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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 890 voters
Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas BernhardThe Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich BöllSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Trial by Franz KafkaPerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
975 books — 958 voters

2666 by Roberto BolañoLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
Hip Opinions
313 books — 115 voters
Cujo by Stephen KingBlindness by José SaramagoThe Collector by John FowlesThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerPerfume by Patrick Süskind
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,250 books — 11,558 voters

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannFour Letters of Love by Niall WilliamsAs It Is In Heaven by Niall Williams
Best Irish Literature
633 books — 722 voters
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,037 books — 2,660 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasEast of Eden by John SteinbeckWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,995 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Great Victorian Romance to Daydream About
45 books — 80 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëTess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas HardyJude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Best 19th Century Classic
121 books — 27 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,353 books — 15,958 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,055 books — 121,787 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai GogolThe Overcoat by Nikolai GogolThe Nose by Catherine Cowan
Best Russian Literature
514 books — 2,284 voters

The Assault by Harry MulischTwee vrouwen by Harry MulischThe Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
The best Dutch literature
414 books — 387 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezRosemary’s Baby by Ira LevinPapillon by Henri Charrière
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,363 books — 1,776 voters

Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes
Best Books of the 12th Century
62 books — 151 voters
Phèdre by Jean Racine
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftCandide by VoltaireRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLes liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,009 voters
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,720 books — 6,885 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezHunger by Knut HamsunThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaGoing After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Darkest Books of All Time
1,302 books — 1,717 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
737 books — 997 voters
The Blue Fox by Sjón
Icelandic Literature - Past and Present
92 books — 61 voters

Interview with the Vampire by Anne RiceRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare1984 by George OrwellPerfume by Patrick SüskindDracula by Bram Stoker
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,563 books — 18,682 voters
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Best Books 1978
233 books — 59 voters

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertLolita by Vladimir NabokovDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerMoney by Martin AmisIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 311 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Books I'd like to read in 2012
101 books — 15 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
1001+ or- books to read before i die
38 books — 29 voters
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond RadiguetMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertGerminal by Émile Zola
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,574 voters

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesCloud Atlas by David MitchellKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,367 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienAmong the Missing by Dan ChaonWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
127 books — 226 voters


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