Golden Boys by Sonya HartnettThe Golden Age by Joan LondonThe Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Kenneally
Stella Prize 2015
12 books — 20 voters

Days Without End by Sebastian BarryThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Secret Scripture by Sebastian BarryAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroDay by A.L. Kennedy
Costa/Whitbread Novel Award Winners
94 books — 89 voters
The Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhDog Soldiers by Robert  StoneHighways to a War by Christopher J. KochThe Outside Lands by Hannah Kohler
Best Literature About the Vietnam War
331 books — 638 voters

Birdsong by Sebastian FaulksThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienGenerals Die in Bed by Charles Yale HarrisonAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett
The Realities of War
97 books — 28 voters
Fatelessness by Imre KertészThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaLife and Fate by Vasily GrossmanOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters

If This Is a Man • The Truce by Primo LeviThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Pianist by Władysław SzpilmanThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Essential Books on the Holocaust
200 books — 198 voters
The Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreenePale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonCat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
747 books — 1,815 voters

The Inheritors by William Golding
Best Pre-History Fiction
196 books — 371 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Funniest Novels of All Time
1,422 books — 2,337 voters

The Glass Canoe by David  IrelandGolden Boys by Sonya HartnettThe Golden Age by Joan LondonBring Larks and Heroes by Thomas KeneallyBreath by Tim Winton
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
95 books — 47 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Winter Queen by Boris AkuninRape by Joyce Carol OatesSaturday by Ian McEwan
Books that Made You Cry!
3,357 books — 7,961 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyI Am Legend by Richard MathesonThe Pesthouse by Jim CraceBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,769 books — 26,027 voters
Götz and Meyer by David Albahari
Best South Slavic Literature
363 books — 306 voters

The Gift of Stones by Jim CraceBeing Dead by Jim CraceHarvest by Jim Crace
Best of Jim Crace
16 books — 8 voters
I Am Legend by Richard MathesonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
SF Masterworks
203 books — 723 voters

Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph E. StiglitzThe Social Contract, a Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,... by Jean-Jacques RousseauFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. HeilbronerThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Best Economics Books
451 books — 520 voters
Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph E. StiglitzBlowback by Chalmers JohnsonThe Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher HitchensRogue States by Noam Chomsky
American Foreign Policy
462 books — 273 voters

Life and Fate by Vasily GrossmanOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDeath and the Penguin by Andrey KurkovThe White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Post WWII Soviet Lit
57 books — 74 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Lucky Jim by Kingsley AmisThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Humorous Books
4,347 books — 7,949 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyDeath and the Penguin by Andrey KurkovAtonement by Ian McEwanNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,370 voters
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German Authors
606 books — 705 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of 2006
984 books — 746 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Literary Historical Fiction
1,140 books — 1,088 voters

Property by Valerie MartinHome Fire by Kamila ShamsieWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Orange Prize for Fiction Winners
30 books — 130 voters
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
Most Under-rated Science Fiction
2,087 books — 2,186 voters

The Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe Ghost Road by Pat BarkerIndependence Day by Richard Ford
Best Books of 1995
431 books — 191 voters
London Fields by Martin AmisThe Russia House by John le CarréA History of the World in 10½  Chapters by Julian Barnes
Best Books of 1989
378 books — 229 voters


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