The Doll by Bolesław PrusSolaris by Stanisław LemPrimeval and Other Times by Olga TokarczukThis Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz BorowskiBlood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
Polish Books Published in English
336 books — 113 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerIron Kingdom by Christopher   ClarkThe Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansThe Sleepwalkers by Christopher   Clark
German History
596 books — 155 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantThe Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Art & Artists in Fiction
962 books — 1,128 voters
Faithful Ruslan by Georgi VladimovA Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail BulgakovAfter Midnight by Irmgard KeunThe War With The Newts by Karel ČapekThe Train by Georges Simenon
Neversink Library
41 books — 40 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferSarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
WWII Historic Fiction
1,494 books — 1,578 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyTrue Grit by Charles PortisAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Literary Westerns
288 books — 392 voters

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréStasiland by Anna FunderEvery Man Dies Alone by Hans FalladaA Woman in Berlin by AnonymousIn the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Berlin
316 books — 187 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,998 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
596 books — 2,054 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
1,703 books — 1,453 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksGoodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Great War
780 books — 600 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,278 books — 11,614 voters


« previous 1