The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWatership Down by Richard  AdamsA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Highbrow Fantasy Books
419 books — 624 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 Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
463 books — 107 voters
The Tartar Steppe by Dino BuzzatiBlow-Up and Other Stories by Julio CortázarThe Apocryphal Gospels by Bart D. EhrmanHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradPedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Jorge Luis Borges' Personal Library
82 books — 14 voters