The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Secret Magdalene by Ki LongfellowNefertiti by Michelle    MoranCleopatra's Daughter by Michelle    Moran
Awesome Women of the Ancient World
483 books — 983 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best California Books
628 books — 241 voters

The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Liars' Club by Mary KarrHamlet by William ShakespeareFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesSelected Essays from by Jonathan Franzen
Headmaster's House Library - DFW
22 books — 1 voter
Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
599 books — 2,064 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
518 books — 582 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,121 books — 1,750 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 174 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyNot Okay by Brett Axel
Dark Literary Fiction
138 books — 55 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusBlindness by José SaramagoThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
381 books — 284 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
100 books — 275 voters
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsCat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee WilliamsDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerOur Town by Thornton WilderLong Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
90 books — 58 voters


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