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
283 books — 386 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorite Translated Literature
1,029 books — 497 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiShōgun by James Clavell
Best Books on Asia
994 books — 817 voters

Arabian Sands by Wilfred ThesigerWinging It  by Lia RussA Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
Best Travel Writing
317 books — 218 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories
1,761 books — 1,046 voters

The Book of Afternoon Tea by Lesley MackleyPersuasion by Jane AustenThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonTea with Jane Austen by Kim   WilsonAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
All About Tea
111 books — 24 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Beach by Alex Garland
Desert Islands
129 books — 150 voters
পথের পাঁচালী by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyayশঙ্খনীল কারাগার by Humayun Ahmedপুতুলনাচের ইতিকথা by Manik BandopadhyayChader Pahar by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyayশঙ্কু সমগ্র by Satyajit Ray
Books you gotta read being a Bengali!
288 books — 190 voters



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