The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Perfo... by Peter WeissConversations With Lord Byron On Perversion, 163 Years After ... by Amanda PranteraIsland of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher MooreFlawed Dogs by Berkeley BreathedThe Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin
Best Book Titles
11,368 books — 7,750 voters

IN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN ZERO by Allan C. WeisbeckerLife of Pi by Yann MartelWild by Cheryl StrayedOur Mathematical Universe by Max TegmarkThe Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,857 books — 21,934 voters

The Adventures of Baron Münchausen by Rudolf Erich RaspeLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. FinneyThe Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book by Angela CarterGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Bear Books
183 books — 81 voters

Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyChina Men by Maxine Hong KingstonThe Last Cheater's Waltz by Ellen MeloyThe Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen MeloyBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
The American Frontier
684 books — 154 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Odyssey by HomerThe Arabian Nights by AnonymousThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumMulata by Miguel Ángel Asturias
The Best Fairytales and Retellings
2,795 books — 9,157 voters
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollThe Odyssey by HomerThe Arabian Nights by Laurence HousmanInferno by Dante AlighieriTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Birds
719 books — 105 voters

Great Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeIN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN ZERO by Allan C. WeisbeckerThe Crimes of Love by Marquis de SadeTurtle Diary by Russell Hoban
Books with 1,001 to 5,000 Ratings
1,030 books — 66 voters
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis CarrollThe Odyssey by HomerThe Arabian Nights by Laurence HousmanFairy Tales by Hans Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen
Horse Books/Novels
1,547 books — 700 voters

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Arabian Nights by AnonymousGreat Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Collections of Short Stories
2,891 books — 2,036 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Arabian Nights by Laurence HousmanThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainGreat Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Oceans, Water, Ice
715 books — 171 voters

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Odyssey by HomerThe Arabian Nights by AnonymousInferno by Dante Alighieri
Best Books Ever
75,936 books — 281,880 voters
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryJourney to Ixtlan by Carlos CastanedaA Separate Reality by Carlos CastanedaThe Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos CastanedaThe Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
The Desert
487 books — 88 voters

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
Best Books of the 11th Century
24 books — 112 voters
The Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareGargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 540 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareLe Malade imaginaire by Molière
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 700 voters
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftThe Adventures of Baron Münchausen by Rudolf Erich RaspeThe Crimes of Love by Marquis de SadeFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,008 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,872 voters
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoMulata by Miguel Ángel AsturiasFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesWind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,814 books — 49,784 voters

Ficciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis BorgesA Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
The Best of Jorge Luis Borges
27 books — 35 voters
Water Music by T. Coraghessan BoyleWyvern by A.A. AttanasioLamb by Christopher Moore
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,198 books — 68,030 voters