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The Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,753 books — 14,424 voters
Out by Natsuo KirinoUnder the Skin by Michel Faber
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,301 books — 11,669 voters

The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannRabbit Angstrom by John UpdikeA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 985 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaOscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyLast Orders by Graham Swift
Booker Prize Winners
62 books — 2,001 voters

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Man Booker 2010 longlist
13 books — 46 voters
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Books that left you happy--and depressed because hardly another book lived up to it
691 books — 450 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Lincoln Lawyer by Michael ConnellyThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Poet by Michael ConnellyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Detective Fiction
1,244 books — 1,143 voters
Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch AlbomMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesSiddhartha by Hermann HesseDemian / Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Popular Books that Annoy You
1,012 books — 2,008 voters

Notwendige Streitgenossen by Georg MiggelThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoPresumed Innocent by Scott Turow
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,479 books — 16,385 voters
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
Best Polish Books
578 books — 558 voters

The Beatles Anthology by The BeatlesShakey by Jimmy McDonough
Best Books on Rock and Roll
908 books — 1,287 voters
Shakey by Jimmy McDonough
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,501 books — 1,423 voters

The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassDr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Best European Literature
828 books — 307 voters
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Best Irish Literature
635 books — 723 voters

The Counterfeiters by André GideThe Stranger by Albert CamusMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
867 books — 1,578 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiOut by Natsuo KirinoSouth of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
779 books — 3,259 voters

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Stranger by Albert CamusLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,875 books — 49,842 voters
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Best Books of 2008
1,647 books — 6,768 voters

The Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,272 books — 28,373 voters
Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer by Michael EndeJim Knopf und die Wilde 13 by Michael EndeThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Best Children's Books
5,417 books — 7,028 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleSmashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed by Lance CarbuncleHigh Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Best Humorous Books
4,449 books — 8,316 voters
The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Worst Books of All Time
8,115 books — 19,898 voters

Halbzeit by Martin WalserThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaAmerika by Franz Kafka
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
987 books — 966 voters
Notwendige Streitgenossen by Georg MiggelJohn's Wife by Robert CooverNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Best Books Ever
78,959 books — 294,034 voters

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil MillingtonThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleStill Life with Woodpecker by Tom RobbinsThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Books that Make you Laugh
3,547 books — 5,232 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxAmerican Pastoral by Philip Roth
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books — 951 voters