Flatland by Edwin A. AbbottDragon's Egg by Robert L. ForwardThe Shadow of the Torturer by Gene WolfeThe Claw of the Conciliator by Gene WolfeThe Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
In a strange place
62 books — 19 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
DIFFICULT BUT REWARDING
158 books — 68 voters
Purge by Sofi OksanenAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerDefiance by Carole MasoGiovanni's Room by James BaldwinThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
The Best of Bitterness
33 books — 7 voters

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee BenderTwilight by Stephenie MeyerIf You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe NumeroffThe Cupcake Queen by Heather Hepler
Food on the Cover
1,355 books — 436 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldMatilda by Roald Dahl
Best Books About Loving Books
375 books — 516 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1,195 books — 2,820 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 — 1,574 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Gothic Literature
343 books — 507 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories
1,767 books — 1,079 voters


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