The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyGerminal by Émile ZolaThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,720 books — 6,886 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAnimal Farm by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky1984 by George OrwellOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Most memorable books
242 books — 72 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Road by Cormac McCarthyMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,854 books — 22,193 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAtonement by Ian McEwan
Best for Book Clubs
15,113 books — 19,101 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph ConradUlysses by James JoyceThérèse Raquin by Émile ZolaThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
NOT that BBC List
46 books — 27 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,877 books — 26,136 voters

The Notebook by Nicholas SparksThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Love Stories
5,193 books — 9,685 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAlice in Wonderland by Jane Carruth
BBC Book List 2003
68 books — 97 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBeloved by Toni MorrisonA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Best Feminist Books
2,688 books — 3,642 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireLes liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best French Literature
884 books — 1,574 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,889 books — 49,792 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerInferno by Dante Alighieri
Best Middle Ages Books
1,234 books — 1,718 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Weirdest Books Ever
1,184 books — 1,193 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,100 books — 121,973 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceÉcrits by Jacques Lacan
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 364 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Books I Regret Reading
2,299 books — 3,224 voters

Naguib Mahfouz by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Unappreciated Books
4,375 books — 2,210 voters
The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,185 books — 28,364 voters