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
412 books — 489 voters
Circe by Madeline MillerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Iliad by HomerAriadne by Jennifer Saint
When in Greece...
56 books — 11 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

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert FrostThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. YeatsThe Complete Poems by John Keats
Best Poets
524 books — 393 voters
Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew HerbertPan Tadeusz by Adam MickiewiczThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaSelected Poetry and Prose by Stéphane MallarméLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
Best European Poetry
27 books — 8 voters

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuKokoro by Natsume SōsekiThe Three-Cornered World by Natsume SōsekiEssays in Idleness and Hōjōki by Yoshida KenkōRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japan - Penguin Books Ltd.
35 books — 13 voters
Stoner by John  WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 889 voters

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBonjour tristesse by Françoise SaganMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Europe Minus Men and English
854 books — 226 voters
The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine HoweThe Penguin Book of the Undead by Scott G. BruceThe Penguin Book of Ghost Stories by Michael     NewtonThe Penguin Book of Mermaids by Cristina BacchilegaThe Penguin Book of English Folktales by Neil Philip
The Penguin Book of…
153 books — 19 voters

The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe World of Yesterday by Stefan ZweigDream Story by Arthur SchnitzlerThe Third Man by Graham GreeneA Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton
Vienna/Wien
257 books — 113 voters
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnimal Farm by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
103 books — 154 voters


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