Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamThe Chrysalids by John WyndhamStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,771 books — 26,030 voters
White Teeth by Zadie SmithThe World According to Garp by John IrvingThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,998 voters

Tales Of Pirx The Pilot by Stanisław LemPrimeval and Other Times by Olga TokarczukSnow White and Russian Red by Dorota MasłowskaJestem nudziarą by Monika SzwajaDom na klifie by Monika Szwaja
Best Polish Books
577 books — 554 voters
1984 by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,521 books — 24,785 voters

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous HuxleyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,816 books — 120,960 voters
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best of Banned and Challenged Books
214 books — 277 voters

Maus I by Art SpiegelmanThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneThis Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz BorowskiMedaliony by Zofia NałkowskaThe Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
Well-Written Holocaust Books
893 books — 2,889 voters