De Rerum Natura by David HillstromMr. Cogito by Zbigniew HerbertPan Tadeusz by Adam MickiewiczThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaSelected Poetry and Prose by Stéphane Mallarmé
Best European Poetry
28 books — 11 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail LermontovWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian school curriculum literature
101 books — 22 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisHolidays on Ice by David SedarisWake Up, Sir! by Jonathan AmesIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonWhat I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats by Jack Handey
Best Modern Humor Writing (Slate)
87 books — 23 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerCatch-22 by Joseph HellerUlysses by James JoyceHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Most Confusing Books you ever read?
42 books — 67 voters

1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUbik by Philip K. DickNaked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
...but am I paranoid enough?
20 books — 11 voters
Binti by Nnedi OkoraforKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerWho Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Afrofuturism
199 books — 132 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaI Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Best Czech Books
161 books — 117 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 232 voters

Glamorama by Bret Easton EllisThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeFight Club by Chuck PalahniukAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Dark Satire
161 books — 201 voters


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