Richard III by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
104 books — 1,246 voters
Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Red and the Black by StendhalLes Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,574 voters

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood AndersonNine Stories by J.D. SalingerComplete Stories by Dorothy ParkerGeometry of Love by John CheeverThe Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Collections of Short Stories
2,896 books — 2,041 voters
Oblivion by David Foster WallaceThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenOld School by Tobias WolffThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThen We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,188 books — 28,368 voters

Possession by A.S. ByattOld School by Tobias WolffEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Stories For Book Lovers
8,407 books — 8,484 voters
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Hours by Michael CunninghamDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,133 books — 10,098 voters

Old School by Tobias Wolff
Boarding School Stories
966 books — 1,020 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,786 voters