The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 500 voters
Taras Bulba by Nikolai GogolThe Foundation Pit by Andrei PlatonovHadji Murád by Leo TolstoyThe White Guard by Mikhail BulgakovMy Childhood by Maxim Gorky
Best Russian Literature
513 books — 2,282 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Son by Philipp MeyerThe Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,688 books — 14,216 voters
The Fishermen by Chigozie ObiomaThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan MahajanThe Girls by Emma Cline
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2016
176 books — 196 voters
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
178 books — 240 voters

Dream of Ding Village by Yan LiankeLenin's Kisses by Yan LiankeRed Sorghum by Mo YanThe Garlic Ballads by Mo YanKramp by Gao Xingjian
Fiction from the Chinese Mainland
132 books — 137 voters
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Best Books by Female Authors
1,364 books — 467 voters

Fantasia by Assia DjebarVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichVisitation by Jenny ErpenbeckThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Women in Translation
924 books — 305 voters

Laurus by Eugene VodolazkinЕлтышевы by Roman SenchinБелое на черном by Rubén David González GallegoIce by Vladimir SorokinThe Time by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Russian Booker Finalists
108 books — 30 voters

Dream of Ding Village by Yan LiankeFor a Song and a Hundred Songs by Liao Yiwu
Banned CHINA Books
29 books — 54 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,878 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,792 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyFantasia by Assia DjebarThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothWhite Noise by Don DeLillo
Candidates for the 2012 Nobel
33 books — 31 voters

Sobre héroes y tumbas by Ernesto SabatoOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoHopscotch by Julio Cortázar
Latin American Fiction
865 books — 1,159 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus
Best French Literature
873 books — 1,574 voters