Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,242 books — 1,648 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
267 books — 231 voters
The Lover by Marguerite DurasJustine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de SadeFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John ClelandThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioThe 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
Classic Erotic Literature
51 books — 25 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceHistoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline RéageFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Literary Smut
145 books — 107 voters
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiOut by Natsuo KirinoBattle Royale by Koushun TakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
An Unusual Japanese Book List
219 books — 179 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,269 books — 11,599 voters