The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeWolf Hall by Hilary MantelLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Man Booker Prize Winners
53 books — 35 voters

The Quiet American by Graham GreeneParadise of the Blind by Dương Thu HươngThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhNovel Without a Name by Dương Thu Hương
Best Books on Vietnam
210 books — 175 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaI Served the King of England by Bohumil HrabalClosely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Best Czech Books
161 books — 117 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 7,002 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,871 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,809 books — 49,782 voters

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Best Spy Novels
1,287 books — 2,248 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
252 books — 567 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckLord of the Flies by William Golding
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 566 voters
The Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,070 books — 972 voters

The New York Trilogy by Paul AusterMoon Palace by Paul AusterThe Book of Illusions by Paul AusterThe Brooklyn Follies by Paul AusterThe Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
Best Paul Auster Books
25 books — 117 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyLolita by Vladimir NabokovNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,278 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Best Young Adult Books
13,118 books — 80,161 voters

Bắt Trẻ Đồng Xanh by J.D. SalingerGiết con chim nhại by Harper LeeThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHoàng Tử Bé by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Sách cho Teen
55 books — 47 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaIgnorance by Milan KunderaLife is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
Best Fiction of Milan Kundera
12 books — 121 voters

1984 by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
101 books — 479 voters
A Heart So White by Javier MaríasBartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-MatasDistant Star by Roberto BolañoLast Evenings on Earth by Roberto BolañoSenselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 179 voters



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