How I Came to Know Fish by Ota PavelWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekThe Elephant by Sławomir MrożekLife is a Dream by Gyula KrúdyThe Cowards by Josef Škvorecký
Penguin Central European Classics
10 books — 11 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books — 271 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
62 books — 1,991 voters
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Complete Poems by Emily DickinsonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf
72 books — 6 voters

The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeLuster by Raven LeilaniDetransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
2021 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist
16 books — 108 voters
Escape from the Antarctic by Ernest ShackletonThe Cobra's Heart by Ryszard KapuścińskiAcross the Empty Quarter by Wilfred ThesigerSnakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants by HerodotusFrom The Meadows of Gold by al-Mas'udi
Penguin Great Journeys
20 books — 4 voters