The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Country Noir
349 books — 314 voters
Dakota Blues by Lynne M. SpreenA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeEthan Frome by Edith Wharton
Midlife Crisis Novels
160 books — 120 voters

The Price of Salt by Patricia HighsmithOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonThe Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerAnnie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Lesbian novels from before 1990
254 books — 116 voters
Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinGo Tell It on the Mountain by James BaldwinTales of the City by Armistead MaupinMaurice by E.M. ForsterDeath in Venice by Thomas Mann
Gay Novels From Before 1990
227 books — 19 voters