The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dark Academia
363 books — 1,492 voters

Fingersmith by Sarah WatersPossession by A.S. ByattTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAffinity by Sarah WatersAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Best neo-victorian novels
117 books — 206 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters1984 by George OrwellBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleAbout a Boy by Nick Hornby
London Calling
1,230 books — 645 voters

1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovFingersmith by Sarah WatersWonder Boys by Michael Chabon
David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
100 books — 311 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García MárquezLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesLa ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas Llosa
Latin American Fiction
864 books — 1,157 voters

I Am Spock by Leonard NimoyI Am Not Spock by Leonard NimoyUp Till Now by William Shatner
Where No Man Has Gone Before
32 books — 34 voters
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersFingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Hours by Michael CunninghamThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,772 books — 2,167 voters

Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerTrainspotting by Irvine WelshThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Transgressive Fiction
868 books — 966 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Shining by Stephen  King
Best Books Ever
76,232 books — 283,492 voters