A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonThe Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,331 books — 26,101 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Guermantes Way by Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel ProustSodom and Gomorrah by Marcel ProustTime Regained by Marcel Proust
Best of Marcel Proust
14 books — 3 voters

The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannJoseph and His Brothers by Thomas MannDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannTonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann and Family
109 books — 18 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyDemons by Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best of Fyodor Dostoevsky
31 books — 108 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Existential Fiction
452 books — 778 voters