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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
7,722 books — 14,379 voters
Out by Natsuo KirinoUnder the Skin by Michel Faber
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,291 books — 11,637 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
73 books — 2,016 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
1,238 books — 1,139 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
1,010 books — 2,009 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
7,458 books — 16,248 voters
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
Best Polish Books
578 books — 557 voters

The Beatles Anthology by The BeatlesShakey by Jimmy McDonough
Best Books on Rock and Roll
904 books — 1,285 voters
Shakey by Jimmy McDonough
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,484 books — 1,399 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
633 books — 722 voters

The Counterfeiters by André GideThe Stranger by Albert CamusMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,577 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
778 books — 3,254 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
7,878 books — 49,829 voters
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Best Books of 2008
1,644 books — 6,770 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
7,215 books — 28,374 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
5,378 books — 6,979 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
4,422 books — 8,096 voters
The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Worst Books of All Time
8,120 books — 19,897 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
988 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
78,325 books — 292,055 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
3,517 books — 5,209 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