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
589 books — 2,043 voters

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
German Classics
227 books — 151 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Philosophical Fiction
318 books — 559 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books on Loneliness
514 books — 495 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
449 books — 767 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
976 books — 959 voters
The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1,170 books — 2,727 voters