The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. LovecraftThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. WellsThe Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,219 books — 1,158 voters
Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert1984 by George OrwellThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Science Fiction
3,801 books — 7,404 voters

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaCollected Stories by Vladimir NabokovDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories
1,767 books — 1,079 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareParadise Lost by John MiltonKing Lear by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters
Candide by VoltaireThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinMicromegas by Voltaire
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeBartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleA Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur RimbaudWoyzeck by Georg Büchner
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,748 books — 6,901 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami2666 by Roberto BolañoThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael ChabonFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserAusterlitz by W.G. Sebald
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,839 books — 22,300 voters

The Complete Stories by Franz KafkaLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienFour Quartets by T.S. EliotThe Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,888 books — 49,804 voters