Ulysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
590 books — 2,045 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 501 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
102 books — 483 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyA Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,731 books — 10,408 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,129 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
905 books — 1,255 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,135 books — 3,678 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónLa casa de los espíritus by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Libros en Español
729 books — 651 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
868 books — 1,162 voters