Proust by Samuel BeckettMarcel Proust and Deliverance from Time by Germaine BréePaintings in Proust by Eric KarpelesProust's Way by Roger ShattuckWho's Who in Proust by Patrick Alexander
Books on Proust
59 books — 24 voters
Paradise Lost by John MiltonNox by Anne CarsonThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria RilkeFour Quartets by T.S. EliotThe Book of Psalms, KJV by Anonymous
Best Spiritual Poetry Book
198 books — 101 voters

History of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesHomage to Catalonia by George OrwellThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanDispatches by Michael HerrThe Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
History as Literature
727 books — 535 voters
In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. ValenteMortals by Norman RushDeaf Sentence by David LodgeBlack Water Rising by Attica LockeI Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Best Unappreciated Books
4,358 books — 2,204 voters

Reading Rilke by William H. GassIs That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Ev... by David Bellos
Translation Theory Reading List
36 books — 22 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonGilead by Marilynne Robinson
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,221 books — 5,217 voters

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaMiss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million by Nathanael WestAnimal Farm by George OrwellHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
World's Greatest Novellas
714 books — 1,442 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMortals by Norman RushSabbath's Theater by Philip RothGilead by Marilynne Robinson
Modern-day Classics
364 books — 192 voters

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Best Books You've Probably Never Read
618 books — 411 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliHistory of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesThe Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Politics
491 books — 460 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayMortals by Norman RushNetherland by Joseph O'Neill
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
529 books — 1,888 voters
Anam Cara by John O'DonohueGilead by Marilynne RobinsonTao Te Ching by Lao TzuContemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton
Books for the Contemplative Life
447 books — 211 voters

Chuang Tzu by ZhuangziThe Symposium by PlatoMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Plague by Albert Camus
Best Philosophy Introductions
223 books — 281 voters
The Plague by Albert CamusThree Novels by Samuel BeckettIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Existential Fiction
449 books — 767 voters

Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia ChildThe Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerLet's Cook It Right by Adelle Davis
Best Cookbooks
1,439 books — 1,106 voters

In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. ValenteAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterIlium by Dan Simmons
Myth and Folktale Retellings
628 books — 580 voters

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,716 voters
The Iliad by HomerThe Oresteia by AeschylusThe Odyssey by HomerBeowulf by UnknownTales from Ovid by Ovid
Best Books About Mythology
1,395 books — 2,218 voters

In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. ValenteIn the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterPalimpsest by Catherynne M. ValenteWonder Tales by Marina Warner
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,797 books — 9,158 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. FarrellThe Death of Vishnu by Manil SuriMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Best Book Titles
11,482 books — 7,865 voters
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard FariñaThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonChanging Places by David LodgeThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Campus Days
400 books — 296 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LlosaSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,196 books — 11,297 voters
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Bad Girl by Mario Vargas LlosaThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayMortals by Norman RushParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Love Stories
5,172 books — 9,633 voters


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