The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas HardyThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 410 voters
The House of Mirth by Edith WhartonWhite Fang by Jack London
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
465 books — 855 voters

Broken Monsters by Lauren BeukesWelcome to Lovecraft by Joe HillBlindsight by Peter WattsMy Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Best Horror Books of the 21st Century
483 books — 1,248 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareKing Henry IV, Part 1 by William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
100 books — 1,238 voters

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Iliad by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Best of Epic Poetry
123 books — 201 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Best Books Ever
75,720 books — 281,534 voters

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel RichardsonDream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,008 voters
Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 143 voters

Know My Name by Chanel MillerBlack Box by Shiori Itō
#MeToo Memoirs
21 books — 20 voters
Whore of New York by Liara Roux
Sex Worker Memoirs
196 books — 107 voters

Minor Characters by Joyce JohnsonGo by John Clellon HolmesOn the Road by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergBig Sur by Jack Kerouac
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters
Barbara by Osamu TezukaBuddha, Vol. 1 by Osamu TezukaBlack Jack, Vol. 1 by Osamu Tezuka
Seinen Manga
182 books — 35 voters

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund FreudThe Art of Loving by Erich FrommI'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. HarrisThe Road Less Traveled by M. Scott PeckThe Varieties of Religious Experience by William  James
Greatest Psychology Books
793 books — 1,333 voters

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Contemporary British Novels
506 books — 430 voters
Juliet, Naked by Nick HornbyA Long Way Down by Nick HornbyAbout a Boy by Nick HornbyHow to Be Good by Nick HornbyFunny Girl by Nick Hornby
Best of Nick Hornby
47 books — 17 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Sea, the Sea by Iris MurdochThe Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters
Stray Bullets, Vol. 1 by David LaphamFatale, Vol. 1 by Ed BrubakerStray Bullets by David Lapham
Crime Comics & Graphic Novels
233 books — 66 voters

Use of Weapons by Iain M. BanksSlan by A.E. van VogtGod Emperor of Dune by Frank HerbertThe Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. HamiltonXenocide by Orson Scott Card
Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
554 books — 478 voters
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Black biography
236 books — 61 voters

Pearl S. Buck by Peter Conn
Literary biographies
477 books — 95 voters
The Stand by Stephen        KingIt by Stephen        King’Salem’s Lot by Stephen        KingDifferent Seasons by Stephen        KingThe Drawing of the Three by Stephen        King
Best of Stephen King
178 books — 3,873 voters

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Best Books of the 11th Century
24 books — 112 voters
The Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinDune by Frank HerbertHyperion by Dan SimmonsStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Science Fiction
3,644 books — 6,900 voters

The Gunslinger by Stephen        King
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,142 books — 25,668 voters
Saint Maybe by Anne TylerUse of Weapons by Iain M. BanksWaiting by Ha JinXenocide by Orson Scott CardOut by Natsuo Kirino
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,676 voters

Idoru by William GibsonNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Diamond Age by Neal StephensonGhost in the Shell by Masamune ShirowMirrorshades by Bruce Sterling
Best of Cyberpunk
370 books — 1,180 voters
The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 954 voters

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite YoungThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingAlmanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon SilkoI Hotel by Karen Tei YamashitaPilgrimage 1 by Dorothy M. Richardson
Large Experimental Books by Women
87 books — 71 voters
All-Star Superman, Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison
Best of Superman
302 books — 245 voters


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