Carpenter's Gothic by William GaddisManservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-BurnettVox by Nicholson Baker
The Dialogue Novel
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Women Around the World
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Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Winners
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Great Women Authors
1,228 books — 334 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovMrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Trial by Franz KafkaUlysses by James Joyce
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 486 voters
Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering
Oh, Canada!
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The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara
Open Letter Books
125 books — 49 voters
The Shell Collector by Anthony DoerrDelicate Edible Birds and Other Stories by Lauren GroffPraying Drunk by Kyle MinorBrief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben FountainLike You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
Contemporary Short Story Collections
551 books — 335 voters

The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher JansmaIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoCollected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters
Battleborn by Claire Vaye WatkinsWatering Heaven by Peter Tieryas Liu
Debut Short Story Collections
84 books — 105 voters

Museum Pieces by Elizabeth TallentThe Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont
Underdog Literature: 2012
237 books — 76 voters
Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene BertinoWatering Heaven by Peter Tieryas Liu
Collections of Short Stories
2,894 books — 2,039 voters

Watering Heaven by Peter Tieryas Liu
Best books of October, 2012
108 books — 241 voters
Demonology by Rick MoodyLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Age of Wire and String by Ben MarcusTime's Arrow by Martin Amis
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters