The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Dirty Version by Medina FarisThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
327 books — 143 voters
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerneyA Fan's Notes by Frederick ExleyRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesRock Springs by Richard FordCathedral by Raymond Carver
Best of Vintage Contemporaries
55 books — 38 voters

The Fight by Norman MailerKing of the World by David RemnickUnforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. WardThe Sweet Science by A.J. LieblingFat City by Leonard Gardner
Best Books on Boxing and Boxers
207 books — 109 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisNausea by Jean-Paul SartreOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
500 Essential Cult Books
236 books — 42 voters

The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonDouble Indemnity by James M. CainThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Getaway by Jim Thompson
Alan Guthrie's 200 Noirs
118 books — 34 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Best of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
Best of the Pulps
381 books — 203 voters

Daddy Cool by Donald GoinesDevil Dolls by Joseph NazelThe Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim by Iceberg SlimHarlem Hit by Roosevelt MalloryBlack Vendetta by Matt Gattzden
Blaxploitation
138 books — 6 voters
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyAmerican Tabloid by James EllroyThe Cold Six Thousand by James EllroyBlood's a Rover by James EllroyL.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
The Best in Prose: High Caliber Crime
142 books — 68 voters

The Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Godfather by Mario PuzoLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Manfiction
2,214 books — 553 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerMatilda by Roald DahlBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,432 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,519 books — 1,226 voters
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert L. MooreThe Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellIron John by Robert  BlyHe by Robert A. JohnsonThe Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
A Circle of Men
119 books — 31 voters


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