A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaA Spool of Blue Thread by Anne TylerAll My Puny Sorrows by Miriam ToewsA Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan PamukTrigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
Anticipated 2015 Literary Fiction
195 books — 545 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Literary Fiction of "(y)our time"
202 books — 102 voters

Puhdistus by Sofi Oksanen
Finnish Fiction
388 books — 126 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresEleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
Latin American Fiction
864 books — 1,157 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyLord of the Flies by William GoldingAnthem by Ayn RandCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,751 books — 25,984 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonSophie’s World by Jostein GaarderThe Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,244 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyAnthem by Ayn RandLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Libertarian Books
385 books — 288 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Dystopics, Utopics, & Apocalyptics
386 books — 92 voters
Contemporary British Novels
505 books — 388 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakGreat Expectations by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerPersuasion by Jane Austen
Very Favorite Books
663 books — 469 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Books Ever
76,258 books — 283,638 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,042 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakMe Before You by Jojo MoyesMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultA Walk to Remember by Nicholas SparksThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Books That Had Me Bawling My Eyes Out
858 books — 1,597 voters

Maitreyi by Mircea EliadePânza de păianjen by Cella SerghiLa Medeleni [vol. 1-3] by Ionel TeodoreanuLorelei by Ionel TeodoreanuCavalerii florii de cireş by Constantin Chiriță
Best Romanian Literature
331 books — 474 voters

The Fountainhead by Ayn RandPerfume by Patrick SüskindThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,724 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieThe Surgeon by Tess GerritsenThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoDeception Point by Dan    Brown
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,206 books — 2,294 voters

Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Social and Political Satires
499 books — 492 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerRoom at the Top by John BraineUndeniably Yours by Becky WadeMaigret at the Gai-Moulin by Georges Simenon
Walk a Mile in My Shoes
36 books — 10 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Oxford World's Classics
257 books — 77 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters

Shantaram by Gregory David RobertsThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiEast, West by Salman RushdieLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
India: Fiction
319 books — 322 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferLost in a Good Book by Jasper FfordeThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Books about Books
1,384 books — 1,519 voters


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