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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
Fitzcarraldo Editions
149 books — 48 voters
Jesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonTenth of December by George Saunders
Best Short Story Collections
1,600 books — 908 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Nobel Prize Contenders
79 books — 70 voters
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Best Modern Short Story Collections of the 21st Century
48 books — 39 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Vonnegut's Best
37 books — 630 voters
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Queer Adult Fiction by Authors of Color
156 books — 44 voters

The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik
Random House Spring 2021 Preview
30 books — 11 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,097 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,434 books — 1,615 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovSiddhartha by Hermann HesseEast of Eden by John SteinbeckGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Penguin Modern Classics
416 books — 491 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
4,007 books — 26,684 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Nautical Tales
750 books — 403 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertThe Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego García
Desert Fantasy
167 books — 174 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
761 books — 1,835 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Lolita by Vladimir NabokovWatchmen by Alan MooreA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 584 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyFoundation by Isaac AsimovSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,760 books — 25,706 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOmensetter's Luck by William H. GassGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Most Difficult Novels
598 books — 2,063 voters
Jesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond CarverThe Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Collections of Short Stories
2,929 books — 2,071 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingUlysses by James Joyce
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,703 books — 13,258 voters
Shōgun by James Clavell
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,876 books — 7,000 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Books That Exceeded Your Expectations
15,629 books — 17,687 voters
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
132 books — 235 voters

Shōgun by James Clavell
Best Historical Fiction
7,984 books — 26,555 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Southern Literature
1,385 books — 2,606 voters

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Best Fantasy World
1,699 books — 2,092 voters
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,688 books — 26,788 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Best Books Ever
78,649 books — 293,041 voters