Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderJust Mercy by Bryan StevensonPushout by Monique W. MorrisResistance Behind Bars by Victoria Law
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139 books — 58 voters
My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby FischerBobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby FischerLogical Chess by Irving ChernevThe Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail TalHow to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman
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303 books — 127 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon SinghZero by Charles Seife
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452 books — 672 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Recognitions by William GaddisWittgenstein’s Mistress by David MarksonJ R by William GaddisThe Tunnel by William H. Gass
Best Dalkey Archive Titles
152 books — 87 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
Embers by Sándor MáraiJourney by Moonlight by Antal SzerbThe Door by Magda SzabóFatelessness by Imre KertészThe Paul Street Boys by Ferenc Molnár
20th Century Hungarian Literature
147 books — 191 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
631 books — 896 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