Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
Most influential books under 100 pages
251 books — 923 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
714 books — 1,446 voters

You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Books That Made You Cry
1,606 books — 3,279 voters
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Great Short story collections by men
84 books — 76 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 — 270 voters

The Sea by John BanvilleThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,989 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 — 567 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
2,897 books — 2,041 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
1,170 books — 1,112 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
31,701 books — 120,670 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
9,842 books — 22,013 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
7,899 books — 49,791 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
1,704 books — 6,877 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
375 books — 1,008 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 — 705 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 — 543 voters