Blankets by Craig ThompsonWatchmen by Alan             MooreThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiGhost World by Daniel ClowesDeath Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba
Best Graphic Novels
3,458 books — 6,778 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,122 books — 1,819 voters

Crow by Ted HughesCollected Poems by Philip LarkinLove Is a Dog from Hell by Charles BukowskiNo me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo by José Emilio PachecoCollected Poems by W.H. Auden
Best Poetry Books
3,033 books — 2,586 voters
1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBlindness by José SaramagoBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,983 books — 26,537 voters

Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters
Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoEl llano en llamas by Juan RulfoLos pasos de López by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Mexican Literature
393 books — 221 voters

The Double by José Saramago
Doppelgängers
176 books — 121 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Writers who committed suicide
458 books — 288 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyAtonement by Ian McEwanNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,842 books — 22,332 voters

Ways of Dying by Zakes MdaThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeWaiting for the Barbarians by J.M. CoetzeeThe Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,822 books — 1,706 voters
Ways of Dying by Zakes MdaWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinBeauty and Sadness by Yasunari KawabataThe Toy Collector by James Gunn
Great Underrated and Obscure Books
777 books — 234 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Darkest Books of All Time
1,312 books — 1,729 voters

Pan by Knut HamsunA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
535 books — 1,889 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,999 voters