Ulysses by James JoyceThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerStory of the Eye by Georges BatailleTractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,130 voters
The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. ThompsonThe Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 by Eric J. HobsbawmThe Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del CastilloPor el bien del imperio (HISTORIA) by Josep FontanaThe Idea of History by R.G. Collingwood
Best History Books
3,718 books — 3,755 voters

Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesBlow-Up and Other Stories by Julio CortázarWill You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond CarverHistorias de cronopios y de famas by Julio CortázarThe Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Collections of Short Stories
2,897 books — 2,041 voters
Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHopscotch by Julio CortázarUlysses by James JoyceAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,784 voters

Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoFarabeuf by Salvador ElizondoLa feria by Juan José ArreolaLas batallas en el desierto by José Emilio PachecoEl apando by José Revueltas
35 novelas mexicanas
35 books — 25 voters
Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Great Short Short Books
580 books — 514 voters