The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLife of Pi by Yann MartelWater for Elephants by Sara GruenA Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Best Canadian Literature
2,335 books — 1,146 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Writers who committed suicide
457 books — 285 voters

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend WarnerThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Door by Magda SzabóThe Slynx by Tatyana TolstayaDown Below by Leonora Carrington
NYRB Classics: Books by Women
143 books — 49 voters
Being and Time by Martin HeideggerPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantTruth and Method by Hans-Georg GadamerThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Essential Continental Philosophy
75 books — 24 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilUlysses by James Joyce
Books to Read in Another Life
123 books — 33 voters

Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu MiaojinLast Words from Montmartre by Qiu MiaojinConfessions of a Mask by Yukio MishimaLie With Me by Philippe BessonIf Not, Winter by Sappho
LGBTQ literature in English translation
253 books — 64 voters
Robert Mapplethorpe by Paul MartineauRobert Mapplethorpe by Frances TerpakTom of Finland XXL by Tom of FinlandIn the Shadow of the American Dream by David WojnarowiczAlvin Baltrop by Alvin Baltrop
Arts and Homosexuality
78 books — 6 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Samuel R. Delany's literary pillars
103 books — 25 voters
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry   MitchellThe Sluts by Dennis CooperCity of Night by John RechyWeight of the Earth by David WojnarowiczWe Both Laughed in Pleasure by Lou Sullivan
artfag canon
118 books — 9 voters

The Driver's Seat by Muriel SparkHôtel Splendid by Marie RedonnetBerg by Ann QuinGreat Expectations by Kathy AckerEden, Eden, Eden by Pierre Guyotat
Dennis Cooper favorite novels (2022)
66 books — 3 voters
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques RousseauOpen City by Teju ColeSpeak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
If You Like W.G. Sebald
118 books — 18 voters


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