My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghBoy Parts by Eliza  ClarkThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathLuster by Raven LeilaniAnimal by Lisa Taddeo
Messy Women
45 books — 28 voters
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Penguin Modern Classics
416 books — 491 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiMetamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Best Surrealist Literature
268 books — 232 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,818 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,344 books — 4,638 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Now That's REALLY Freakin' Weird...
715 books — 554 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
778 books — 3,253 voters
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Eerie fictions written by women
243 books — 67 voters

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonMy Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Vegetarian by Han KangIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
books for feral girls
136 books — 92 voters
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataConversations with Friends by Sally RooneyBoy Parts by Eliza  Clark
women vs the void
242 books — 602 voters


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