Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Bone People by Keri HulmeThe Luminaries by Eleanor CattonOscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyThe Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Booker Prize Winners
63 books — 1,993 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
592 books — 2,047 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBeloved by Toni MorrisonAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Great American Novel
672 books — 1,090 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Best Books by Female Authors
1,365 books — 467 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBlindness by José Saramago
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,825 books — 26,074 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,246 books — 3,419 voters

Snow Country by Yasunari KawabataThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio MishimaBlack Rain by Masuji Ibuse
Japanese Literature
310 books — 388 voters
Snow Country by Yasunari KawabataThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio MishimaBlack Rain by Masuji Ibuse
Best Japanese Books
773 books — 3,249 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Catch-22 by Joseph HellerLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Reddit Top 200 Books - list 1
99 books — 12 voters
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellLolita by Vladimir NabokovUlysses by James JoyceThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Penguin Modern Classics
412 books — 489 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazCloud Atlas by David  MitchellNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,371 voters
1984 by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Science Fiction
3,728 books — 7,159 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Commonly Loved Books I Hate
389 books — 524 voters
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Best Horror Books of the 21st Century
487 books — 1,249 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1920s
765 books — 1,130 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonWhite Noise by Don DeLilloV. by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 583 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Plague by Albert CamusHowl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Popular Penguins
200 books — 102 voters
1984 by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodPerdido Street Station by China Miéville
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,534 books — 24,905 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLolita by Vladimir NabokovSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,886 books — 49,784 voters
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,387 books — 1,516 voters

An Angel at My Table by Janet FrameThe Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine MansfieldThe Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael    KingThe Bone People by Keri HulmeThe Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Books By New Zealand Authors
874 books — 368 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,992 books — 121,434 voters


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