The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,087 books — 623 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cult Classics
1,576 books — 2,130 voters

Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
894 books — 973 voters
1984 by George OrwellDracula by Bram StokerA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shining by Stephen  KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Quality Dark Fiction
2,619 books — 3,554 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dystopia!
1,228 books — 2,772 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
3,279 books — 11,615 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryDivergent by Veronica RothBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,972 books — 26,484 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Feminist Fiction
1,518 books — 2,682 voters