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A Room of One's Own by Virginia WoolfThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxWhy I Write by George OrwellBooks v. Cigarettes by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Penguin Great Ideas
121 books — 93 voters
The Dutch House by Ann PatchettThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfFirekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline BoulleyBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books
171 books — 27 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
893 books — 1,200 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

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
7,920 books — 26,341 voters
Black Sun by Rebecca RoanhorseThe Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham JonesThe Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-HallRace to the Sun by Rebecca RoanhorseThe Book of Koli by M.R. Carey
2020 Locus Recommended Reading List
100 books — 6 voters

The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckEmpire of the Sun by J.G. BallardThe Vagrants by Yiyun LiThe Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China by Lu XunTo Live by Yu Hua
The Best Chinese Fiction Books of the Last Century
20 books — 4 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakHeart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Russian (Soviet 1917-1991) Literature
201 books — 269 voters

Grass by Sheri S. TepperThe Father, The Son, and The Bigfoot Spirit by J Logan ArnoldOn Destiny by Aileen ErinThe Rookie by Scott SiglerLight Bringer by Pierce Brown
Most Under-rated Science Fiction
2,151 books — 2,464 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDune by Frank Patrick Herbert1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Science Fiction
3,844 books — 7,693 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,352 books — 4,678 voters
The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeThe Quincunx by Charles PalliserThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonLean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Best Unappreciated Books
4,391 books — 2,289 voters


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