The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilUlysses by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Most Difficult Novels
594 books — 2,049 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,331 books — 4,619 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakWild Swans by Jung ChangThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Foreign Lands
2,368 books — 2,202 voters

Something Like an Autobiography by Akira KurosawaWild Swans by Jung ChangMaus I by Art SpiegelmanThe Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,293 books — 6,983 voters
Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,465 books — 1,379 voters

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Best Book Covers of 2008
134 books — 100 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Iconic Book Covers
26 books — 39 voters

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingPhantom by Susan KayThe Time Traders by Andre NortonThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsLiar by Justine Larbalestier
Worst Cover Art
435 books — 255 voters
The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees BrennanThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
When Bad Covers Happen to Good Books
213 books — 139 voters

His Dark Materials by Philip PullmanThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyGood Omens by Terry Pratchett
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,541 books — 26,602 voters
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo NerudaPoems New and Collected by Wisława SzymborskaThe World Doesn't End by Charles SimicC.P. Cavafy by Constantinos P. Cavafy
Best Poetry Books
3,028 books — 2,556 voters

The Neverending Story by Michael EndeThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
My Favorite Childhood books
756 books — 404 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,926 books — 3,620 voters

Good Omens by Terry PratchettCatch-22 by Joseph HellerWyrd Sisters by Terry PratchettThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeSmall Gods by Terry Pratchett
Best Humorous Books
4,395 books — 8,025 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerEragon by Christopher PaoliniThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Disappointing Books
2,770 books — 4,606 voters

The Odyssey by HomerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoHamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best European Literature
825 books — 306 voters
Der Vorleser by Bernhard SchlinkDer Baader Meinhof Komplex by Stefan AustMephisto by Klaus MannDer Zauberberg by Thomas MannDoktor Faustus by Thomas Mann
My Country, the Enemy
395 books — 342 voters

Tales of the Unexpected by Roald DahlSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovNight Shift by Stephen  KingThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
Collections of Short Stories
2,909 books — 2,054 voters
Scar Tissue by Anthony KiedisHigh Fidelity by Nick HornbyOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Books on Rock and Roll
898 books — 1,284 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAtonement by Ian McEwanNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiSaturday by Ian McEwan
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,370 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  Harris
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,219 books — 6,122 voters

Steppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeMephisto by Klaus MannDer Untertan by Heinrich Mann
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
985 books — 960 voters
Brisingr by Christopher PaoliniThe Lost Symbol by Dan    Brown
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,638 books — 5,991 voters

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,228 books — 3,937 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Forced to read in school, but hated
323 books — 561 voters


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