The Overstory by Richard Powers
Best Books of 2018
1,648 books — 2,958 voters
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Best Books 2019
1,128 books — 1,315 voters

The Method by Isaac Butler
Best Books of 2022
1,553 books — 1,862 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Famished Road by Ben OkriThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Booker Prize Winners
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The Illuminations by Arthur RimbaudThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
259 books — 351 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
779 books — 3,259 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
644 books — 3,632 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 — 630 voters

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCandide by Voltaire
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,011 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
333 books — 707 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
190 books — 544 voters
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkAnnihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Best Books of 2014
3,567 books — 6,531 voters

The Great Derangement by Amitav GhoshThe Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Best Books of 2016
1,824 books — 2,783 voters
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Best Books of 2019
1,384 books — 1,956 voters

The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang
Best Books of 2021
1,440 books — 1,627 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 353 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
9,839 books — 22,439 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
1,732 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 — 5,120 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
1,753 books — 6,909 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
1,542 books — 2,728 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
1,876 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 — 3,951 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
2,313 books — 3,224 voters

It by Stephen  KingThe Shining by Stephen  KingDracula by Bram StokerMisery by Stephen  KingThe Ruins by Scott        Smith
Best Horror Novels
2,131 books — 5,523 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
3,073 books — 2,608 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
3,475 books — 6,783 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
3,300 books — 11,657 voters


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