Play It As It Lays by Joan DidionBel Canto by Ann PatchettDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinWaiting for God by Simone Weil
Favourite female writers
400 books — 30 voters
The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip José FarmerThe Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
Fencing fiction
155 books — 220 voters

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond RostandMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Nose as main focus
51 books — 34 voters
The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,374 books — 2,590 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyDog Soldiers by Robert  Stone
Favorite Books
14,900 books — 10,477 voters
Dead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Known Unfinished Novels/Series
62 books — 81 voters

Bear and His Daughter by Robert  StoneCarried Away by Alice Munro
Best Short Stories
1,767 books — 1,079 voters
The Captain's Daughter by Alexander PushkinSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Ebony Tower by John FowlesBeing There by Jerzy KosińskiPnin by Vladimir Nabokov
World's Greatest Novellas
727 books — 1,458 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Naked and the Dead by Norman MailerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Great World by David MaloufThe Iliad by Homer
Best War Novels
1,703 books — 1,452 voters
Into a Black Sun by Takeshi Kaikō
Best Books on Vietnam
210 books — 176 voters

The Escoffier Cookbook and Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery by Auguste EscoffierThe French Chef Cookbook by Julia ChildThe Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerLe répertoire de la cuisine by Louis SaulnierHering's dictionary of classical and modern cookery and pract... by richard-hering
Best Cookbooks Ever
548 books — 216 voters
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,434 books — 1,776 voters

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Your Favourite Book of Poetry.
951 books — 665 voters
Lord of Light by Roger ZelaznyDestination by Frank Patrick Herbert
Classic Science Fiction - 1960-1969
304 books — 249 voters

Lord of Light by Roger ZelaznyThis Immortal by Roger ZelaznyDoorways in the Sand by Roger ZelaznyToday We Choose Faces by Roger ZelaznyCoils by Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny (Your favourite)
72 books — 139 voters
The End of Eternity by Isaac AsimovThe Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesThe Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye /... by Raymond ChandlerAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Alliterations
1,183 books — 101 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoRed Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,430 books — 16,263 voters
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Crossing by Cormac McCarthyA Hall of Mirrors by Robert  StoneAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Quality Dark Fiction
2,614 books — 3,386 voters

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Best Graham Greene novels
25 books — 202 voters

The Queen of the Damned by Anne RiceThe Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Best Horror Novels
2,112 books — 5,490 voters
Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffreyGlory Season by David Brin
Best Science Fiction With a Female Protagonist
1,425 books — 3,006 voters

This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
Books with Greek mythology references
508 books — 695 voters
This Immortal by Roger ZelaznyThe Mummy by Anne Rice
Sexiest Immortal Males of All Time
831 books — 1,435 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Most Difficult Novels
595 books — 2,051 voters
Theaetetus by PlatoThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaTen Plays by EuripidesThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusCivilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Best books for humanities degree
408 books — 93 voters

This Immortal by Roger ZelaznyThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwaySundiver by David Brin
Heroes & Adventures
561 books — 188 voters
The Naked and the Dead by Norman MailerCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerTao Te Ching by Lao TzuOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,411 books — 123,429 voters


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