The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Best Biographies
1,693 books — 3,061 voters
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorDistant Star by Roberto Bolaño
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 180 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
515 books — 2,287 voters
The Peregrine by J.A. BakerThus Were Their Faces by Silvina OcampoFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Rider on the White Horse by Theodor StormThe Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Better Than Food Books
210 books — 41 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesNotes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Weirdest Books Ever
1,184 books — 1,193 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
11 books — 262 voters

Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
96 books — 412 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareOthello by William ShakespeareThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
103 books — 1,240 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Most Difficult Novels
592 books — 2,046 voters
Watchmen by Alan             MooreBone by Jeff Smith
Best Graphic Novels
3,455 books — 6,776 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,254 books — 11,571 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,264 books — 8,070 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Postmodern Novels
101 books — 110 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,037 books — 3,944 voters

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
Best Plays Ever
856 books — 1,132 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Bildungsroman book
366 books — 329 voters
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,997 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasUlysses by James JoyceWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
749 books — 1,822 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,230 books — 122,706 voters

The Holy Bible by AnonymousThe Complete Works by William Shakespeare
The Most Influential Books
1,489 books — 5,293 voters

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Books with short chapters
139 books — 76 voters