We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Books with Unreliable Narrators
501 books — 489 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoySchindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoShantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,874 books — 7,003 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessHaunted by Chuck PalahniukFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,189 books — 11,274 voters

Watchmen by Alan             MooreV for Vendetta by Alan             MooreGhost World by Daniel Clowes
Required Reading Graphic Novels
1,173 books — 2,010 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Beginning
716 books — 649 voters

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsCatch-22 by Joseph HellerA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books Ever
75,966 books — 282,007 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Women in Cages - Collected Stories by Vilas SarangA House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Best Indian Fiction Books
914 books — 2,421 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerWatchmen by Alan             MooreFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,809 books — 49,782 voters