The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorite Translated Literature
1,029 books — 498 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,068 books — 971 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelPurge by Sofi OksanenThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
A year of reading the world
277 books — 51 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtNight by Elie WieselEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
2,101 books — 1,950 voters

My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena FerranteVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
Women in Independent Publishing
87 books — 22 voters
This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. MoragaBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaBlack Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill CollinsSister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-PerrySister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Feminist Books by Women of Color
170 books — 39 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiIce by Anna KavanNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUlysses by James Joyce
Avant Garde books
114 books — 71 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
519 books — 584 voters

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
961 books — 570 voters
The Mussel Feast by Birgit VanderbekeStone in a Landslide by Maria BarbalBeside the Sea by Véronique OlmiThe Dead Lake by Hamid IsmailovNext World Novella by Matthias Politycki
Peirene Press
56 books — 29 voters



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