Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthyPop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Country Noir
345 books — 310 voters
Waste by Eugene Marten
Dark Literature
272 books — 174 voters

Lush Life by Richard PriceThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Best Books Set in New York City
380 books — 394 voters
The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettPop. 1280 by Jim ThompsonAmerican Tabloid by James Ellroy
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
736 books — 907 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Best Books Ever
76,885 books — 286,114 voters
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoCrash by J.G. Ballard
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,881 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Historical Fiction
7,478 books — 25,671 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Italy
984 books — 502 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonInherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
10 books — 261 voters
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Best Paul Auster Books
25 books — 117 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,712 books — 6,884 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,917 books — 121,229 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Best Action-Adventure Novels
2,576 books — 2,761 voters