The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles DickensThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Best Known Unfinished Novels/Series
62 books — 81 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Ulysses by James JoyceIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Style as Text
251 books — 128 voters

1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDune by Frank Herbert
Best Social Science Fiction
519 books — 333 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,894 books — 2,037 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusBlindness by José SaramagoThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLord of the Flies by William Golding
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
376 books — 281 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 922 voters