A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoCollected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis BorgesHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Modernist Canon
79 books — 13 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Waves by Virginia WoolfThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Great Stream of Consciousness Novels
132 books — 193 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfUlysses by James JoyceThe Waste Land by T.S. EliotTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Modernist Literature
189 books — 66 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiMetamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Best Surrealist Literature
264 books — 213 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Philosophical Fiction
334 books — 565 voters