The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesRichard Yates by Tao LinAfter Dark by Haruki Murakami
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9,838 books — 22,451 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettOthello by William Shakespeare
Best Plays Ever
883 books — 1,136 voters

Othello by William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareThe Supermale by Alfred JarryDiary of a Mad Old Man by Jun'ichirō TanizakiIn the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami
The Absolute Madman
125 books — 32 voters
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207 books — 152 voters

Star Wars by Matthew Woodring StoverThe Illustrated Star Wars Universe by Kevin J. Anderson
Best Star Wars Books
470 books — 1,311 voters
Easy Street by Ron PerlmanThe Disaster Artist by Greg SesteroCrab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses by Chris Nashawaty
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849 books — 280 voters

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Best Actor/Actress Bios
36 books — 8 voters
The Ark Sakura by Kōbō AbeAfter Dark by Haruki MurakamiThe Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa by Yukichi FukuzawaChildhood Years by Jun'ichirō TanizakiConfessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
Best Japanese Books
779 books — 3,259 voters

Twelfth Night by William ShakespeareDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William Shakespeare
Best Play Ever
523 books — 458 voters
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. AndrewsThe Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1 by Kazuo UmezzPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Books That Gave Me Nightmares
271 books — 485 voters

Modern French Theatre by Michael  BenediktMaldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de LautréamontExploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred JarryThe Gas Heart by Tristan TzaraThe Poet Assassinated by Guillaume Apollinaire
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
136 books — 107 voters
Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Fiction Novels Featuring Yokai
110 books — 112 voters

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustRising Up And Rising Down by William T. VollmannQuicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Books to Read in Another Life
123 books — 33 voters

The Katurran Odyssey by David Michael Wieger
Best Anthropomorphic Animal Books
432 books — 318 voters
Taipei by Tao Lin
Autism in Fiction
501 books — 542 voters

Taipei by Tao LinWolf in White Van by John Darnielle
Best Fiction With Disfigured/Disabled Leads
1,173 books — 1,062 voters
Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Post Office by Charles BukowskiLife and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo YanValis by Philip K. DickA Good School by Richard Yates
The View from Fifty-One
75 books — 29 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsRichard Yates by Tao LinThe Hairy Ape by Eugene O'NeillUrien's Voyage by André Gide
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1,404 books — 259 voters
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeRichard Yates by Tao Lin
Computers in Literature
246 books — 245 voters

The Katurran Odyssey by David Michael Wieger
Books I will make my children read
93 books — 27 voters
Urien's Voyage by André GideMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. LewisBilly Budd, Sailor by Herman MelvilleThe Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
Nautical Novels
437 books — 333 voters

Cryptonomicon by Neal StephensonEurope Central by William T. Vollmann
World War II Fiction
1,486 books — 2,220 voters

Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
Theological Weird Fiction
501 books — 303 voters
Thérèse Raquin by Émile ZolaThe Counterfeiters by André Gide
Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)
540 books — 1,912 voters

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. RiisLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe People of the Abyss by Jack LondonThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
Underclass
378 books — 132 voters
Lunch Poems by Frank O'HaraPaterson by William Carlos WilliamsPictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos WilliamsThe Banquet Years by Roger ShattuckThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,440 books — 1,778 voters

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiGo by John Clellon HolmesThe First Third by Neal CassadyThe Happy Birthday of Death by Gregory CorsoPictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Beat Lit
236 books — 182 voters
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
Different Takes on Religion & Spirituality
1,432 books — 1,193 voters


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