The Song of Igor’s Campaign by Vladimir NabokovLa Chanson de Roland by Unknown
Best Books of the 12th Century
62 books — 152 voters
The Day of Wrath by Sever GansovskyDie Aufgabe by Péter ZsoldosHard to Be a God by Arkady StrugatskyThe Garin Death Ray by Aleksey Nikolayevich TolstoyFiasco by Stanisław Lem
Best European Science Fiction Books
256 books — 207 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelKitchen by Banana YoshimotoFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggDona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge AmadoThe Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
Food-Related Fiction
855 books — 601 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyWe by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Greatest Russian Novels of All Time
196 books — 498 voters

The House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
863 books — 1,155 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,302 books — 4,492 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters
1984 by George OrwellOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,768 voters