MorganThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Kyanite Alliance by Nora HalliwellTeatro Grottesco by Thomas LigottiThe Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Dark Literature
270 books — 175 voters

A New Theory of Urban Design by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Phenomenon of Life by Christopher W. AlexanderA Vision of a Living World by Christopher W. AlexanderHassan Fathy by Salma Samar DamlujiArchitect's Handbook of Construction Detailing by David Kent Ballast
architect reads - part 2
100 books — 2 voters
Atmospheres by Peter ZumthorThe Poetics of Space by Gaston BachelardA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. AlexanderTwenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand by Simon Unwin
An Architect Reads
102 books — 11 voters

Impossible Exchange by Jean BaudrillardSigns Taken for Wonders by Franco MorettiThe System of Objects by Jean BaudrillardThe Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj ŽižekFragments by Jean Baudrillard
Verso Radical Thinkers
132 books — 6 voters