Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,995 voters
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Pastures of Steinbeck
40 books — 19 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
252 books — 567 voters
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Best Southern Gothic Literature
340 books — 507 voters

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
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718 books — 1,449 voters
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
HBO's True Detective
112 books — 115 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
100 best novels - modern library
165 books — 109 voters

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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74 books — 11 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Reddit Recommendations
577 books — 761 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 583 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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37 books — 629 voters

Ubik by Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best of Philip K. Dick
93 books — 409 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Cormac McCarthy Books
17 books — 182 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovPnin by Vladimir NabokovDespair by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Nabokov Novel
19 books — 26 voters
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
10 books — 261 voters