Annie on My Mind by Nancy GardenThe Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. DanforthKeeping You a Secret by Julie Anne PetersHer Name in the Sky by Kelly QuindlenAsh by Malinda Lo
Lesbian teen fiction
521 books — 726 voters
Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'ConnorWise Blood by Flannery O'ConnorJoe by Larry Brown
The Belled Buzzard - Reading List
92 books — 10 voters

Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. VaughanNo Normal by G. Willow WilsonRat Queens, Vol. 1 by Kurtis J. WiebeSaga, Volume 4 by Brian K. VaughanSex Criminals, Vol. 1 by Matt Fraction
Best Comics & Graphic Novels of 2014
219 books — 379 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Postmodern Novels
101 books — 110 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerMan Alone by Jack RemickFight Club by Chuck PalahniukSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Postmodern cult classics
90 books — 118 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 585 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Help by Kathryn StockettA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Recommended Historical Fiction
3,804 books — 3,873 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanTHE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR by Ahmed AlshuwaikhatThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Best Medieval History Books
830 books — 390 voters
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
598 books — 2,056 voters