Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
Most influential books under 100 pages
256 books — 933 voters
Tonio Kröger by Thomas MannMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García MárquezRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour by J.D. SalingerLord of the Flies by William GoldingDeath in Venice by Thomas Mann
World's Greatest Novellas
726 books — 1,457 voters

You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Books That Made You Cry
1,606 books — 3,289 voters
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Great Short story collections by men
85 books — 77 voters

Imagine Me Gone by Adam HaslettNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Human Stain by Philip Roth
Barnes and Noble Future Classic
53 books — 7 voters
The Shipping News by Annie ProulxThe Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
99 books — 272 voters

The Sea by John BanvilleThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Booker Prize Winners
69 books — 2,006 voters
The Sea by John BanvilleThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesAmsterdam by Ian McEwanThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
252 books — 568 voters

You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam HaslettNine Stories by J.D. SalingerSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaDubliners by James Joyce
Collections of Short Stories
2,908 books — 2,053 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best British and Irish Literature
1,175 books — 1,113 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,361 books — 123,405 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroOn the Road by Jack KerouacAtonement by Ian McEwanYou Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam HaslettThe Sea by John Banville
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,841 books — 22,294 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,890 books — 49,805 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,748 books — 6,901 voters

Candide by VoltaireThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLes liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareL'avare by MolièreTartuffe by MolièreParadise Lost by John MiltonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Books of the 17th Century
326 books — 706 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareRichard III by William ShakespeareTitus Andronicus by William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Best Books of the 16th Century
192 books — 545 voters