Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Plays Ever
856 books — 1,132 voters

The Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose BierceBartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Best Short Stories of All Time
611 books — 384 voters
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel ProustThe Lover by Marguerite DurasThe Ogre by Michel TournierLa carte et le territoire by Michel HouellebecqDreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine
Prix Goncourt Laureates
64 books — 41 voters

I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesThe Twelve Caesars by SuetoniusPompeii by Robert   Harris
Best Books About Ancient Rome
741 books — 1,091 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
7,755 books — 26,000 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Philosophical Fiction
342 books — 642 voters
Glamorama by Bret Easton EllisThe Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Satires
306 books — 367 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Modest Proposal by Jonathan SwiftAnimal Farm by George OrwellCandide by VoltaireCampusland by Scott  Johnston
Best Satirical Fiction
145 books — 119 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Great Short Short Books
583 books — 519 voters



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