The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Cozy Literature
55 books — 1 voter
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. LovecraftThe Road by Cormac McCarthy1984 by George OrwellBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Bleakest works of Literature
28 books — 2 voters

Song of Myself by Walt WhitmanThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanMusashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Upbeat Literature
29 books — 1 voter

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerUlysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
586 books — 2,043 voters
The Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Odyssey by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
World's Greatest Epics
204 books — 132 voters