The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2016
1,248 books — 4,490 voters
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberThe Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodBlindness by José SaramagoMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 583 voters
Sophie’s Choice by William StyronLes Misérables by Victor HugoDead Souls by Nikolai GogolCancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Darkest Books of All Time
1,302 books — 1,718 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Edible Woman by Margaret AtwoodThe Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
Best Canadian Literature
2,332 books — 1,145 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyPan Wołodyjowski by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Best Sweeping Epics about Places
82 books — 75 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownAngels & Demons by Dan    BrownThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books I Regret Reading
2,299 books — 3,225 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOn Writing by Stephen  King
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,239 books — 8,069 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieBlindness by José SaramagoThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz AitmatovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Magical Realism
442 books — 639 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieBlindness by José Saramago
Best Magic Realism
162 books — 319 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,214 books — 11,346 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Tortured Heroes in Fiction
782 books — 797 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Most Poetic Book Titles
1,995 books — 891 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Indian Fiction Books
918 books — 2,425 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Everyone's Read It But Me
774 books — 4,322 voters
Blindness by José Saramago
White as the Driven Snow
1,763 books — 256 voters

The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Books that Make you Laugh
3,501 books — 5,076 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieDaughter of Fortune by Isabel AllendeKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,307 books — 4,544 voters
Rats Saw God by Rob ThomasThe Silver Pigs by Lindsey DavisThe Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert RankinA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Dance of the Voodoo Handbag by Robert Rankin
There Ought to be a Band
2,425 books — 1,104 voters

Character You Most Want to Sleep With
4,183 books — 5,440 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëEmma by Jane AustenGreat Expectations by Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Best British and Irish Literature
1,172 books — 1,112 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Foreign Lands
2,359 books — 2,195 voters
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyQuo Vadis by Henryk SienkiewiczSolaris by Stanisław LemWard No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters


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