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The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 by Rich Horton
Award-nominated Asian SFF writers
36 books — 22 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry FieldingUlysses by James Joyce
Thickest Books Ever
895 books — 2,495 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyBlindness by José SaramagoThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,311 books — 3,593 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskySelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai GogolNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
501 books — 2,310 voters

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen RussellThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai GogolDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Story Collections
1,606 books — 928 voters
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Books I Regret Reading
2,313 books — 3,221 voters

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Lesser Known Authors
3,971 books — 3,377 voters
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Best New Author Debuts
426 books — 615 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittStiff by Mary RoachGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,417 books — 8,206 voters
Anything He Wants by Richard WeemsThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaSelected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton ChekhovThe Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Collections of Short Stories
2,975 books — 2,094 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Iliad by Homer
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,248 books — 11,534 voters
Beowulf by Seamus HeaneyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best British and Irish Literature
1,185 books — 1,120 voters

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Books With Unforgettable Characters
9,523 books — 8,761 voters
The Aeneid by Virgil
Best Books About Ancient Rome
759 books — 1,149 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
266 books — 372 voters
The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian AndersenNight by Elie WieselDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerBlindness by José Saramago
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,231 books — 3,982 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Odyssey by HomerWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Ever
79,413 books — 296,027 voters
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlThe Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,654 books — 18,676 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Stranger by Albert CamusOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,881 voters