A Decade of Hit Books

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesLevels of Life by Julian BarnesA History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian BarnesThe Noise of Time by Julian BarnesA History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes
Ranking Julian Barnes
11 books — 13 voters
Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovLolita by Vladimir NabokovAda, or Ardor by Vladimir NabokovPnin by Vladimir NabokovInvitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Nabokov Novel
19 books — 26 voters

Barchester Towers by Anthony TrollopeThe Warden by Anthony Trollope
Best Trollope or Trollopian Reads
27 books — 17 voters
Dark Money by Jane MayerThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam JohnsonWashington by Ron ChernowA Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,670 books — 14,484 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady UdallInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Novels Set in Arizona
530 books — 199 voters
The Moral Animal by Robert WrightAmerican Cipher by Matt FarwellM Train by Patti SmithOur Oriental Heritage by Will DurantSPQR by Mary Beard
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,467 books — 5,186 voters

American Cipher by Matt FarwellWar by Sebastian JungerDispatches by Michael HerrBurmese Days by George OrwellThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Conflict-Zone Journalism
286 books — 145 voters
American Cipher by Matt Farwell
Best War on Terror Books
74 books — 59 voters

American Cipher by Matt Farwell
Terrorism, 9/11, "War on Terror" (non-fiction)
263 books — 98 voters
American Cipher by Matt Farwell
Veteran Recommendations
905 books — 479 voters

Circles of Hell by Dante AlighieriSocrates' Defence by PlatoThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall of Icarus by OvidCirce and the Cyclops by Homer
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 213 voters
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov1984 by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph HellerA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Larry McCaffery: The 20th Century's Greatest Hits (English Language)
106 books — 50 voters

The Noise of Time by Julian BarnesMy Struggle by Karl Ove KnausgårdGone with the Mind by Mark Leyner
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2016 Book Preview I - Spring and Summer
93 books — 201 voters
Moonglow by Michael ChabonThe Nix by Nathan HillSwing Time by Zadie SmithHeroes of the Frontier by Dave EggersA Gambler's Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2016 Book Preview
91 books — 165 voters

The Pigeon Tunnel by John le CarréThe Undoing Project by Michael LewisTime Travel by James GleickThe Voyeur's Motel by Gay TaleseThe Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
The Millions' Most Anticipated, Too: The Great Second-Half 2016 Nonfiction Book Preview
43 books — 27 voters
Fortune Smiles by Adam JohnsonM Train by Patti SmithBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThree Moments of an Explosion by China MiévilleSatin Island by Tom McCarthy
Best Books of 2015 That Are NOT Erotica
151 books — 47 voters

Suttree by Cormac McCarthyThe Adventures of Augie March by Saul BellowLove in the Ruins by Walker PercyThe Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game by Patricia HighsmithThe Complete Works by Michel de Montaigne
Books Which NR Ought to Read But Has Not Read YET
81 books — 43 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertWonder Boys by Michael ChabonLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 311 voters

The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaNetherland by Joseph O'NeillOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Books of 2008
1,647 books — 6,775 voters
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael ChabonSpook Country by William GibsonFalling Man by Don DeLilloThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Best Books of 2007
1,124 books — 999 voters

Against the Day by Thomas PynchonThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightBlack Swan Green by David MitchellTheft by Peter Carey
Best Books of 2006
997 books — 757 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionA Feast for Crows by George R.R. MartinTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best Books of 2005
885 books — 650 voters

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellJust Kids by Patti SmithThe Lonely Polygamist by Brady UdallFreedom by Jonathan FranzenThe Big Short by Michael Lewis
Best Books of 2010
1,578 books — 2,478 voters
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Best Books Published in 2013
3,587 books — 7,158 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelParrot and Olivier in America by Peter CareyAmerican Rust by Philipp MeyerInherent Vice by Thomas PynchonThe City & the City by China Miéville
Best Books of 2009
1,773 books — 6,933 voters
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary MantelOrfeo by Richard PowersThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellThe Cairo Affair by Olen SteinhauerThe Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Best Books of 2014 That Are NOT Erotica
524 books — 375 voters

The Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Histories by HerodotusHistory of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Best Books on Ancient Greek History and Literature
364 books — 203 voters
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James BaldwinThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Books by LGBTQ People of Color
509 books — 147 voters

The Old Testament by AnonymousThe New Testament by Anonymous
"...if _______ is not the book version of everything horrible and unjust that the patriarchy stands for, I do not know what is."
162 books — 95 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Transgressive Fiction
892 books — 971 voters


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