White Noise by Don DeLilloBright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerneyGalápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Shawl by Cynthia OzickThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,434 voters

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,703 books — 6,872 voters

White Noise by Don DeLillo
Nobel Prize Contenders
77 books — 65 voters
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayDombey and Son by Charles DickensAntic Hay by Aldous HuxleyThe Sound and The Fury / As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerTono-Bungay by H.G. Wells
The Modern Library Classics
235 books — 50 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Children of Men by P.D. JamesThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,748 books — 25,989 voters
Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
Library of America
224 books — 49 voters

The Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerFletch by Gregory McDonaldThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieDame, König, As, Spion by John le CarréThe Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett
Mystery
363 books — 304 voters
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox FordThe Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia OzickThe White Hotel by D.M. ThomasThe Road by Cormac McCarthyOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Saddest Books
491 books — 721 voters

The White Hotel by D.M. ThomasThe Loved One by Evelyn WaughDoktor Faustus by Thomas MannSophie’s Choice by William StyronThe Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
Well-Written Holocaust Books
890 books — 2,882 voters
Winter's Tale by Mark HelprinThe Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia OzickFalling Man by Don DeLilloUnderworld by Don DeLilloBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote
Tales of New York City
1,508 books — 1,217 voters

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Stories For Book Lovers
8,337 books — 8,375 voters

Serpentine  by Thomas Thompson
True Crime
726 books — 607 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Fifties Fiction Favorites
99 books — 113 voters

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave EggersThe Hours by Michael Cunningham
Abandoned Books
1,473 books — 1,465 voters
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,835 books — 21,937 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceOnly Revolutions by Mark Z. DanielewskiPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,107 books — 1,719 voters
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry AdamsCrazy from the Heat by David Lee Roth
Best Memoirs
265 books — 64 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Prestige by Christopher Priest
Best Twists
8,352 books — 8,964 voters
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry AdamsSpeak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovAll Too Human by George  StephanopoulosCrazy from the Heat by David Lee RothDown and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Best Autobiographies
31 books — 9 voters

Cosmos by Carl SaganThe First Three Minutes by Steven WeinbergThe World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy by Timothy Ferris
Cosmology
215 books — 189 voters
Falling Man by Don DeLilloThe 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terr...The 9/11 Report by Sid Jacobson
9/11 Related
250 books — 223 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterV. by Thomas PynchonJoseph and His Brothers by Thomas MannVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Intimidating books I long to read/finish
132 books — 250 voters
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel RichardsonUnderworld by Don DeLilloOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Thickest Books Ever
889 books — 2,489 voters

The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,320 books — 5,839 voters
The Collected Poems by Kenneth KochThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. YeatsA Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan ThomasCollected Poems by W.H. AudenSelected Poems by Delmore Schwartz
Poetry
898 books — 427 voters

In Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganBend Sinister by Vladimir NabokovAda, or Ardor by Vladimir NabokovExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Best Book Titles
11,388 books — 7,819 voters
Harlot's Ghost by Norman MailerIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The 800+ page Gorillaz
459 books — 517 voters


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