Antigone by SophoclesOresteia by AeschylusOedipus the King by SophoclesPhiloctetes by Sophocles
Ancient Greek Tragedies
31 books — 7 voters
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Better Than Food Books
210 books — 41 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradHunger by Knut HamsunThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,749 books — 6,904 voters
Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiSurvival in Auschwitz by Primo LeviNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenNight by Elie Wiesel
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,353 books — 7,087 voters

A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Best Christmas Holiday Books
701 books — 671 voters
Candide by Voltaire
Best Books of the 18th Century
376 books — 1,010 voters

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Best African American Books
1,052 books — 1,153 voters
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh
Best Art and Art History Books
804 books — 315 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
519 books — 2,294 voters
Dubliners by James JoyceThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Irish Literature
633 books — 722 voters

The Fastidious Assassins by Albert CamusThe Art of War by Sun TzuThe Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Penguin Great Ideas
121 books — 99 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,086 books — 623 voters

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Chinese Literature
323 books — 153 voters
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Books I Read At University/College
1,010 books — 142 voters

Les Justes by Albert CamusSalomé by Oscar WildeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsAntigone by Sophocles
Best Plays Ever
856 books — 1,132 voters

The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
Best Children's Books
5,356 books — 6,951 voters
Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Art of War by Sun TzuAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Most influential books under 100 pages
263 books — 952 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessNight by Elie Wiesel
World's Greatest Novellas
728 books — 1,460 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Best Short Story Collections
1,593 books — 885 voters

Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanA Hunger Artist by Franz KafkaIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Short Stories of All Time
614 books — 385 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
103 books — 155 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Tales of New York City
1,718 books — 1,288 voters
Night by Elie Wiesel
Well-Written Holocaust Books
911 books — 2,946 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 585 voters
1984 by George Orwell
Politics
509 books — 515 voters

Hunger by Knut HamsunThe Stranger by Albert CamusNo Exit by Jean-Paul SartreThe Plague by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
381 books — 285 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Existential Fiction
459 books — 784 voters

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,220 books — 3,279 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Cult Classics
1,576 books — 2,129 voters


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