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The Overstory by Richard Powers
Best Books of 2018
1,653 books — 2,958 voters
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Best Books 2019
1,127 books — 1,313 voters

The Method by Isaac Butler
Best Books of 2022
1,551 books — 1,860 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Famished Road by Ben OkriThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Booker Prize Winners
69 books — 2,004 voters

The Illuminations by Arthur RimbaudThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
259 books — 350 voters
Snow Country by Yasunari KawabataA Personal Matter by Kenzaburō ŌeThe Silent Cry by Kenzaburō ŌeForbidden Colors by Yukio MishimaSome Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Best Japanese Books
778 books — 3,253 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëDracula by Bram StokerThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Gothic Books of All Time
634 books — 3,567 voters
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 629 voters

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCandide by Voltaire
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareDiscourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René DescartesSecond Treatise of Government by John Locke
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters

The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareUtopia by Thomas MoreThe Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 545 voters
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkAnnihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Best Books of 2014
3,570 books — 6,474 voters

The Great Derangement by Amitav GhoshThe Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Best Books of 2016
1,827 books — 2,781 voters
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Best Books of 2019
1,385 books — 1,955 voters

The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang
Best Books of 2021
1,441 books — 1,626 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 354 voters

Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of 2004
690 books — 249 voters
Death with Interruptions by José SaramagoAriel by Sylvia PlathSalonica, City of Ghosts by Mark MazowerColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki MurakamiThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,843 books — 22,345 voters

The Refugees by Viet Thanh NguyenWe Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi CoatesNo Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
Best Books of 2017
1,737 books — 3,082 voters
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaA Higher Form of Killing by Diana Preston
Best Books of 2015
3,108 books — 5,119 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,749 books — 6,906 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Feminist Fiction
1,521 books — 2,686 voters

China in Ten Words by Yu HuaThe Master of Go by Yasunari KawabataSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan DidionNight by Elie WieselDay by Elie Wiesel
Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction
2,561 books — 3,335 voters
Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerHistory of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,875 books — 7,000 voters

Akira, Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro OtomoUzumaki by Junji ItoDeath Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi OhbaBlade of the Immortal, Volume 1 by Hiroaki Samura
Best Manga Book Ever
1,255 books — 3,946 voters
Evermore by Alyson NoelLeft Behind by Tim LaHayeBy the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne PetersHate List by Jennifer BrownBliss by Lauren Myracle
Books I Regret Reading
2,306 books — 3,225 voters

It by Stephen KingThe Shining by Stephen KingDracula by Bram StokerMisery by Stephen KingThe Ruins by Scott Smith
Best Horror Novels
2,116 books — 5,501 voters
Ariel by Sylvia PlathAriel by Sylvia PlathThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriInferno by Dante AlighieriHowl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Best Poetry Books
3,032 books — 2,592 voters

Akira, Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro OtomoBlack Hole by Charles BurnsDeath Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi OhbaThe Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil GaimanWatchmen by Alan Moore
Best Graphic Novels
3,457 books — 6,778 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisAlmost Transparent Blue by Ryū MurakamiThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksForbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,281 books — 11,619 voters


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