The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Best Books Under 200 Pages
951 books — 423 voters
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Memoirs Published in the 1960s
36 books — 4 voters

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
589 books — 2,044 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Irish Literature
632 books — 720 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Writers who committed suicide
451 books — 284 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
DIFFICULT BUT REWARDING
158 books — 68 voters

The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Poetic Novels and Novellas
33 books — 34 voters
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Prose poetry
97 books — 51 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Waves by Virginia WoolfThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Great Stream of Consciousness Novels
132 books — 193 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All Time Favorite Romance Novels
5,602 books — 12,550 voters

It Happened One Autumn by Lisa KleypasMarried by Morning by Lisa Kleypas
Love/Hate Relationships
807 books — 1,421 voters

Mine Till Midnight by Lisa KleypasWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëLove in the Afternoon by Lisa KleypasIt Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas
Favorite Historical Romance Novels
3,417 books — 6,031 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLes Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyVenus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-MasochThe Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,877 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Waves by Virginia WoolfOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAbsalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,787 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniUnclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,847 books — 22,048 voters

The Golden Notebook by Doris LessingThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathA Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Best Feminist Books
2,555 books — 3,546 voters

Franny and Zooey by J.D. SalingerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Best Female Lead Characters
4,866 books — 5,903 voters