Eumeswil by Ernst JüngerThe Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth PatchenAgainst the Day by Thomas PynchonThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin1984 by George Orwell
Best Anarchist Fiction
103 books — 82 voters
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth PatchenNog by Rudolph WurlitzerMemoirs of a Shy Pornographer by Kenneth PatchenThe Walking-Away World by Kenneth Patchen
Trippy Books
843 books — 897 voters

American Gods by Neil GaimanHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. LovecraftThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,200 books — 1,091 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams1984 by George OrwellDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best Science Fiction
3,651 books — 6,977 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Best Space Opera
1,081 books — 1,788 voters
Dune by Frank Herbert
Excellent Space Opera
1,016 books — 3,643 voters

Anathem by Neal StephensonThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAncillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,208 books — 8,951 voters
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth PatchenMaldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de LautréamontSleepers Awake by Kenneth Patchen
Best Surrealist Literature
263 books — 213 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Reality Warping Fiction
330 books — 170 voters
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,989 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinBlindness by José SaramagoA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction
276 books — 261 voters
The Time Trilogy by Madeleine L'EngleJurgen by James Branch CabellNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Gunslinger by Stephen  King
Best Fantasy Books
1,681 books — 1,993 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Gothic Books of All Time
585 books — 3,503 voters
2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert SheaAnathem by Neal StephensonAgainst the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 6,997 voters

Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyUlysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,043 voters
The Obscene Bird of Night by José DonosoHopscotch by Julio CortázarPiano Stories by Felisberto HernándezLands of Memory by Felisberto HernándezBlow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,304 books — 4,519 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,351 books — 24,668 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,376 voters

Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Plague by Albert CamusNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best French Literature
872 books — 1,573 voters
Hopscotch by Julio CortázarThe Obscene Bird of Night by José DonosoPiano Stories by Felisberto HernándezBlow-Up and Other Stories by Julio CortázarCronopios and Famas by Julio Cortázar
Latin American Fiction
864 books — 1,157 voters

The Forbidden Forest by Mircea EliadeThe Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth PatchenGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonHidden Faces by Salvador DalíCryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
World War II Fiction
1,391 books — 2,020 voters
The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Sacred and the Profane by Mircea EliadePatterns in Comparative Religion by Mircea Eliade
Best Books About Mythology
1,395 books — 2,218 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert  BurtonFinnegans Wake by James Joyce1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiAgainst the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,489 voters
Little Nemo by Winsor McCayDreams by C.G. JungDream I Tell You by Hélène CixousThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. LovecraftThe Absolute Sandman, Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman
best books concerning dreams
418 books — 171 voters

1984 by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezUlysses by James JoyceInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,807 books — 49,785 voters