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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
3,475 books — 6,783 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 — 1,841 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
3,066 books — 2,599 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
4,008 books — 26,680 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 — 225 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
538 books — 291 voters

Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesDead Souls by Nikolai GogolBlindness by José SaramagoCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,709 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
9,838 books — 22,432 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)
1,876 books — 1,758 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
776 books — 233 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleBlindness by José SaramagoInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 985 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Darkest Books of All Time
1,315 books — 1,734 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)
537 books — 1,908 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
1,876 books — 7,000 voters

Paradise Lost by John MiltonThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,705 books — 13,257 voters