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
867 books — 1,135 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
616 books — 391 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 — 42 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
759 books — 1,149 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
8,151 books — 27,109 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskySophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
Best Philosophical Fiction
354 books — 721 voters
The Four Jacks Annotated, Uncensored by Robert PavchickAnimal Farm by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeThe Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Best Satires
317 books — 466 voters

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonAnimal Farm by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Modest Proposal by Jonathan SwiftThe Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Best Satirical Fiction
153 books — 134 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
594 books — 538 voters



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