2666 by Roberto BolañoNadja by André BretonThe Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesAgainst Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan SontagLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Patti Smith's Lifelong Reading List
103 books — 7 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
592 books — 2,047 voters

The Lover by Marguerite DurasJustine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de SadeFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John ClelandThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioThe 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
Classic Erotic Literature
51 books — 25 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceHistoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline RéageFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Literary Smut
145 books — 107 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessHoly Bible by AnonymousNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Weirdest Books Ever
1,185 books — 1,192 voters

Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
871 books — 968 voters