The Naked Eye by Yōko TawadaSofia Petrovna by Lydia ChukovskayaThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelRevenge by Yōko Ogawa
Women in Translation
924 books — 305 voters

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
1,706 books — 1,556 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Best Books by Female Authors
1,363 books — 466 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersBeloved by Toni MorrisonOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,231 books — 5,216 voters

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekFrom the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus
Europe Minus Men and English
856 books — 225 voters

Esther's Inheritance by Sándor MáraiBartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-MatasXorandor by Christine Brooke-RoseHoles by Louis SacharThe Stand by Stephen  King
What we've read so far in...2014
9,387 books — 2,043 voters
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorPossession by A.S. ByattMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de BeauvoirWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Great Women Authors
1,228 books — 334 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersMetamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Outsider by Albert Camus
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 487 voters
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
100 books — 105 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienPrince Caspian by C.S. LewisJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Horse as Character
258 books — 63 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallacePale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence DurrellHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 143 voters

The Civil War by Shelby FooteFrom Dawn to Decadence by Jacques BarzunTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Power Broker by Robert A. CaroStalingrad by Antony Beevor
History as Literature
727 books — 535 voters

Louis XIV and the French Monarchy by Andrew LosskyThe Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac BabelThe Unknown Lenin by Richard PipesHitler and Stalin by Alan BullockThe Great Terror by Robert Conquest
Rising Up and Rising Down
81 books — 27 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensLes Misérables by Victor HugoDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,812 voters


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