The Sad Part Was by Prabda YoonTokyo Ueno Station by Yū MiriOne Hundred Shadows by Hwang JungeunOf Strangers and Bees by Hamid IsmailovStrange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
Tilted Axis Press
52 books — 35 voters
The New York Trilogy by Paul AusterIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPublic Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
Tips for a Borges Lover
19 books — 12 voters

Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu MiaojinLast Words from Montmartre by Qiu MiaojinConfessions of a Mask by Yukio MishimaLie With Me by Philippe BessonIf Not, Winter by Sappho
LGBTQ literature in English translation
253 books — 65 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 145 voters

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorSatantango by László Krasznahorkai
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 180 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

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
632 books — 897 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
595 books — 2,051 voters

North and South by Elizabeth GaskellWives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellLady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon by Jane AustenEvelina by Frances BurneyThe Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
More Jane for the Austen Purist
150 books — 139 voters


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