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
1,704 books — 6,876 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
9,829 books — 22,009 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
14,784 books — 18,655 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
3,763 books — 26,018 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
5,179 books — 9,640 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
2,541 books — 3,538 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
873 books — 1,573 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
7,899 books — 49,787 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerInferno by Dante Alighieri
Best Middle Ages Books
1,224 books — 1,708 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Weirdest Books Ever
1,192 books — 1,187 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
31,679 books — 120,628 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceÉcrits by Jacques Lacan
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 363 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Books I Regret Reading
2,299 books — 3,225 voters

Naguib Mahfouz by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Unappreciated Books
4,366 books — 2,204 voters
The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,368 voters