Bewilderment by Richard PowersThe Promise by Damon GalgutLight Perpetual by Francis SpuffordThe Fortune Men by Nadifa MohamedNo One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
2021 Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 40 voters
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Booker Prize 2019 Longlist
13 books — 44 voters

Milkman by Anna BurnsThe Long Take by Robin   RobertsonThe Overstory by Richard Powers
The 2018 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 91 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Broom of the System by David Foster WallaceAt Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Postmodern Genius
506 books — 583 voters

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31,267 books — 118,689 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceUlysses by James JoyceDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,868 books — 7,002 voters
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The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
747 books — 1,812 voters

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The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,178 books — 11,131 voters
Ulysses by James Joyce
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
922 books — 2,387 voters

Trainspotting by Irvine WelshA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Contemporary Cult Fiction
491 books — 452 voters