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American Gods by Neil GaimanNeverwhere by Neil GaimanPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
889 books — 492 voters
The Blade Itself by Joe AbercrombiePrince of Thorns by Mark LawrenceA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinLast Argument of Kings by Joe AbercrombieBefore They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
The Grimdarks
486 books — 1,206 voters

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiThe King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories by Robert W. ChambersGalveston by Nic PizzolattoThe Stranger by Albert CamusTime is a Flat Circle by Melissa Milazzo
HBO's True Detective
114 books — 117 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Night to Remember by Walter LordAlive by Piers Paul Read
Non-fiction Disaster Books
329 books — 331 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 — 172 voters
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthySiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Fall by Albert CamusHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Better Than Food Books
210 books — 41 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
761 books — 1,836 voters
Framed & Hunted by Edward WilliamsMean Spirited by Nick RobertsThe Last Guest House by Caroline MitchellThe Standoff by Scott BladeWayward Spirits by Wendy Wang
Cult fction
363 books — 212 voters

I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by Mark DeryThe Rest Is Noise by Alex RossPsychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester BangsThe Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip Slater
Cultural Criticism Classics
4 books — 4 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 202 voters

The Rest Is Noise by Alex RossThe Classical Style by Charles RosenThe Missing Strad by Gerald GaulThe Romantic Generation by Charles RosenWhat to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland
Classical Music: Nonfiction
313 books — 89 voters
The Willows by Algernon BlackwoodThe Elementals by Michael McDowellThe House Next Door by Anne Rivers SiddonsThe Other by Thomas TryonThe Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and Underappreciated Horror
810 books — 414 voters


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